“A hacker received a 30 month in prison sentence for creating a botnet and a charge of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. 30-year old Joshua Schichtel had pleaded guilty to building the 72,000 computer net in 2009 as a service to customers who would ask him to infect computers with various types […]
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Woops! Guild Wars 2 Accounts
“It may be time to gird your loins and beef up your passwords again, as yet another online game’s security has been compromised. Guild Wars 2 has received more than 11,000 support requests for hacking, but it appears that the game itself wasn’t targeted. Rather, ne’er-do-wells gained passwords from other sources like fan sites, and […]
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