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Resident Evil 8 Village Enemy Screenshots Leak!
UPDATE – Following the publication of the article below, it has since come our attention that the hacking group has now leaked the entire plot of Resident Evil 8 including the ending. I haven’t looked for it, because I don’t want to know it, but the cat is definitely out…
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Intel Rocked by Huge 20GB Data Breach
No company is ever happy when a major data breach occurs. Not only from the point of view of it potentially revealing any plans they have in the pipeline, but also the fact that it may contain information that, in the wrong hands, could prove very devastating. Yesterday afternoon, however,…
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Nintendo Doubles Estimate For Account Security Breaches
You may recall that just over a month ago, Nintendo confirmed that around 160,000 user accounts had seen their security breached. While the exact source of the hack wasn’t confirmed, the only thing we were told at the time was that it hadn’t come directly from Nintendo but rather (more…
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Nintendo 64, GameCube, & Wii Source Code has Been Stolen!
Are in the market for some kind of knock-off system featuring masses of games from Nintendo’s recent (ish) consoles? Then rejoice, because in a report via Screenrant, it has been found that the original source code for the Nintendo 64, GameCube and Wii console have all leaked and are reportedly…
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AMD GPU Turned into Data Stealing Radio Transmitter
It’s certainly been a weird and wonderful week when it comes to unusual concepts and designs looking to (hypothetically) steal your data. For example, you may recall we recently reported on a concept that could potentially allow files to be stolen from your PC using the vibration of your system…
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AMD Confirms Some of its GPU Hardware Data was Stolen!
While there is still no news on AMD’s ‘Big Navi’ graphics card, they are still expected (all going well) to release at some point this year. It seems, however, that something may have come along that’s causing them a few issues. In a report via TechPowerUp, AMD has confirmed that…
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NASA Discloses Security Breach Discovered in October
NASA Security Breach The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is the latest victim to reveal a security breach. Informing their employees to a memo (via SpaceRef), there has been a possible compromise of servers back in October. Their cybersecurity personnel have begun investigating since October 23 and is still…
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Twitter Confirms ‘Unusual Traffic’ May Be Hacking Attempt
Twitter Confirms ‘Unusual Traffic’ May Be Hacking Any major organisation such as Twitter is clearly going to be a very tempting target for people who want to try and misuse the internet. It wouldn’t, for example, to suggest that throughout the year, sites such as YouTube, Google, Yahoo, Facebook and…
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Dell Issues Password Reset After Cyber Attack
Dell Issues Password Reset After Cyber Attack Despite their somewhat waning popularity in recent years, Dell is still one of the biggest major PC and laptop manufacturers out there. As such, their website has many people with a registered account who sign up for news, technical support or perhaps just…
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Uber fined £385,000 For UK Customer Data Breach
Uber fined £385,000 For UK Customer Data Breach In 2016, Uber was hit by a pretty major data attack. Hackers were able to obtain the personal details of around 2.7 million UK customers following a successful breach. The breach, however, was not solely based on UK customers with various other…
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Adult Gaming Website Reportedly Hacked
Adult Gaming Website Reportedly Hacked Before we get into the details of this story, I’m going to need to ask you to refrain from pulling any faces or laughing. Yes, we all know that the internet is full of adult material. Some suggest that around 30% of all data on…
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Yahoo Agree To Pay $50m To 2014 Hack Victims
Yahoo Agree To Pay $50m To Hack Victims While Yahoo is perhaps not the most prominent name on the internet any more, that doesn’t mean that they haven’t been a prime target for many hackers. For example, you may recall back in 2013 where it was found that nearly every users…
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Google+ for Consumers to Be Shut down Because of a Data Breach
Google+ is on its way out. Definitely not the most popular social media platform in the world, Google+ rolled out in 2011, and by 2015, it had about 111 million active users. That might sound like a pretty large number, but it really isn’t when compared to the likes of Tumblr,…
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Bupa Fined After Employee Sold Customer Data On Dark Web
Bupa Fined After Employee Sold Customer Data On Dark Web Bupa is, if not the largest, then certainly one of the best-known private healthcare companies in the world. For those of us who are fortunate enough to be able to afford it, it can provide a much more expedient (and…
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Over 50 Million Facebook Accounts Have Been Hacked
Over 50 Million Facebook Accounts Have Been Hacked Well, what can I say? Another day, another major data scandal. Mark Zuckerberg has so far likely had a year he’d rather forget. Yes, the social media site has been struggling to keep on the right side of the news for various…
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