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Sony Launches a Huge PlayStation Bug Bounty Program
How are your hacking skills? Do you fancy putting them to the test? Well, following an official post, Sony is looking for ‘white hat hackers’ to attempt to find vulnerabilities in either their PlayStation 4 operating system or their PlayStation Network. Better still, if you find a fault, depending on…
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Valve May Be Preparing a Steam Loyalty Scheme
Steam is undoubtedly the biggest platform for gaming on a PC. Albeit it has recently seen competition recently from the likes of the Epic Games Store who have, at the very least, been giving them some food for thought. In a report via TechPowerUp, however, a dig through the latest…
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Razer Paying Gamers to Use its Cortex Software
Peripheral maker Razer has launched a new “pay to play” scheme to encourage gamers to use its free Cortex PC performance-boosting software. You won’t be getting money to use the software, though: the company is including Cortex in its new zVault points initiative. zVault points can be used to purchase…
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Researcher Finds Bug That Allowed Free Uber Rides
Bug bounty programs can be a lucrative income source for white-hat hackers and it was so for security researcher Anand Prakash who discovered a huge flaw in the Uber’s system. The flaw would essentially let people abusing it book rides for which they never have to pay. The bug was…
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Apple Starts Invite Only Bug-Bounty Program
Companies are looking at increasing their security, working on finding and dealing with problems as they occur. One way companies are looking at addressing these issues is through bug-bounty programs. Apple is looking at starting to their own while but with an invite-only twist. Apple’s new scheme was announced at…
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Assassins Creed Movie Gets Tiered Pre-orders
People like movies, people like games. The natural combination of these is a movie based on a game or a movie based on a game. With games series like Thief getting the movie treatment, it should come as no surprise that we would be getting an Assassins Creed movie. What may…
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Sony Hands Out Free Game Codes To Compensate For 2011 Hack
A few years ago Sony had a rather bad hack, which affected around 70 million of their customers. In the wake of the hack, Sony offered to renew its efforts to increase security alongside some gifts to appease players who suffered during the 23-day outage. As of March 2nd, you may…
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GAME Manager Accidentally Orders Complete Stock of Gift Cards
Gift Cards In the retail sector, having to deal with customer complaints and product launches can be extremely tiresome. As a result, it’s quite easy for staff members to make blunders under stress but these are usually on a small scale. Unbelievably, the manager of a Scottish GAME branch managed…
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Researcher Found Flaw Which Could Have Been Used to Erase Every Video on YouTube
Software developer Kamil Hismatullin has discovered a security flaw in YouTube that apparently granted him the power to delete any video he wanted. This means that he had the power to delete each and every video on the website, but don’t be alarmed, he had no desire to do so.…
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US Law Enforcement Offer $3M Reward for Gameover ZeuS Botnet Suspect
The U.S. Department of Justice and the Department of State’s Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program is offering a $3 million reward for information that leads to the arrest or conviction of Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, the man suspected of being the administrator of the devastating peer-to-peer botnet Gameover ZeuS. The Gameover ZeuS…
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Russian Interior Ministry Offers £65.5k for Tor Crack
The Tor Network has been a huge thorn to most governments and anyone else trying to control the flow of information. We’ve read lot about both the US and UK governments and security agencies and their view on the Tor network. Now Russia has entered that list of governments…
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Bing Rewards App for Windows Phone Launched, 5 Months after iOS and Android
Latest news from Microsoft point to having its Bing Rewards app being released (finally) for Windows Phone, having it come out for its own handset operating system almost 5 months after the release on Android and iOS. The company’s reward program has been around since 2010, having it be launched…
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Assassin’s Creed Unity Receives Pre-Order Lottery
Ubisoft apparently tends to take pre-release sales to a new level of marketing. The first sign was when pre-orders started for Watch Dogs, having the company releasing the title in numerous versions, all with their own bonus content. This time, Ubisoft is clearly taking interest in pre-order content “uniqueness”, having…
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GitHub Launches Bug Bounty Program, Calls All ‘Bounty Hunters’ For A Challenge and Cash!
GitHub has launched its GitHub Bug Bounty, a program aimed to help security researchers in finding bugs and flaws in system. The company is reportedly willing to pay between $100 and $5,000 for each security vulnerability discovered and responsibly disclosed by hackers. Only the GitHub API, GitHub Gist, and GitHub.com.…
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Bitcoin Rewards Offered By PointsHound For Booking Hotel Rooms
Reports say that PointsHound is now offering members the option of earning Bitcoins and use them to book hotel rooms. The site allows users to select Bitcoin as a reward method for their next hotel stay, having the payout variable and depending on multiple factors, most importantly being where a…
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