BioWare Hacked

Alberta based BioWare was recently hacked, eh?

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/06/17/alberta-gaming-company-hit-by-hackers

18,000 user accounts compromised. If you have a login with them you might want to change your password. And please, please please - don't reuse passwords on multiple sites! Definitely don't reuse Twitter and Facebook passwords because that's the first place someone with access to it will try.

"Zabiuk said one of the key pieces of information hackers are looking for are credit card numbers, but passwords and user ID's are also valuable since many people use the same one for several accounts, making it easy for thieves to access accounts such as PayPal or iTunes."

Batman's Kryptonite

Yes, I know: the original had it, too.

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Security Through... Well, No Security.

Hot on the heals of the Bethesda hack where LulzSec stole the Brink source code and player database...

Today they hacked and took down Eve Online. And Escapist Magazine. And the Minecraft login server. Escapist and Minecraft appear to be DDOS attacks. Eve looks more sinister. Update: LulzSec is saying it was just a DDOS against Eve. No skillz required.

A Bit of Nostalgia

A new book has been published online at Smashwords by Robinson Mason, "A Commodore 64 Walkabout":

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/65936

It goes into details of how to set up a Commodore 64 emulator and the various games and genres available for it.

More importantly, Chapter four has quite a long interview with me... It seems that I was somewhat influential back in the 1980's. Whatever happened to that? ;-)

Mason is an Analyst at HP, and writes Sci-Fi novels on the side. He also has a huge fascination with 1980's tech.