MCV/DEVELOP News, events, research and jobs from the games industry
Bag checks and ban on imitation weapons introduced as exhibitors and attendees advised to leave unnecessary items at home
Read More »Minecraft Pocket Edition server provider hacked: 7m accounts breached
Lifeboat Network compromised in early January, but didn’t tell users
Read More »Two-factor authentication coming to PlayStation Network
Sony is soon going to be providing gamers with an extra layer of security for PSN accounts. Speaking to Polygon, a representative for PlayStation said that the firm is preparing to roll out a ‘two-step verification feature’. Two-factor authentication is a security measure that requires users to enter two different …
Read More »FBI hasn’t told Apple how it cracked iOS
Concerns about Apple’s iOS security remain with the news that the tech giant still doesn’t know how US authorities successfully hacked into an iPhone. The New York Times reports that FBI has confirmed that while it has been in discussions with Apple since it successfully broke the encryption of the …
Read More »Coder exploits Steamworks loophole to release unverified game
Ruby Nealon snuck Watch Paint Dry onto Steam store after his warnings about virtual backdoor went ignored by Valve
Read More »Web developer sneaks game onto Steam without Valve’s permission
An English web developer going by the name Ruby has successfully uploaded a game to Steam, without Valve’s permission, to illustrate a security loophole. The game, if you can call it that, was called Watch Paint Dry. It was a spoof title, really, and has since been removed by Valve. …
Read More »US government cracks iOS security without Apple’s help
The US Department of Justice has said that it has successfully cracked the iPhone at the centre of the security dispute between Apple and the FBI. In February Apple hit the headlines when it accused the FBI of threatening digital security after the agency demanded that that the company help …
Read More »Protect your applications against reverse engineering and tampering
Intel Developer Blog: Prevent observation and reverse-engineering for binaries of your code using the Tamper Protection Toolkit
Read More »Bill Gates sides with FBI in Apple hack debate
Former Microsoft boss Bill Gates has potentially isolated himself from his tech contemporaries by saying that Apple should abide by a government ruling forcing it to share encrypted data. This is a specific case where the government is asking for access to information. They are not asking for some general …
Read More »Google boss Pichai backs Apple in FBI security dispute
Apple boss Tim Cook has received the backing of Google CEO Sundar Pichai in his security row with the US government. Cook earlier this week said he would not abide by FBI orders to create what he sees as a security backdoor to iOS that allow authorities to access a …
Read More »