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Government monitoring of internet data presents an advanced persistent threat” according to a new pro-consumer blog from Microsoft. Many of our customers have serious concerns about government surveillance of the internet,” Microsoft’s general counsel and executive VP of legal and corporate affairs Brad Smith wrote. We share their concerns. That’s …

One of the most influential video games forums on the internet has suffered a security breach. Users of NeoGaf will upon their next visit find that they are asked to change their password. We’ve just had an admin account compromised briefly by an automated attack,” a statement confirmed. The hole …

Riot Games has confirmed the League of Legends servers have been hacked, exposing the account data of some of its North American customers. League of Legends is one of the most played games on the planet, boasting millions of users worldwide, but the attacks are said to have targeted North …

Some user data exposed, possibly including hashed and salted passwords and credit cards

A disabled internet user has begun a campaign that will attempt to rid the internet of CAPTCHA. CAPTCHA (which stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is an online security measure used by many leading websites that is designed to stop spam bots from …

Crysis developer Crytek has warned users that their personal details may have been accessed in a website breach. The studio took four of its websites offline over the weekend – Crytek.com, MyCrysis.com, Crydev.net and MyCryenginge.com. Each carried the following message: "We recently became aware of suspicious activity relating to some …

Any attempt by the US government to use Xbox One’s Kinect camera to spy on the public would be resisted. That’s the message from Microsoft, which in a statement released to The Verge in response to privacy concerns about the new device said: "Absent a new law, we don’t believe …

Pro Evolution Soccer dev latest to fall victim to security breach

Attendees Amsterdam’s Black Hat security conference have discovered a security vulnerability in EA’s Origin client. ArsTechnica reports that an attack using the loophole takes just seconds to execute” and can even be done without any interaction from the PC owning victim. The weakness is similar to the one discovered in …

Microsoft has this morning been hit by a security breach of its Xbox Entertainment Awards 2013 service. MCV was contacted by a reader with a link to a page that appeared to list all those who had voted and therefore been entered into the prize draw. The data included names, …