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Major Spike in Security Threats To Online Games 48

Posted by Soulskill from the i-blame-world-of-warcraft dept.
Gamasutra reports on data from security software firm ESET, which shows a major increase in the number of gaming-related security threats over the last year. They attribute the rise in attacks to the amount of money involved in the games industry these days. ESET's full report (PDF) is also available. "[ESET's research director, Jeff Debrosse] explains: 'It's a two-phase attack. If someone's account was compromised, then someone else can actually [using their avatar] during a chat session, or through in-game communication... they could leverage that people trust this person and point them at various URLs, and those URLs will either have drive-by malware or a specific [malware] executable. What ends up happening is that folks may end up downloading and using it. This is just one methodology.' These attackers also target gamers in external community sites, says Debrosse, through 'banners on websites or URLs in chat rooms or forums' — which can lead to unsafe URLs. 'If [users] don't have adequate protection, they could very well be downloading malware without their knowledge.'"
Communications

Obama Staffers Followed Palin's Email Lead On Inauguration Day 407

Posted by timothy from the why-mess-with-success dept.
theodp writes "Using Yahoo's free e-mail service to conduct government business was good enough for Sarah Palin. And now the Washington Times reports that Obama staffers turned to Gmail on Inauguration Day to conduct their business. Those wishing to contact members of the incoming Obama administration were instructed to contact staffers at wh.LASTNAME@gmail.com until official White House e-mail addresses became available."
Science

11,000-Year-Old Temple Found In Turkey 307

Posted by samzenpus from the chicken-or-the-egg dept.
Ralph Spoilsport writes "In Southeast Turkey, the archaeologist Klaus Schmidt has discovered an 11,000-year-old temple. Established civilization theory suggests that agriculture created cities, and cities created monuments. This discovery suggests just the opposite — people got together to build a huge monument to their religion, and in order to sustain it, communities were formed and agriculture (already in development) quickly followed on to sustain the population. Truly a startling find with significant implications."

Comment Re:Giving Comcast Props (Score 1) 290

by Novanix (#19794699) Attached to: Comcast and Net Speed Tests
Actually I get really high burst speeds, but if you a long download of >10-15 seconds it will drop to your 6-8 megabits a sec rate. It confuses all the speed testers as basically any large transfer for the first so many seconds will go very fast, and its just after that the speed really drops. Best way is to just downlod a large file and see what the speeds are like 20 seconds in.

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