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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “griefing”

• Second Life Griefing at Tutorial Island Video

  
  Second Life Update — Authority: 431
  We have written before many times about griefers in Second Life . I have never before seen a griefer in Second Life with the audacity to attack tutorial island before. The below video is about 1.5 minutes long and shows a griefer attack on the Tutorial Island virtual sim in Second Life. Check it out below. ...
  1 day ago

• Taking down Isildur1 for $5.6 Million in Online Poker without Collusion, Ghosting, or Multi-Accounting

  
  PlayNoEvil Game Security News & Analysis — Authority: 127
  The online poker community has been abuzz since September about Isildur1 - a player who came from nowhere and was making millions of dollars... and then losing them. The top tier players are tracked and treated like celebrities. This is totally fascinating as someone who only dips into the world of online poker ...
  5 days ago

• FRIDAY FUN: Seven Types of Spies, Griefer Player Categories

  
  PlayNoEvil Game Security News & Analysis — Authority: 127
  What are the "classes" that players have when playing online games? Dr. Richard Bartle famously started things out with Achievers, Explorers, Socializers, and Killers. Several others have expanded his archetypes including my own with four "positive" categories: Achievers, Explorers, Socializers, Competitors, and four ...
  1 week ago

• More Modern Warfare 2 Cheats and Exploits

  
  PlayNoEvil Game Security News & Analysis — Authority: 127
  Activision and Infinity Wards hit game Modern Warfare 2 continues to be plagued by attacks. This time, there is an exploit that allows malicious players to give everyone infinite ammunition (Xbox 360, so far)... based on the available description, my guess is that the malicious players are modifying their ...
  1 week ago

• Online Games in China attacked - as much as $1 Billion in Annual Hacker Revenues

  
  PlayNoEvil Game Security News & Analysis — Authority: 127
  Chinese hackers are making between $100 Million and $1 Billion per year exploiting online games in China (more conservative estimates put the value of online game hacking at between $14.6 million and $146 million). These criminal groups earn 95 percent of their revenue from attacking online games with trojan software ...
  1 week ago

• Glitch Politics

  
  Ready Up! — Authority: 133
  Since online gaming has existed there have been those willing to use cheats, codes and hacks to manipulate the gamespace to their advantage. Types of cheating can vary, ranging from the Fifa 10 leaderboard scam, with players suddenly appearing in the top 100 after gathering 20,000 skill-points overnight, to ...
  1 week ago

• NOTED: Monopoly City Streets Online Game Shut Down Early

  
  PlayNoEvil Game Security News & Analysis — Authority: 127
  Hasbros Monopoly City Streets Online Game was shut down over a month early (on December 9th 2009 instead of January 31st 2010)... probably in part due to persistent cheating, game security, and game design issues. As previously discussed, the game had serious cheating problems and had to be reset shortly after launch. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Leaderboards Hacked on the PS3 for Modern Warfare 2

  
  PlayNoEvil Game Security News & Analysis — Authority: 127
  The global leaderboards have been hacked badly, and repeatedly, for the PS3 version of Activision s and Infinity Ward s Modern Warfare 2 . Scores are showing up that are 10 to 100 times the other scores available for the game. I suspect that the hacks are being implemented through altering the game save or ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fan Site Attack! Guild Wars accounts hacked via Third Party Site

  
  PlayNoEvil Game Security News & Analysis — Authority: 127
  ArenaNet has not released too many details, but it appears that a third party trading site for Guild Wars was compromised resulting in many players accounts being hacked because... they disclose game account data (or use their same names and passwords, it is a bit unclear) at the third party site. This is similar ...
  3 weeks ago

• There is no Secondary Market

  
  PlayNoEvil Game Security News & Analysis — Authority: 127
  I was watching Marcus Eikenberry s ( MarkeeDragon ) interview with Geoffrey Zatkin (former designer at SOE for Everquest and current owner and operator of Electronic Entertainment Design and Research ) about everybodys favorite topic - Real Money Trading (RMT) / secondary markets: My notes along the way: "100s ...
  3 weeks ago

• HXO-Life, Copybotting and Griefing Viewer

  
  Kabalyero — Authority: 115
  I saw a YouTube video of this viewer posted in a forum. The video showed some of the things HXO Life can do like copying animations and sounds played by other residents, copying shapes, skins and clothes of other residents as well as copying objects created by other residents.The video featured a resident named HXO ...
  3 weeks ago

• 2500 players banned from Modern Warfare 2 and Valve Anti-Cheat Triggers Malware panic

  
  PlayNoEvil Game Security News & Analysis — Authority: 127
  Infinity Ward was bound to face some tough questions in the wake of its decision not to support dedicated servers on PCs and its use of Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) for Modern Warfare 2. 1. 2500 accounts were banned from the game for various cheating activities including bots. It will be interesting to see how this ...
  3 weeks ago

• Phighting Phishing - The Best Defense is a Good Offense at Jagex

  
  PlayNoEvil Game Security News & Analysis — Authority: 127
  Jagex , the under-heralded developer and operator of Runescape , takes security pretty seriously - to the order of £3 million per year (almost $5 million) for security support alone (any idea of Jagexs overall support budget? it would be great to know the percent of staff allocated to security... or for other games, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Video Tutorial: Griefer Handling Tips

  
  Second Life Update — Authority: 431
  The below video is a tutorial on how to handle different types of Griefer attacks. It is not quite as in depth as these 6 videos on fighting griefer attacks but is still a good general overview. It also includes some different types of attacks than those already covered. The video is about 3 minutes long. Check ...
  5 weeks ago

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