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Sunday Comics: Dead Island Up until I had kids, it had been a long, long time since I’d picked up a recorder. This hack, which combines relays, arduinos, a Nokia 6110i and Snake might just get me tempted to start playing again.
A hacker collective named SwaggSec claims to have hacked Foxconn, the world’s largest electronic components maker. Foxconn assembles hardware for Apple as well as game consoles, such as the PS3, the Xbox 360 and the PS3. According to SwaggSec’s open letter, the hack appears to be retaliation for Foxconn’s notorious working conditions.
Square Enix stated yesterday that somebody “may have gained unauthorised access to a particular Square Enix server” and took its members service offline in both Japan and the U.S. Today, the company clarified that 1.8 million customer’s accounts had been affected.
Earlier this week, British tabloid The Sun ran a story, pointing to a series of “phishing” con jobs that were putting Xbox 360 owners at risk.
While the scope of the Steam Hack remains to be seen, for millions of gamers its early developments — indeed, even Valve’s early statements — match those of this year’s notorious PlayStation Network outage, which may provide a guidepost for what is to come.
A message sent just now from Valve Corporation head Gabe Newell says credit card numbers and other personal information were compromised in a defacement attack on the Steam forums this Sunday.
Last night, the forums for Valve’s Steam service were apparently hacked. Redirects for a hacking website, Fkn0wned.com, appeared on the Steam Users’ Forums, offering “hacking tutorials and tools, porn, free giveaways and much more”.
Kinect hacks, I’ve seen a few, but this may be the most exciting. Using a Kinect alongside an optical see-through display, Microsoft researchers have been able to create functioning HoloDesk, in which you can manipulate virtual objects with your hands. This really has to be seen to be understood, or believed.
Kinect hacks provide an endless rabbit hole of would-be tech wizards using the peripheral for a rainbow of results. Some of them are amazing, such as this Kinect-controlled drone. Some of them are silly, such as this.
