Today on Headline
RePLAY: The producer of the Street
Fighter series steps down, hackers can steal credit card information from
pre-owned Xbox 360’s and Dragon’s Crown
is not cancelled.
Yoshinori Ono, the man
responsible for Street Fighter IV and
Street Fighter x Tekken, is stepping
down as producer of the franchise in the wake of being hospitalized last week.
Ono apologized to fans
on Twitter for causing concern about his welfare and wanted to thank them for
all the get-well messages. The Street
Fighter producer then announced that he’s stepping down “for a while,” and
that an unannounced individual has taken up the reins of the franchise.
In the meantime, Ono is
going to still provide support but will stay out of the “limelight” while he contemplates
about the “new future of fighting games” and assured fans that he’ll try his
best to “be back.”
*Source:
@Yoshi_OnoChin
If you’re thinking
about selling or giving away your Xbox 360, you might want to reconsider:
researchers at Drexel University discovered that with just common tools,
hackers and modders can access the console’s hard drive to steal credit card or
personal information.
“Microsoft does a
great job of protecting their proprietary information,” Ashley Podhradsky, a
researcher at Drexel University, told Kotaku in a phone interview. “But they
don’t do a great job of protecting the user’s data.”
Podhradsky noted that
even restoring the 360 to factory settings won’t completely remove all the data
it contains. She said Microsoft was doing a “disservice” to customers by not
protecting their personal data better.
Alongside Drexel
University colleagues Rob D’Ovidio and Cindy Casey and Pat Engebretson from
Dakota State University, Podhradsky bought a refurbished Xbox 360 from
Microsoft last year to experiment on. The team downloaded a basic modding tool
to use to crack the console, which gave them access to its files and folders
and resultantly was able to identify and extract the original owner’s credit
card information.
“A lot of them already
know how to do all this,” said Podhradsky. “Anyone can freely download a lot of
this software, essentially pick up a discarded game console, and have someone’s
identity.”
To combat the danger
of getting your personal information compromised, Podhradsky recommends detaching
your 360’s hard drive, connecting it to your computer, and using a program like
Darik’s Boot & Nuke to wipe everything. She cautions that reformatting won’t
be enough.
“I think Microsoft has
a longstanding pattern of this,” said Podhradsky. “When you go and reformat
your computer, like a Windows system, it tells you that all of your data will
be erased. In actuality that’s not accurate— the data is still available… so
when Microsoft tells you that you’re resetting something, it’s not accurate.
“There’s a lot more
that needs to be done.”
*Source: Kotaku
After Dragon’s Crown mysteriously disappeared
from Amazon.com and GameInformer happened to receive reports that customers had
their pre-orders cancelled, it’s no wonder why cancellation rumors began to run
amuck.
In response to all the
speculation, Vanillaware illustrator Shigatake leapt into the fray on Twitter
to assure fans that the game is most definitely not cancelled. “I personally can’t say much, but I’ll just say, regarding
Dragon’s Crown, although there lots of
rumors and conjecture, it’s still in development. Please wait patiently for an
official update.”
Dragon’s Crown was initially revealed at E3 2011 as a spring 2012
title, but news of the game has been scarce recently despite its rapidly approaching release date.
*Source: Andriasang
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