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nProtect GameGuard (sometimes called GG) is an anti-cheating rootkit developed by INCA Internet. It is widely installed in many online games to block possibly malicious applications and prevent common methods of cheating. [ 1][ 2][ 3] nProtect GameGuard provides B2B2C (Business to Business to Consumer) security services for online game ...
Valve Anti-Cheat ( VAC) is an anti-cheat tool developed by Valve as a component of the Steam platform, first released with Counter-Strike in 2002. When the software detects a cheat on a player's system, it will ban them in the future, possibly days or weeks after the original detection. [ 1] It may kick players from the game if it detects ...
Cheat Engine ( CE) is a proprietary, source available [ 5] freeware memory scanner / debugger created by Eric Heijnen ("Byte, Darke") for the Windows operating system in 2000. [ 6][ 7] Cheat Engine is mostly used for cheating in computer games and is sometimes modified and recompiled to support new games. It searches for values input by the ...
Cheating in online games. A video game cheat menu. Typical extrasensory perception (ESP) hack showing the health, name and bounding box of an entity that is not otherwise visible. On online games, cheating subverts the rules or mechanics of the games to gain an unfair advantage over other players, generally with the use of third-party software ...
List of warez groups. Warez groups are teams of individuals who have participated in the organized unauthorized publication of films, music, or other media, as well as those who can reverse engineer and crack the digital rights management ( DRM) measures applied to commercial software. This is a list of groups, both web -based and warez scene ...
October 16: The YouTube channel of Sesame Street was hacked, streaming pornographic content for about 22 minutes. [74] November 1: The main phone and Internet networks of the Palestinian territories sustained a hacker attack from multiple locations worldwide. [75] November 7: The forums for Valve's Steam service were hacked. Redirects for a ...
This is a list of reports about data breaches, using data compiled from various sources, including press reports, government news releases, and mainstream news articles. The list includes those involving the theft or compromise of 30,000 or more records, although many smaller breaches occur continually. Breaches of large organizations where the ...
The 2011 PlayStation Network outage (sometimes referred to as the PSN Hack) was the result of an "external intrusion" on Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity services, in which personal details from approximately 77 million accounts were compromised and prevented users of PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable consoles from accessing the service.