Cheating at Conkers
The men’s world conkers champion is accused of cheating with a steel chestnut. [...]
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Fooling an AI Article Writer
World of Warcraft players wrote about a fictional game element, “Glorbo,” on a subreddit for the game, trying to entice an AI bot to write an article about it. It worked : And it...worked. Zleague auto-published a post titled “World of Warcraft Players Excited For Glorbo’s Introduction.” [...] That …
Practice Your Security Prompting Skills
Gandalf is an interactive LLM game where the goal is to get the chatbot to reveal its password. There are eight levels of difficulty, as the chatbot gets increasingly restrictive instructions as to how it will answer. It’s a great teaching tool. I am stuck on Level 7 …
The Password Game
Amusing parody of password rules. BoingBoing : For example, at a certain level, your password must include today’s Wordle answer. And then there’s rule #27: “At least 50% of your password must be in the Wingdings font.” [...]
Leaking Military Secrets on Gaming Discussion Boards
People are leaking classified military information on discussion boards for the video game War Thunder to win arguments — repeatedly. [...]
How cut-and-pasted programming is putting the internet and society at risk | John Naughton
A vulnerability has been exposed in Minecraft, the bestselling video game of all time – and the security implications outside the world of gaming are vast In one of those delicious coincidences that warm the cockles of every tech columnist’s heart, in the same week that the entire internet …
Hacker-Themed Board Game
Black Hat is a hacker-themed board game. [...]
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-Related Game
It’s called “ Squid Fishering.” As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here. [...]
Malware Hidden in Call of Duty Cheating Software
News article : Most troublingly, Activision says that the “cheat” tool has been advertised multiple times on a popular cheating forum under the title “new COD hack.” (Gamers looking to flout the rules will typically go to such forums to find new ways to do so.) While the report doesn …
US Cyber Command Valentine’s Day Cryptography Puzzles
The US Cyber Command has released a series of ten Valentine’s Day “Cryptography Challenge Puzzles.” Slashdot thread. Reddit thread. (And here’s the archived link, in case Cyber Command takes the page down.) [...]
Including Hackers in NATO Wargames
This essay makes the point that actual computer hackers would be a useful addition to NATO wargames: The international information security community is filled with smart people who are not in a military structure, many of whom would be excited to pose as independent actors in any upcoming wargames …