EA’s Source: It’s in the Game (and in Hackers’ Hands) - Security Boulevard

Or, Go Outside for a Walk Electronic Arts got hacked and its source code stolen. Hackers took hundreds of gigabytes of game source code and tools—including internals of FIFA 21 and Battlefield.

So what is it? In today’s #SBBlogwatch, we push a secret button sequence to find out.

At @SecurityBlvd: https://t.co/FVPrCOjlyz

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) June 11, 2021

Trojan Shield: FBI punks crims with faux app—and international help - TechBeacon

Cops did WHAT? Police forces around the world are arresting more suspects of organized crime. They’re unsealing evidence gathered over the past two to three years via a private-messaging app, Anom (styled ΛNØM or An0m).

This is madness. In this week’s #SecurityBlogwatch, this is Sparta. At @TechBeaconCom: https://t.co/TuvcsxXhTh

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) June 10, 2021

Genius! Apple Bribes Woman over Naked Pic Theft - Security Boulevard

Three Times a Hypocrite: Apple is under fire for its hypocrisy in promising privacy, while also authorizing repair technicians who allegedly stole naked pictures and video from a woman’s iPhone. To make matters worse, court filings also allege they took control of her Facebook account and posted the sensitive media to her wall for all her friends to see.

And Apple tried to bury the story, by bribing the victim in a secret settlement under #NDA, according to the court filings.

How hypocritical is that? In today’s #SBBlogwatch, we count the ways. At @SecurityBlvd: https://t.co/eQ4DX9Eso9

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) June 9, 2021

Is Apple’s App Store ‘Teeming’ with Scams? - Security Boulevard

Time to Drop your iPhone? Roughly 2% of the top-grossing iOS apps are, in some way, “scams.” Or so it is said: There’s been much chatter this weekend that Apple is sleeping on the job of reviewing iThing apps.

Is this simply a spat between the A and the A in #FAANG?

In today’s #SBBlogwatch, we wonder if there’s a There there. At @SecurityBlvd: https://t.co/GufRf1Oo2d

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) June 7, 2021