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  • How Sega Saturn’s 20-Year Old DRM Was Finally Cracked

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    Back in the ’90s, the Sega Saturn was the most powerful video games console on the market. If the Sony PlayStation was a car, the Saturn was a military tank. But it was an expensive over-engineered machine and it failed to make an impact in the gaming market. So complex was the Saturn that some…

  • Smart Devices, Dumb Security: Expect To See More IoT Botnet Attacks

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    Last weekend’s massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that crippled the internet came from a network of consumer devices including routers, IP security cameras and digital video recorders (DVRs). The events was a realisation of what security researchers have been warning for years; that the internet-of-things (IoT) can be exploited by cybercriminals for damaging…