Recentemente, un presunto data leak ha coinvolto Rockstar Games, una delle più grandi case produttrici di videogiochi al mondo, famosa per titoli come Grand Theft Auto e Red Dead Redemption. Secondo quanto riportato da un utente su un forum di hacking, sono stati compromessi dati personali di membri dello staff di Rockstar Games. Questo articolo fornisce un’analisi dettagliata delle informazioni disponibili e delle implicazioni di questa violazione.

Fonte e Contenuto del Leak

Il leak è stato segnalato da un utente con il nickname “IsIsakaisIs” su BreachForums, un noto forum di hacking. L’utente ha affermato di aver ottenuto 1001 righe di dati appartenenti allo staff di Rockstar Games. Le informazioni compromesse includono:

• ID
• Nome
• Cognome
• Email
• Link
• Posizione
• Versione
• Note
• Username
• Numeri di telefono
• Genere
• Fonte
• Stato
• Città
• Indirizzo
• Password
• Ricerca città
• Ricerca indirizzo
• Data di nascita
• Paese
• Continente
• Latitudine e Longitudine
• Raggio di precisione
• ASN Org
• ASN
• IP
• Dominio
• Codice postale
• VRN

Accesso ai Dati

I dati sono stati resi disponibili per il download sul forum, ma per accedere al contenuto completo è necessario sbloccare la visualizzazione pagando 8 crediti all’interno del forum.

Autenticità della Violazione

Al momento della stesura di questo articolo, Rockstar Games non ha rilasciato alcun comunicato stampa ufficiale riguardante questo incidente di sicurezza. Pertanto, non è possibile confermare con precisione la veridicità della violazione. La mancanza di conferme ufficiali implica che queste informazioni devono essere trattate come una fonte di intelligence piuttosto che come fatti accertati.

Analisi dei Rischi

Se i dati risultassero autentici, la violazione potrebbe avere gravi ripercussioni per i dipendenti di Rockstar Games, inclusi rischi di phishing, furto d’identità e altre forme di attacco informatico. Le informazioni personali dettagliate, come indirizzi, numeri di telefono e dati di localizzazione, aumentano il rischio di utilizzo malevolo.

Conclusione

Questo presunto data leak rappresenta una potenziale grave violazione della sicurezza per Rockstar Games e i suoi dipendenti. La mancanza di una conferma ufficiale da parte dell’organizzazione lascia aperti molti interrogativi. È cruciale che Rockstar Games conduca un’indagine approfondita per determinare la portata e l’autenticità del leak e prenda misure immediate per proteggere i dati del proprio staff. Nel frattempo, i dipendenti dovrebbero essere cauti riguardo a possibili tentativi di phishing e altre minacce correlate.

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If you have a hobby, it is natural to want to share it with kids. If you are interested in 3D printing, you may even have kids who want to try their hand at printing without prompting. There are a number of “kid printers” aimed specifically at that market. Are they worthwhile? How old is old enough? [Everson Siqueirar] tries out a Kidoodle with this 6-year-old daughter, and the results are good, as you can see in the video below.

Impressively, his daughter [Sophie] was able to set up the printer with a little help. The build plate is very small and not heated. Apparently, a glue stick is necessary for bed adhesion. The printer has WiFi but also has a collection of models you can print without any internet connection.

The results were good, and it looks like [Sophie] did all the work, which was impressive; she did a great job. While you could print some models locally and some on the network. You can also slice your own models, but if you use something like Cura or Slic3r, you’ll have to do some work to get a good profile. [Everson] tried it and managed to jam the printer. That requires adult intervention. But outside of that, [Sophie] was able to work on her own, even printing a few models while dad took a nap.

Technically, the printer has an enclosure, a large screen, and a direct drive extruder with an all-metal hot end. Not bad for a kid’s printer. It normally takes a small spool, but you can print an adapter for normal spools, although it was too fat for some spools and required a redesign.

We thought this printer was already out, but it is, alas, a Kickstarter. We’ve seen other printers try to address this market, including one from Mattel. You might argue that kids learn more from building a printer, but that has challenges, too.

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With all of the various keyboards, mouses (mice?), and other human interface devices (HID) available for our computers, there’s no possible way for developers to anticipate every type of input for every piece of software they build. Most of the time everything will work fine as long as some basic standards are kept, both from the hardware and software sides, but that’s not always the case. [Losso] noticed a truly terrible volume control method when visiting certain websites while also using a USB volume knob, and used this quirk to build a Breakout game with it.

It turns out his volume control knob would interact simultaneously with certain video players’ built-in volume control and the system volume for the operating system, leading to a number of undesirable conditions. However, the fact that this control is built in to certain browsers in the first place led to this being the foundation for the Breakout clone [Losso] is calling KNOB-OUT. Unlike volume buttons on something like a multimedia keyboard, the USB volume control knob can be configured much more easily to account for acceleration, making it much more faithful to the original arcade version of the game. The game itself is coded in JavaScript with the source code available right in the browser.

If you’d like to play [Losso]’s game here’s a direct link to it although sometimes small web-based projects like these tend to experience some slowdown when they first get posted here. And, if you’re looking for some other games to play in a browser like it’s the mid-00s again, we’re fans of this project which brings the unofficial Zelda game Zelda Classic to our screens.

A word of caution if you’re planning to try this cryocooler method for making liquid nitrogen: not only does it involve toxic and flammable gasses and pressures high enough to turn the works into a bomb, but you’re likely to deplete your rent account with money you’ll shell out for all the copper tubing and fittings. You’ve been warned.

In theory, making liquid nitrogen should be as easy as getting something cold enough that nitrogen in the air condenses. The “cold enough” part is the trick, and it’s where [Hyperspace Pirate]’s cryocooler expertise comes into play. His setup uses recycled compressors from cast-off air conditioners and relies on a mixed-gas Joule-Thomson cycle. He plays with several mixtures of propane, ethylene, methane, argon, and nitrogen, with the best results coming from argon and propane in a 70:30 percent ratio. A regenerative counterflow heat exchanger, where the cooled expanding gas flows over the incoming compressed gas to cool it, does most of the heavy lifting here, and is bolstered by a separate compressor that pre-cools the gas mixture to about -30°C before it enters the regenerative system.

There’s also a third compressor system that pre-cools the nitrogen process gas, which is currently supplied by a tank but will eventually be pulled right from thin air by a pressure swing adsorption system — basically an oxygen concentrator where you keep the nitrogen instead of the oxygen. There are a ton of complications in the finished system, including doodads like oil separators and needle valves to control the flow of liquid nitrogen, plus an Arduino to monitor and control the cycle. It works well enough to produce fun amounts of LN2 on the cheap — about a quarter of the cost of commercially made stuff — with the promise of efficiency gains to come.

It does need to be said that there’s ample room for peril here, especially containing high pressures within copper plumbing. Confidence in one’s brazing skills is a must here, as is proper hydro testing of components. That said, [Hyperspace Pirate] has done some interesting work here, not least of which is keeping expenses for the cryocooler to a minimum.

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We’ve often thought that while going to the moon in the 1960s was audacious, it was just the flashiest of many audacious feats attempted and accomplished in the 20th century. Imagine, for a minute, that the phone system didn’t exist today, and you stood up in front of a corporate board and said, “Let’s run copper wire to every home and business in the world.” They’d probably send you for a psychiatric evaluation. Yet we did just that, and, in the United States, that copper wire was because of the Bell system, which [Brian Potter] describes in a recent post.

The Bell company, regardless of many name changes and divisions, was clearly a very important company. [Brian] points out that in 1917, it was the second-largest company in the United States and continued to grow, eventually employing a whopping 1% of the entire U.S. workforce. That’s what happens when you have a monopoly on a product that is subject to wild demand. In 1900, Bell handled 5 million calls a day. By 1925, that number was over 50 million. In 1975, it was just shy of 500 million. If Wester Electric — just one part of Bell — was its own company, it would have been the 12th largest company in the U.S. during the 1970s.

From a technology point of view, the system was impressive in scale and rate of growth. In 1877, AT&T — the name after a restructuring — had 600 customers. A year later, it had 10,000. By 1881, that number was 100,000, and only 9 U.S. cities with more than 10,000 people lacked a phone exchange. By 1900, the 800,000 telephones in use required 2 million miles of wire!

That 2 million miles of wire had to go somewhere. New York City had hundreds of 90-foot poles, each carrying 300 wires, and people were complaining about the wires being in view. That caused AT&T to go underground. In 1888, a phone cable had 50 pairs of #18 wire. By 1939, #26 wire allowed 2,121 pairs of wires in a single cable.

Remember that the early phone system had no amplifiers. When tubes arrived, this allowed longer distances on smaller wires and radio links to reach the world. Bell’s monopoly allowed them to innovate but also hurt others who wanted to innovate.