This past week brought a plethora of cybersecurity news, with attackers going after everything from gaming platforms to advertisers’ checkbooks. Steam, the massive gaming site that’s part of Valve, got hacked, potentially endangering its 35 million members. Law enforcement scored a big win when the FBI announced that it had busted a major cyberfraud ring that infected millions of computers worldwide and scammed legit online advertisers.
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Posted by: Richard Adhikari November 15, 2011 05:00 AMThis past week brought a plethora of cybersecurity news, with attackers going after everything from gaming platforms to advertisers’ checkbooks. Steam, the massive gaming site that’s part of Valve, got hacked, potentially endangering its 35 million members. Law enforcement scored a big win when the FBI announced that it had busted a major cyberfraud ring that infected millions of computers worldwide and scammed legit online advertisers.