Yes, survival games can tell great stories too The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games, our monthly gaming column. It was tricky deciding what to look at for this edition, what with the doozy of Cyberpunk 2077 in our tail lights. As for the New Year, we’ve been left with…

UScellular, the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the U.S. with 4.9 million customers, has been hacked. …read more Source:: SecurityMagazine

Robinhood restricted trading in cryptocurrencies on Friday, as the price of bitcoin and a meme-inspired token rose sharply. From a report: Users began reporting that the trading app had halted instant deposits for crypto purchases earlier in the day, meaning they could only buy the currencies with funds already deposited in their accounts. Such deposits…

Denzel Washington thriller The Little Things hit HBO Max the same day as theaters, and the so-called Snyder Cut of Justice League is coming March 18. …read more Source:: CNet

Attackers go after the weak links first, and the Web supply chain provides an abundance of weak links to target. …read more Source:: DarkReading

Xiaomi, the world’s third largest smartphone maker, today unveiled “Mi Air Charge Technology” that it says can deliver 5W power to multiple devices “within a radius of several metres” as the Chinese giant invited customers to a “true wireless charging era.” From a report: The company said it has self-developed an isolated charging pile that…

In the fourth quarter of 2020, Cyberbit surveyed hundreds of Security Operations Center (SOC) Managers, Analysts, and Incident Responders participating in training sessions on their opinions and observances within the current cyber skilling climate. The culminating report reveals how organizations are currently building the human element of their InfoSec organization—shedding light on current practices including…

It’s one thing to ask what the future will be like. It’s quite another to ask what it will feel like. Twelve minutes listening to someone who really knows may make you question the meaning of life. And what’s left of it. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Enterprises worldwide are accelerating the adoption of passwordless authentication technologies in response to the increase in cybersecurity threats in 2020, according to a new report released by HYPR, The Passwordless Company and Cybersecurity Insiders. …read more Source:: SecurityMagazine

Reddit Chief Executive Officer Steve Huffman said on Thursday that the WallStreetBets forum is “by no means perfect but they’ve been well in the bounds of our content policy.” From a report: “With all of our communities that do their best to be good citizens of Reddit, we try to do our best by them…