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Tag Archives: Live
Live Login Vulnerabilities are Main Cause of Latest XBL Hacks
It’s never a good feeling knowing that a service that you use may be vulnerable to hackers. It’s even worse knowing how easy it is to do. According to Inside Gaming Daily, Eurogamer and AnalogHype have posted reports of findings behind the latest Xbox Live hacks. Essentially, hackers use your gamertag to find profiles on other websites that you have linked your gamertag with and use the associated e-mail address as a base to see if it is your live ID. Then, through scripting and other means of automation, hackers “brute-force” your password and gain access to your account, where they can do untold damage, especially if you have a credit card on file with Microsoft.
Best word of advise I can give in a situation like this, use a strong password, including lower/UPPER case letters, numbers, and special characters and no words or easily identifiable numbers (Wikipedia). One other thing that frustrates me a little about live accounts is that the max password length is 16 characters, but that’s typically long enough for the casual user.
Decade Finale Podcast
We are ready to wrap up our saga tonight with the final decade show, featuring the history and evolution of Halo. Tonight’s discussion will be focused around what we all know and love: the multiplayer. We were bewildered with maps like Sidewinder, Hang ‘em High, and Blood Gulch. And with the release of Halo CEA being only three days away, we are going to be able to relive some of those classic moments. Make sure to come join us live on Ustream.tv at 19:00 Eastern and relive those moments with some of the top community leaders.
Dust Storm on The Running Riot
Tonight I have the privilege of being the featured guest on The Running Riot podcast with long time podcasting friend Kete. There have been many instances where Kete has made guest appearances on our show, and now he is returning the favor. Be sure to tune in tonight at 10:00 PM Eastern to see the interview live. If you can’t watch, make sure to check out the recording later on Ustream.tv.
XBL Price Changing as of November 1st
Unfortunately Major Nelson has just announced a new pricing scheme for Xbox Live. You can see the new priceing below. As bad as this is, I’m going to be super optimistic and suggest that this may allow massive improvements to XBL. What those could be I can’t say but hopefully they’ll bring us better features than twitter and facebook.

Did You Know?
If you have played Halo 2 recently, you probably noticed the new items in the “Did you Know?” box while you’re waiting for matchmaking to find players. So here starts the compilation of all those funny quotes we are used to seeing from Bungie.
- Last Chance! If you want to have access to all the free Halo 2 DLC, go grab it now. It all goes offline on the 15th of April!
- Thanks for playing. Seriously? More than five years after launch? You’re awesome.
- Title Update 4 adds Theater support, screenshots and Forge to Halo 2! Coming: NEVER. Finish the Fight! The exciting conclusion to the Halo 2 cliff-hanger wraps up in Halo 3 for the Xbox 360!
- Admit it, the first time you boarded a vehicle it was pretty awesome!
- Dual Wielding. When all else fails, circle strafe.
- BXR. Yeah, it’s cheating.
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Tagged Bungie, Did you know, Halo 2, Live, Matchmaking, Multiplayer, Xbox
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