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Multi-player cyber security game Hacker Field debuts

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An Italian developer team has created Hacker Field, a game aimed at raising cyber security awareness. 

The game, which debuted on global crowdfunding platform Kickstarter this week, takes the form of a multi-player strategy tower defence in a futuristic scenario. 

Players can challenge each other, taking on both the role of hacker and IT manager. At the beginning, the IT manager will have only a few bots and viruses to defend against, while in the following levels the number of difficulties they will face will increase.

Players can assume the role of an IT admin who has control of the infrastructure and will have to defend using tools including a server through which they can boost power by increasing the number of information packets that the backup can contain, antivirus to prevent the tower from being damaged, and firewalls.

The other role, that of the bad actor whose job is to steal data, employs two tools: bots to steal information from the server, and viruses to cause damage to the system.

Cyber attacks have been included among the ten worst global threats in the World Economic Forum’s annual risks report, explains Antonio Gison, founder and app developer at gison.it.

His team wanted to build a game that simulates a what really happens on a computer when a file with a virus is downloaded and a firewall intervenes to block the connection.

The idea was inspired by Plague Inc, a famous simulation game that explains how pandemics work. “We then thought of using that model to create a simulation game to entertain and teach the fundamentals of cyber security,” Gison adds.

The game is available on PC and will be available via an app soon, he says. “It is a free-to -play game with the option of making purchases to unlock graphic skins and other offline content.

Hacker Field was self-financed by the team, who is now looking for alternative financing to accelerate the development of the project. For this reason, a crowdfunding campaign has been created on Kickstarter.

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With Theaters Closed, The Trailer For Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ Debuts In Fortnite Instead

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With the explosion of the video game industry and the technology that has come along with it, it’s starting to get really fun to see what creative minds can do inside of the gaming realm. It’s turning games into something much more than they would have been 20 years ago. Back then, games were singular in purpose: play the video game. Today they can be so much more when done right. They can be a social ecosystem. They can be economies onto themselves.

Or they can be a place to premier top tier movie trailers, in the case of Fortnite.

Tonight, a new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film Tenet aired in Fortnite. The trailer was introduced by Geoff Keighley, because he’s the only consistency we have left in this topsy-turvy world.

Keighley introduced the trailer, shown at Fortnite’s new Party Royale hub’s movie theater. He spoke with Tenet star John David Washington about his gaming history and his role in the film. The trailer itself featured some clips we’ve seen before, but it didn’t reveal all that much more about the movie, which seems to involve time travel and Robert Pattinson.

While the trailer is now widely available, its first showing was in Fortnite. And that strikes me as both rather strange and very, very cool. There is something about layering entertainment inside other entertainment that just clicks with me. Those Minecraft builds where folks build a working computer inside the game? That’s amazing to me. Those people who band together in the latest version of Skyrim just to produce a reproduction of previous Elder Scrolls games in the new engine? I love that stuff. And forward thinking media executives who want to have a little fun during a pandemic and show off a new movie trailer in a movie screen inside a popular video game? I mean, that’s just cool.

And it would appear that either Nolan himself or someone on his team is interested in keeping these experiments running, given the closure of most movie theaters in the country.

The Tenet trailer ended with the words “Coming to theaters,” which seems like an awfully ambitious declaration due to, you know, the world. But just as each day brings new horrors, it also brings new possibilities to imagine, as well as Geoff Keighley telling us new things about games.

Keighley ended by announcing that there will be a screening of “an iconic Christopher Nolan film” in Fortnite this summer. (I haven’t seen a Nolan film since Memento, but it’s probably not that.)

Whatever it is, screening an entire movie inside a video game? Sounds cool to me!

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Utah Says No to Apple/Google COVID-19 Tracing; Debuts Startup App

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“Healthy Together” app uses a raft of location data, including GPS, cell tower triangulation and Bluetooth, to pinpoint users and ID coronavirus hotspots.
Mobile Security – Threatpost