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WAX Partners With AWS To Unlock Web3 Integration In Gaming

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The US-based Worldwide Asset Exchange (WAX) has announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to integrate the WAX network into the Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) service.

TakeAway Points:

  • Worldwide Asset Exchange and Amazon Web Services announced a partnership to integrate the WAX network.
  • The partnership will enable developers to deploy their nodes with just a few clicks through the AWS console, making the whole process as streamlined and frictionless as possible.
  • As part of this collaboration, all Prime Gaming subscribers gained access to free WAX accounts.

Amazon Web Services to Integrate Worldwide Asset Exchange 

AMB is a fully managed service designed to help developers build resilient, decentralised applications (dApps) on both public and private blockchains, offering them instant and server-less access to multiple decentralised networks without worrying about deploying specialised infrastructures.

Until now, developers who wanted to integrate Web3 functionality had to either deploy their own nodes manually, which is a complex and time-consuming process, or use the services of existing node providers, relinquishing a portion of control over their infrastructures.

Enhancing Web3 Developers and Firms Development

Following the integration into AMB, WAX now allows developers to deploy their nodes with just a few clicks through the AWS console, making the whole process as streamlined and frictionless as possible. After this simple deployment, developers can freely use their WAX nodes to experiment and build on the WAX blockchain and interact with both the mainnet and testnets without additional hurdles.

To further ease the onboarding process, WAX also offers studios and companies a full suite of tools and solutions aimed at streamlining the Web3 development process, including the Cloud Wallet, single-sign-on (SSO) and OAUTH, a native random number generation service, a developer portal, a…

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New York State Gaming Commission Is Latest Casino Hacking Target

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First casinos, and now the regulators. It’s been a tough couple of months for cyber security teams in the casino industry. That continued over the weekend at the New York State Gaming Commission.

The state’s casino regulator was hacked, bringing some grief not just to the gaming commission, but also for some New York slot venues. The commission’s slot management system was left inoperable for a time on Oct. 17, affecting some operators.

“Everi, the licensed operator of New York’s video lottery gaming central system, experienced a cybersecurity event that remains under investigation,” commission representative Brad Maione told the New York Post. “The commission has no indication that personal identifiable information was compromised. The Commission continues to monitor the situation.”

Latest Casino Industry Entity Victimized by Cyber Attack

MGM Resorts was recently victimized in a cyber attack that crippled many of the company’s operations around the country, including slot machines. In Canada, Gateway Casinos experienced a similar issue in April, leading to the closure of several casinos north of the border.

Caesars Entertainment also saw a similar ransomware attack as well. That company chose instead to pay a $30 million ransom to regain access to its computer systems, according to the Wall Street Journal. That may have been the best financial decision, given MGM recent disclosure that the hack will cost the company upwards of $100 million before insurance payouts.

New York State Gaming Commission representatives don’t believe any personal data was retrieved by hackers during the Empire State attack. The commission continues to investigate, but the attack has been another wake-up call for some in the industry.

“We shut down for a brief period,” James Featherstonhaugh, a part owner of Saratoga Casino, told the Post. “It got cleared up fairly quickly. It was all the same issue. It got everyone’s attention.”

Prevention Steps

Cyber crimes have cost MGM, Caesars, and Gateway millions of dollars in lost revenue and additional IT work. As the industry faces a growing number of cyber security issues, some experts say additional planning and training could…

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Cloud gaming outfit Shadow warns hackers stole users’ personal info during a security breach

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Shadow, the French cloud gaming company that allows subscribers to run games via high-powered PCs over the internet, has emailed customers to warn them that it has suffered a security breach in which customer data was stolen. While Shadow hasn’t confirmed how many people were affected, it’s thought that around 530,000 users have had their information stolen.

In an email sent to customers and reported on by TechCrunch, Shadow said that it was the victim of a social engineering attack that targeted one of its employees at the end of September 2023. The attack apparently began on Discord and then resulted in the employee downloading a game on Steam at the suggestion of a third party. That third party was also a victim of the attack.

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The data itself was collected after the attacker was able to gain access to an as-yet-unnamed software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider.

TechCrunch reports that an individual on a popular hacking forum has already claimed responsibility for the attack, saying that they are now willing to sell the data after being ignored by Shadow. The post says that the data covers more than 530,000 people.

As for Shadow, it hasn’t confirmed how many people are impacted nor exactly which service the attacker was able to access. They did say which types of data were stolen, however, with full names, email addresses, dates of birth, billing addresses, and credit card expiry dates all swiped. Shadow does say that there were no passwords or sensitive banking data taken during the attack, however.

Shadow also warned customers to be on the lookout for any suspicious emails and to set up multi-factor authentication on their accounts.

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Asus TUF Gaming TUF-AX4200 router review

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Man, Asus makes a lot of routers. This one, built of charcoal-coloured plastic Batman might consider too aggressively angular, is a dual-band Wi-Fi 6 job with four Ethernet ports, four antennas, and a single USB port.

Compared with some, that’s an uninspiring number of appendages, but it really is all you need for a satisfying network experience if you’re just trying to share a broadband hookup between a gaming PC, a smart TV, and everybody’s phone. Asus also makes a point of the AX4200’s open NAT and ease of port forwarding, which will make stable online gaming connections easier.

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