Breach of software maker used to backdoor as many as 200,000 servers

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Fishpig, a UK-based maker of e-commerce software used by as many as 200,000 websites, is urging customers to reinstall or update all existing program extensions after discovering a security breach of its distribution server that allowed criminals to surreptitiously backdoor customer systems. The unknown threat actors used their control of FishPig’s […]

Apex Legends Level Reset: Update issues bring servers down and purchase warning

Today’s new Apex Legends update has caused issues that have led to players losing their account progress and cosmetic items. This is affecting players on all platforms and appears directly tied to whatever changes were made to the game today. Since the release of Apex update 1.1, Respawn has taken the game servers offline for […]

Fallout 76 server maintenance schedule revealed as Bethesda take servers down TODAY

Fallout 76 servers are going down today for scheduled maintenance. Bethesda announced the news earlier today, making a slight change to plans shared by the development team. A new update was expected next week; however, Fallout 76 will now see downtime land later today. This will end in a new update for the PC platform, […]

Fortnite down on Xbox One servers with Black Ops 4, Destiny 2 and others

It has now been confirmed by Microsoft that gamers trying to play Fortnite, Black Ops 4 or Destiny 2 tonight, will run into issues. This is down to a problem with digital content and may not affect all players who own disc versions of these games. This will also be the reason why problems on […]

File-sharing software on state election servers could expose them to intruders

Enlarge / Stickers await residents who vote at the Parks and Recreation Center building on August 14, 2018, in Elkhorn, Wisconsin. (credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images) As recently as Monday, computer servers that powered Kentucky’s online voter registration and Wisconsin’s reporting of election results ran software that could potentially expose information to hackers or enable access […]

Sony goes back on 11-year-old promise to keep Warhawk servers up

Enlarge / The tank is Sony. The explosion is Warhawk players’ hopes and dreams. (credit: Sony) If you read Ars Technica (or simply play online games regularly), you’re probably accustomed to game makers shutting down online gameplay servers at will, often with little-to-no notice. When it comes to the impending server shutdown for early PS3 […]

PUBG Mobile update time: Servers DOWN as Tencent reveal 0.9 release news, download plans

PUBG Mobile update 0.9 arrives this week (Image: TENCENT) PUBG Mobile servers are going offline for an extended period, to make way for a new patch. The latest news shared by the Tencent team suggests this new scheduled maintenance will last for several hours. An in-game warning states that PUBG Mobile servers will be down […]

Trivial authentication bypass in libssh leaves servers wide open

Enlarge (credit: starwars.com) There’s a four-year-old bug in the Secure Shell implementation known as libssh that makes it trivial for just about anyone to gain unfettered administrative control of a vulnerable server. While the authentication-bypass flaw represents a major security hole that should be patched immediately, it wasn’t immediately clear what sites or devices were […]

Fortnite DOWN: Servers offline as Epic Games release update 5.40.2

Fans will have to wait until the game servers return before they can download the latest Fortnite Update. Fortnite servers are down for maintenance being performed by Epic Games this morning, which will be followed by two new patch releases. The first is billed as 5.40.2 and is actually more of a backend patch which […]

PUBG Mobile update: Servers DOWN as Tencent begin Sanhok 8.0 release

Tonight will see PUBG Mobile servers go offline for an extended period of time. According to the latest news shared by the Tencent team, this new scheduled maintenance will last around eight hours. However, there’s also the chance that this downtime will take less time, meaning PUBG Mobile might be back online sooner. It’s currently […]