{"id":65725,"date":"2014-06-09T12:27:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T10:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=65725"},"modified":"2014-06-09T12:32:55","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T10:32:55","slug":"watch-dogs-inspires-real-life-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/65725-watch-dogs-inspires-real-life-hackers","title":{"rendered":"Watch Dogs inspires real life hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Centre for Internet Strategy (CIS) has warned security officials to be on the lookout for an increase in &#8220;amateur hackers&#8221; following the release of <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/65543-watch-dogs-problems-remain-a-problem.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Watch Dogs<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;CIS believes it is likely that a small percent of Watch Dog players will experiment with compromising computers and electronic systems outside of game play,&#8221; said the CIS in a leaked report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The warning coincides with the hacking of several digital highway traffic signs in the US, which were made to display messages such as: &#8220;Godzilla Attack! Turn Back&#8221;, and &#8220;Hack by Sun Hacker&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The country&#8217;s Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team, or ICS-CERT, advised the sign operators to take defensive measures against hackers by updating access credentials and stepping up security around access points to the signs.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_65729\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Godzilla-is-coming.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65729\" class=\"size-large wp-image-65729\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Godzilla-is-coming-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"Godzilla is coming\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Godzilla-is-coming-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Godzilla-is-coming-267x150.jpg 267w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Godzilla-is-coming-625x350.jpg 625w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Godzilla-is-coming.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-65729\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Godzilla is coming<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/65661-100gb-of-adsl-data-for-free.html\">100GB of ADSL data for free<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/65531-battlefield-4-gets-netcode-improvement-patch.html\">Battlefield 4 gets netcode improvement patch<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/65555-playstation-store-launches-pre-e3-game-sale.html\">PlayStation Store launches pre-E3 game sale<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch Dogs is getting the blame for real life hacking shenanigans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":53362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6532,21,4771],"class_list":["post-65725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-hackers","tag-headline","tag-watch-dogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65743,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65725\/revisions\/65743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}