Month: June 2013

LAPD faces off with Call of Duty statue in game studio raid

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Credit: Activision) In this day and age, perhaps it’s not the best idea to erect a life-size statue of a gunman and place it in the front window of your office. Yet this is precisely what the Los Angeles Police Department confronted late Thursday night when officers stormed the building of game studio Robotoki. The LAPD, guns drawn, faced off with a gun-wielding, very human-like replica of soldier Simon “Ghost” Riley from Robotoki’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 — that and a very startled Robert Bowling, the company’s president, who happened to be working late that night.

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Google push for faster zero day fixes hits a wall: Other companies

A Web site malicious code injection, which uses the kind of exploit Google is hoping to encourage companies to patch faster when discovered. (Credit: AlienVault) Google has undertaken what some might call a Sisyphean effort: to get technology companies to patch publicly unknown security vulnerabilities, referred to as “zero day” exploits, more quickly. In a blog post published Wednesday, two Google security engineers advised their counterparts at other companies to respond to actively exploited zero days within seven days

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