#hacking games

I want to make a comprehensive guide to 100%’ing Gnosia, with a list of all the different events, dialogue options, etc. as I wasn’t satisfied with all the other walkthroughs (which only focus on obtaining all the notes to beat the game — which is fair).

I admit it, I’m bad about checking out browser-based games. Brilliant titles like Depression Quest often slip past me for months even when I’ve read numerous articles about them and made a point to play them. That was what happened with A Normal Lost Phone. I read about it, thought “that sounds amazing, I need to check it out” and then… just didn’t; even when it started coming up in my alerts for “games like Gone Home.” So when I saw it available on the App Store, I had to download it immediately and I’m glad I did.

The premise of A Normal Lost Phone is both simple and incredibly innovative. You have just found a phone and you are looking through it. That’s all. The entire interface of the game is a simulated phone with a handful of apps and the puzzles are essentially just figuring out various passwords and finding where to type them. But as you do that, two things start to happen: you begin to get drawn into the story of the person whose phone it was and you become increasingly aware of the fact that you are role-playing an invasion of privacy, effectively hacking a particularly vulnerable person to find out more details about their life.

Warning: spoilers for basically the entire game after the break.

US officially warns China is launching cyberattacks to steal coronavirus research –

Wednesday’s warning comes as tensions continue to escalate between Washington and Beijing with the two sides issuing verbal jabs over how each country is handling the pandemic. The Trump administration has also continued to attack the Chinese government for failing to be transparent about the origins of the outbreak. CNN has previously reported that the administration has pointed the finger at…

PayPal users targeted in new SMS phishing campaign

The scam starts with a text warning victims of suspicious activity on their accounts A new SMS-based phishing campaign is doing the rounds that attempts to part PayPal users from their account credentials and sensitive information, BleepingComputer reports. The ploy consists of SMS text messages that impersonate the popular payment processor and inform potential victims that their accounts have…