EA hasn’t been having the greatest past couple of weeks as the recent SimCity fiasco has lead to gamers everywhere realizing just how much they despise the publisher and just yesterday, EA CEO John Riccitiello resigned from the company for reasons yet to be made public. Now, it looks like there may be a huge security flaw in its Origin platform.
At a Black Hat security conference in Amsterdam last week, researchers at ReVuln were able to demonstrate a bug in EA’s Origin platform that could potentially allow hackers to take control of a PC remotely. An accompanying paper, entitled “EA Origin Insecurity: When Local Bugs Go Remote.. Again,” explains the exploit. (more…)
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