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Two young hackers have been convicted in Germany for stealing and leaking unreleased songs by top recording artists including Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake and Mariah Carey.The two hackers, identified only as Christian M., 23, and Deniz A., 18, managed to install trojans on computers belonging to the managers of high-... |
20 June 2011
11:14 GMT |
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The FBI announces that five more phishers arrested as part of Operation "Phish Phry" were convicted last week for their roles in an international phishing network dismantled in 2009.The latest convictions of Nichole Michelle Merzi, 25, of Oceanside; Anthony Donnel Fuller, 22, of Corona; Me Arlene Settle, 22, of Garde... |
29 March 2011
03:07 GMT |
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An Oklahoma jury found two Russian nationals residing in Miami guilty of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud, related to activities of money muling for Ukrainian cybercriminal gangs.According to the indictment, Dmitry Vladislavovich Krivosheev, 25, and Maxim Valeryevich Illarionov, 24, were both recruited ... |
20 October 2010
02:22 GMT |
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A former Fannie Mae computer engineer was convicted of computer intrusion for planting a hidden malicious program with the purpose of destroying all data on the mortgage giant's network.Rajendrasinh Babubhai Makwana, age 36, of Montgomery County, Maryland, worked as a UNIX engineer at Fannie Mae's Urbana T... |
6 October 2010
10:26 GMT |
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One of the most disturbing things a secret operative can expect, when infiltrating a secret facility used for nefarious purposes and facing more enemy guards than he can count, is hearing his own name called out by them. I was ready to hear a conversation or two, spoken in low voices, about that terror of a man Sam F... |
18 May 2010
18:41 GMT |
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There's quite a glut of weapons in Splinter Cell: Conviction. Enemies drop them when you take them out and for more options, there are stations allowing for both weapon changes and for upgrades to be applied.Sure, enemies mostly drop the exact same weapons as long as you do not change levels and the stations are... |
13 May 2010
18:31 GMT |
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Imagine you have a series of games built around creeping from shadow to shadow, taking out enemies silently and making sure you are never detected before the mission is accomplished. Imagine that after a pretty long wait, fans have the chance to see how the mechanics mentioned above were adapted to the standards of t... |
10 May 2010
10:31 GMT |
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One of the stated aims that Ubisoft wanted to reach with Splinter Cell: Conviction is to make the adventures of Sam Fisher more accessible to the wider gaming crowd, more interested in quick and lethal action in the spirit of James Bond than in the slow progress punctuated by situation evaluation that was the norm fo... |
7 May 2010
19:41 GMT |
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I have never cared much for Sam Fisher and the whole universe Tom Clancy and Ubisoft built around the character. I liked Hitman quite a bit more, even if the game was much harder and I never got to complete it. But judging by the long development process the most recent Sam Fisher adventure, Splinter Cell: Conviction... |
7 May 2010
16:51 GMT |
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Splinter Cell: Conviction is a videogame built, on the sentimental level, around the concept that a father and his child share a deep connection and that the concern for their safety trumps everything else. The developers at Ubisoft Montreal were not even particularly subtle about the theme, transporting Sam Fisher b... |
6 May 2010
18:51 GMT |
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Finally, the tyranny of Just Dance has been vanquished, when it comes to the chart tracking videogame sales in the United Kingdom. Splinter Cell: Conviction, the latest title from Ubisoft starring Sam Fisher, is sitting in number one in its first week on sale, showing that stealth kills and stalking still have an aud... |
22 April 2010
04:32 GMT |
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Ubisoft is already in quite a bit of hot water with PC gamers and the French publisher seems unable or unwilling to actually patch things up. And a recent announcement shows that the future might see the rift between the two parties increase, as the launch date for Splinter Cell: Conviction for the PC is not two full... |
7 April 2010
05:07 GMT |
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A former Barclays network security manager named Humza Zaman was sentenced to 46 months in prison for money-laundering charges in connection with the data breaches at TJX, Heartland Payment Systems and other companies. His role was to receive stolen money on behalf of Albert Gonzales, the notorious hacker who masterm... |
13 March 2010
06:28 GMT |
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A lot of people were annoyed when publisher Ubisoft announced that it planned to introduce a new anti-piracy scheme based around an online authentication every time the game is fired up and also on players being connected to the Internet and to the official servers for every second of every minute of playtime.The sch... |
23 February 2010
16:21 GMT |
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Ubisoft has offered up yet another release date for Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction, which has seen quite its share of delays during its long development history. The game is now set to be released on April 13, after previously being set to appear in late 2009, from where it was bumped by the launch of Mo... |
8 February 2010
05:55 GMT |
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Ubisoft has announced that it seeks to sell a Collector's Edition for Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction, which is planned to arrive on February 26, 2010. The game is set to come to the Xbox 360 home gaming console from Microsoft and to the PC, and the limited Collector's Edition will be available f... |
15 December 2009
13:11 GMT |
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After being delayed several times and even going through some major facelifts, it seems like Splinter Cell: Conviction will be, this time, released without further complications. To reassure us, several aspects of the game's co-op multiplayer modes have been made available by Ubisoft to the Official Xbox Magazin... |
10 December 2009
03:02 GMT |
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The U.S. Department of Justice announces that former spam kingpin Alan M. Ralsky was sentenced to 51 months in jail, on Monday, for instrumenting a stock fraud scheme. Nine of his accomplices have also received prison sentences for their role in the operation.Alan M. Ralsky, 64, of West Bloomfield, Michigan, used to ... |
25 November 2009
08:43 GMT |
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In October, a Collector's Edition of Splinter Cell: Conviction made an appearance on an Australian retailer's website. The pack, meant for the PC and Xbox 306, included a bonus DVD, a comic, a Sam Fisher figurine, and a code to download the original Xbox game Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory over Xbox Live. Not ... |
4 November 2009
04:51 GMT |
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Several of the games from Ubisoft that were delayed for 2010 will be delayed again. But, according to the company's CEO, Yves Guillemot, Splinter Cell: Conviction won't be one of them. At the Tokyo Games Show Ubisoft announced that the title would be released in February 2010, and so far they seem to keep t... |
24 September 2009
02:50 GMT |
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Ever since the dawn of videogaming, developers have been facing a conundrum: should they create longer experience so that players get a feeling that they have gotten their money's worth of an experience or should they create shorter games that everybody is able to finish?During the latest years, developers seem ... |
3 July 2009
05:23 GMT |
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Splinter Cell: Conviction is set to offer new multiplayer mechanics, when compared to previous titles in the series, which were focused on the mercenaries versus spies battle. Apparently, the new stealth action videogame from Ubisoft is also set to receive DLC, following the trend of all AAA titles released in the la... |
11 June 2009
05:06 GMT |
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Ubisoft has finally confirmed that Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction is still in development and that the title should be released during this fall for the Xbox 360 home gaming console from Microsoft. With development handled by Ubisoft Montreal, the game is set to tell the story of series hero Sam Fisher as... |
2 June 2009
18:11 GMT |
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There has been a lot of speculation lately on the subject of Splinter Cell: Conviction, the Sam Fisher-focused game that was supposed to come out in late 2007, after Ubisoft first talked about it back in 2006. Not only did the game not launch as predicted, but also no news has come from the French videogame company r... |
2 June 2008
16:06 GMT |
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The Splinter Cell franchise, starring square-jawed special forces operative Sam Fisher, is widely praised for the way it managed to blend action and stealth gameplay, all while delivering an intricate plot which is very Tom Clancy in its conspiracy upon conspiracy structure. However, it seems that following the relea... |
23 May 2008
16:11 GMT |
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Nigeria has a bad reputation for being involved in countless (really!) scams on the Internet, mostly having something to do with a grieving widow of a general killed in a fight for freedom, and the woman not being able to receive the money he had saved in a bank, several million dollars. I'm sure everybody recei... |
11 March 2008
08:19 GMT |
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The first ever felony conviction for illegal spamming in the United States has been affirmed once again, after Jeremy Jaynes of Raleigh, N.C. on the defending end, protested that Virginia's anti-spamming law violated the right to freedom of speech. He claimed that the law was against both the First Amendment and... |
3 March 2008
11:43 GMT |
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Word on the Internet is that the latest Splinter Cell installment from Ubisoft, Conviction, is not as possible with the PS3 as with the Xbox 360. Developers say that the Xbox 360's control scheme is much more advanced and allows a more complex amount of options that seem to be quite impossible with the PS3'... |
7 May 2007
18:46 GMT |
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If anyone tried to come up with a name for the next Splinter Cell game, it would have been anything but Splinter Cell: Conviction. But, as it turns out, this is the name of latest installment from Ubisoft Montreal (developers of Splinter Cell, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory and the 6th generation versions of Splinter Ce... |
3 May 2007
19:36 GMT |
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