Video Games
Cloud, News, Video Games,
Cyrex Break Down Hardware Barriers with New Game Streaming Technology
For decades now, access to gaming hardware, machines, and accessories has been a major barrier to entry for players everywhere. From today, those barriers will get a little easier to navigate. We’d like to introduce Cyrex GST. Our new game streaming technology (GST) allows video games developers to port their games to the cloud for direct streaming on both PC ...
21 October 2020
Case Study, Security, Video Games,
A Study In Success: Testing MovieStarPlanet 2
We consider ourselves lucky to be able to do work we’re passionate about in an industry we love. For the entire Cyrex team, working with video games has been a lifelong ambition and seeing our cybersecurity and development skills succeed in making games and online spaces safer for players and developers alike is when we’re at our most fulfiled in ...
12 August 2020
Security, Video Games,
Game Security: Protecting Your Bottom Line
For those of us who grew up before the true tech boom, the term ‘hacker’ and the idea of hacking as a viable, ethical professional field can sometimes be dismissed or misunderstood. It can conjure distorted images of shut-in, anarchist rogue agents with a flair for disruption. Sometimes we think of Hollywood images of Mathew Broderick in War Games or ...
22 June 2020
Security, Video Games,
Nintendo’s NNID Hack: The Impact of Authentication Flaws
The entire games industry and news media set have been talking this week about the recent update on the scale of the cyberattack on Nintendo’s Network ID infrastructure. With the confirmed number of breaches now over 300,000, as well as a potential similarly large number of account hijackings as a result, we think now is an ideal time to give ...
16 June 2020
Security, Video Games,
Do Online Games Pose Greater Cyber Risks?
As cybersecurity experts working in the games industry, perhaps the most common question we hear all the time is ‘What type of game is most likely to be hacked?’ Generally speaking, all games are hackable in theory and there isn’t really a hierarchy for one type or genre being more or less hackable than any other. Mobile games, for instance, ...
11 June 2020
Security, Video Games,
5 Common Security Pitfalls in Gaming
Security will always be a hot button issue in the games industry. Questions like ‘how easy is it for players to cheat in my game?’, ‘am I doing enough to comply with data privacy laws?’, and ‘how much of my profits am I losing through in-game cheating?’ are timeless and will always be at the forefront of a developer’s mind ...
15 April 2020
Video Games,
Cyrex Cybersecurity Experts Visit Gameforge HQ
Cyrex’s cybersecurity experts Mathieu Huysman and Tim De Wachter paid a visit to Gameforge’s German headquarters to partake in the company’s annual festivities as valued collaborators of the online gaming giant. Our team recently joined Gameforge at their headquarters in Karlsruhe to participate in their annual team celebrations, a date carved out to show the publisher’s appreciation for its sterling ...
30 July 2019
News, Security, Video Games,
Cyrex to Launch Bug Bounty Platform to Identify Vulnerabilities in Game Software
Pioneering cybersecurity services provider Cyrex’s latest venture will call on the hacking community to identify and exploit game-breaking vulnerabilities and security flaws in video games. Cyrex has announced a major expansion of its cybersecurity division as it looks to bridge the gap between game developers and cheaters (those exploiting in-game vulnerabilities), uniting them under a symbiotic cybersecurity banner. While cheaters ...
11 April 2019
