This week, we talk about Smash World Tour canceling all future events, Last Pass security breech and the details about what it is and why, and #pilk
Smash World Tour was one of the largest Smash Bros esports tournaments in operation,
with over 6,400 live events and 325,000 entrants across its 2022 activity alone.
- SWT is a grass roots Super Smash Bros esports competition
-- Next 2 events are shut down
--- San Antonio, TX and further 2023 events canceled
-- Issuing full refunds with travel arrangements for those affected
-- Notice came without warning
-- Hundreds of thousands of dollars lost due to abrupt cancelation by Nintendo
-- Requested to operate without a license as it had done previously
--- Was told those times are now over
-- SWT claims December's championship would have had the largest prize pool in Smash Bros history at over 250k
--- with plans to increase this to over 350k for the 2023 tour
-- Nintendo chosen partner for first official SSB tournament
-- SWT alleges that Panda attempted sabotage
-- Did not request cancelation of 2022 Championship Events considering negative impact on the players who were already planning to participate.
-- solely based on assessment of proposals submitted by SWT and evaluation of unlicensed activites
-- Not influenced by external partners such as Panda Global
-- Decision to cancel SWT 2022 was their own choice
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/nintendo-cancels-smash-world-tour-organisers-accuse-panda-global-of-sabotage
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/nintendo-partners-with-panda-global-to-launch-super-smash-bros-circuit
https://medium.com/@smashworldtour/smash-world-tour-official-statement-f568a3d135c8#40d4
https://kotaku.com/nintendo-smash-world-tour-fgc-shut-down-panda-esports-1849833867
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/nintendo-order-cancellation-of-smash-bros-tournament-over-mod-use
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/super-smash-bros-wont-be-at-evo-2022-next-month
https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-issues-full-statement-over-smash-world-tour-cancellation
Last Pass Security Breech
LastPass provides one of the most popular password management software in the world,
with the company claiming that it's used by over 33 million people and 100,000 businesses.
- August 25th Security breech
-- Internal access for 4 days until detected
- investigation done internally and in partnership with Mandiant
- Dev environment access -- Prod is separate so no customer data was accessed
-- Developer endpoint compromised
-- Dev is exclusively separate
-- attack after review did not find poisoned code or malicious injection
- Detected unusual activity within thrid-party cloud storage service.
- Determined that an unauthorized party using information in aug 22 incident was able to gain access to certain elements of customer information.
--Passwords remain safely encrypted using LastPass's Zero Knowledge architecture.
- No Specifics as to what information was accessed.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lastpass-says-hackers-had-internal-access-for-four-days/
https://www.securityweek.com/lastpass-found-no-code-injection-attempts-following-august-data-breach
https://www.govinfosecurity.com/hacker-accessed-lastpass-internal-system-for-4-days-a-20098
LastPass blog post 22 Nov 2022:
https://blog.lastpass.com/2022/11/notice-of-recent-security-incident/
