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
- Panda Global
-- Nintendo chosen partner for first official SSB tournament
-- SWT alleges that Panda attempted sabotage
- Nintendo Statement
-- 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
Sources:
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
Who is Last Pass:
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
Nov 30 update
- 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.
Sources:
Earlier this year:
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/
