minecraft
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While This Discord Group Recreates Australia in Minecraft, We Have 17 Iconic Landmarks for Them To Include
A group of Minecraft players on Discord is building Australia in a one-to-one ratio recreation of the planet. Build The Earth is a global initiative by diehard Minecraft fans to build the planet one block city and country at a time. As they explain on their website: “One block in Minecraft equates roughly to one…
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This Minecraft Library Provides A Platform For Censored Journalists
Today is World Day Against Cyber Censorship. Launched by Reporters Without Borders in 2008, its goal is to raise awareness of how various governments around the world are censoring free speech online, whether it’s by blocking keywords on social media, removing individual articles and blogs, or in extreme cases, jailing and executing those individuals. With…
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Hackers Behind The Botnet That Broke The Internet Are Basically Cops Now
The three architects of the Mirai botnet just wanted to devise a scheme to make some money in the competitive business of hosting Minecraft servers. The weapon they built ended up showing the world how dangerous DDoS attacks can be. Now their lives have taken another unexpected turn, as the US Justice Department has given…
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Symantec Concludes Just Eight Google Play ‘Minecraft’ Apps May Have Added Millions To Botnets
In a blog post on Wednesday, Symantec security researchers wrote they had discovered at least eight Google Play Store apps that functioned as fronts for a “new and highly prevalent type of Android malware” called Android.Sockbot. The apps in question presented themselves as skins for player characters in popular app Minecraft: Pocket Edition and boasted…