Smash, Pass and Pilk

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/