If IвЂ™m being generous, it does bear a vague resemblance to brute force attacks, which are kinda big right now. Not sure what this has to do with hacking unless hacking IRL has something to do with Sudoku. When you try to hack a computer youвЂ™re shown this number matrix and youвЂ™re trying to select the correct numbers from the matrix. Philip: The hacking mini game was total baloney. The most cringeworthy cybersecurity moment? IвЂ™ve put roughly 200 hours into Cyberpunk, and spend a long time looking at hacking in games generally.

IвЂ™ve played games dating back to the Atari 2600 days, have worked on a few titles you wonвЂ™t have heard of many moons ago, and particularly enjoy modding the guts out of Bethesda titles. I work at Malwarebytes so I must know something about cybersecurity, but when it comes down to how threats operate on a technical level, I turn to the experts, like Chris.Д¬hris Boyd:В IвЂ™m a Lead Malware Intelligence Analyst for Malwarebytes. I played on Google Stadia (donвЂ™t hate me). All in, IвЂ™ve sunk about 70 hours into the game. Now I play a few major releases per year. Philip Christian: Hi! I was an avid gamer through college.

SPOILER ALERT: This discussion covers some major plot points. And if we get to talk about video games for work, weвЂ™re all for it. So, the two members of the Malwarebytes Labs staff who actually played the game were asked to weigh in on cybersecurity in Cyberpunk 2077.

Since Cyberpunk features computers, hacking, viruses, and has the word вЂњcyberвЂќ in the title, we obviously had to write about it. In fact, falling victim to a computer virus is central to the gameвЂ™s plot. And itвЂ™s still possible to get a computer virus. The Internet (or Net, as itвЂ™s called in the game) looks about the same as it does in real life, with players browsing websites on a monitor, a mouse, and keyboard. Hacking, virtual reality, body modification, sentient computer AIs-itвЂ™s all in there.ДЇor all its high tech wonder, some aspects of day to day life in Night City feel familiar. Taking place in a fictional American metropolis known as Night City during the year 2077, this dystopian vision of the future attempts to cram every single sci-fi cyberpunk trope into one 30 hour game. Arguably, a big part of CyberpunkвЂ™s appeal is its setting. In spite of countless, often embarrassing, bugs CDPR created an engrossing open world RPG that even the gameвЂ™s detractors canвЂ™t stop hate-playing. Of course weвЂ™re talking about Cyberpunk 2077, the latest game from Polish developer CD Projekt Red. What game caused some players to experience seizures, allows you to have unauthorized sex with Keanu Reeves, features a lead character who canвЂ™t keep the contents of his pants contained, was pulled from the PlayStation Store weeks after release, and still managed to shatter sales and streaming records?

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