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August 12, 2018 08:52 pm GMT
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Dozens of Vegas slots went offline simultaneously during a hacker convention
The casino is "pretty certain" it wasn't hacked.
The annual DEF CON hacking convention returned once again to Las Vegas this weekend, and with it came the typical good-natured mischief that's bound to happen when thousands of cybersecurity professionals congregate in one spot. Early Saturday morning at the Linq casino, however, looked to be something else entirely.
It was around 1:00 or 2:00 a.m. and DEF CON attendee Matt Anderson was hanging out at the Linq — a casino just across the street from Caesars Palace, the convention's host — when it happened: Dozens of slot machines went down, all at once. Read more...
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