GuardingPearSoftware

7 Feb

Cybersecurity is essential for game developers. It protects your player base, no one wants to play against cheaters, and safeguards your revenue. Hi, I’m Tim, founder of GuardingPearSoftware. Follow me for cybersecurity news, tips and tricks, and memes.

What's one tool or library you recently discovered that changed how you work?

What’s the most underrated skill for a game developer or designer to learn?

Common concern is chatbots giving wrong answers. The real danger is autonomous agents disrupting critical infrastructure. 5 expert insights on AI risk in this thread: 👇

5️⃣ Balanced oversight beats denial or panic. Dismissing all concerns or treating each as imminent fails; capabilities must not outpace control.

Read the full article here: https://www.guardingpearsoftware.com/blog/the-ai-endgame-what-experts-say-could-go-catastrophical-50793

Common concern is chatbots giving wrong answers. The real danger is autonomous agents disrupting critical infrastructure. 5 expert insights on AI risk in this thread: 👇

3️⃣ Synthetic media erodes shared facts. When people cannot agree on reality, communities struggle to respond to real emergencies.

4️⃣ Keep humans in lethal decisions. AI must not make irreversible calls on nuclear weapons or critical infrastructure without verified human control.

Common concern is chatbots giving wrong answers. The real danger is autonomous agents disrupting critical infrastructure. 5 expert insights on AI risk in this thread: 👇

1️⃣ AI agent swarms could disrupt critical systems within months. Anthropic CEO warned swarms could control large internet parts, hitting grids, water, finance.

2️⃣ AI agents act with limited human input. They can browse, write code, and complete tasks, enabling large-scale automated disruption.

I love seeing early prototypes that look terrible but solve the right problem. Got one?

What’s a piece of feedback that changed how you approach your work?

guardingpearsoftware.comThe AI Endgame: What Experts Say Could Go Catastrophically WrongArtificial intelligence is advancing at a remarkable pace, bringing new possibilities in science, healthcare, cybersecurity, and everyday life. But what if the same technology designed to make life easier ends up threatening humanity itself? Understanding the worst-case scenarios is becoming important as the technology grows more powerful.

Could AI lead to doomsday scenarios? From internet takeovers to nuclear conflict, experts discuss 5 major AI risks and how to mitigate them. Read here: https://www.guardingpearsoftware.com/blog/the-ai-endgame-what-experts-say-could-go-catastrophical-50793

If you could give one piece of advice to your junior self, what would it be?

FBI has arrested another suspected co-conspirator linked to ShinyHunters, according to director Kash Patel. ShinyHunters is the extortion group that breached the FBI’s jobs portal and stole sensitive information belonging to nearly all FBI agents and job applicants.

What’s a small thing in your workflow that saves you way more time than it should?

Most malware makes itself obvious with ransom notes. Cryptojacking profits by staying completely invisible. 5 hidden truths in this thread: 👇

5️⃣ Ad blockers and updates block common mining paths. Blockers stop browser scripts; patches close exploited flaws. Least-privilege cloud accounts limit damage from compromised credentials.

Read the full article here: https://www.guardingpearsoftware.com/blog/cryptojacking-explained-how-attackers-hijack-your-devic-74111

Most malware makes itself obvious with ransom notes. Cryptojacking profits by staying completely invisible. 5 hidden truths in this thread: 👇

3️⃣ Stolen cloud credentials create expensive mining instances. Attackers deploy GPU VMs on your account. The organization absorbs the bills, which can grow large if the activity goes unnoticed.

4️⃣ Prolonged mining overheats and wears out your hardware. Heavy processor load stresses cooling and components, reducing device lifespan beyond the extra electricity cost.

Most malware makes itself obvious with ransom notes. Cryptojacking profits by staying completely invisible. 5 hidden truths in this thread: 👇

1️⃣ Cryptojacking hides inside trusted software supply chains. Attackers embed miners in container images and apps. One malicious Docker image was downloaded over 100,000 times before detection.

2️⃣ Phishing messages install miners directly on your system. Malicious attachments or fake apps run on the OS, quietly consuming CPU and GPU while causing heat and slow performance.

Ever delete a whole feature right before launch? What made you pull the plug?

How do you decide when a project is ‘done enough’ to ship?

Stores like Steam are crowded and a good game can stay invisible. Five studios built audiences by posting raw, unfinished work long before launch. 5 lessons from their devlog habits: 👇

5️⃣ Recut the clips that already worked into your launch trailer. Pounce Light edited their announcement from TikTok footage that hit 21 million views, turning proven interest into 26k wishlists in two days.

Read the full article here: https://www.guardingpearsoftware.com/blog/successful-game-devlogs-5-studios-and-what-they-posted-12440

Stores like Steam are crowded and a good game can stay invisible. Five studios built audiences by posting raw, unfinished work long before launch. 5 lessons from their devlog habits: 👇

3️⃣ Explaining schedule shifts in public keeps a project alive during quiet months. ConcernedApe used dev updates to say why a date moved, so a silent period did not read as the game being abandoned.

4️⃣ An incomplete but playable build can serve as the devlog itself. Motion Twin put Dead Cells in Early Access at 30-40% complete, then used Steam posts to show new weapons and shape plans from feedback.

Stores like Steam are crowded and a good game can stay invisible. Five studios built audiences by posting raw, unfinished work long before launch. 5 lessons from their devlog habits: 👇

1️⃣ You can validate a game with devlog clips before building the full game. Pounce Light posted prototype castle builder videos to TikTok, found strangers wanted it, and grew a 25k newsletter from early clips.

2️⃣ A devlog can take any format as long as it shows active progress. ConcernedApe wrote essays, Pounce Light posted videos, Landfall shared GIFs, Coffee Stain streamed, Motion Twin used patch notes.

When a game mechanic clicks for players, that feeling is unbeatable. Share a win.

Security researchers successfully compromised Samsung’s Galaxy S26 three times during the Pwn2Own Ireland 2026 hacking competition. Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) organizes the event to identify zero-day vulnerabilities in fully patched devices before real-world attackers can exploit them.

Vendors are then given 90 days to address the reported flaws before ZDI publicly discloses the vulnerabilities.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/samsung-galaxy-s26-hacked-three-more-times-at-pwn2own-ireland/

What’s a design rule you follow most of the time, but break when it feels right?

Anthropic said that it is expanding Project Glasswing, the program that gives vetted cybersecurity professionals access to its advanced AI models. The company said its Project Glasswing identified at least 129,000 verified software vulnerabilities between April and July 2026.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/cyber-verification-program

Do you name your variables something silly in early drafts, or am I the only one?