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WoW to go to two factor identification

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Piggybacking on something I wrote about earlier, with the proliferation of WoW credential stealing bots, WoW is now offering two-factor authentication to its users. It makes sense frankly. WoW needs to keep their customers happy to keep their bottom line, and they’ve begun to realize that all passwords are inherently weak.

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malware steals game credentials

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

According to the statistics from Microsoft’s malicious software removal tool, trojan horses designed to steal online game credentials are now more prevalent than more traditional trojans which simply turn a PC into part of a DDoS zombie network. Frankly this doesn’t surprise me too much. After all the main driver behind botnets these days is purely monetary. Since multiplayer games are now also an economic engine, it makes sense for virus writers to start going after them.

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