http://angelsofsecurity.com/blog Musings of an infosec renegade Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:01:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://angelsofsecurity.com/blog/2008/07/01/wow-to-go-to-two-factor-identification/ http://angelsofsecurity.com/blog/2008/07/01/wow-to-go-to-two-factor-identification/#comments Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:36:25 +0000 admin http://angelsofsecurity.com/blog/2008/07/01/wow-to-go-to-two-factor-identification/ 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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