Here’s some troubling news for my fellow World of Warcraft players. It seems that hackers, account thieves, and other miscreants have now embraced man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks to further their evil ways. Blizzard says it’s not a widespread issue, and it’s rather difficult to pull off, but it’s something y’all should be aware of.

The deal is that WoW hackers are able to infect your PC—this is a PC-only problem, mind you, so Mac players can more or less ignore all of this—with a bit of malware that’s then able to initiate the MITM attack. The purpose of this is to intercept your login name, password, and authenticator number so that they can log into your account. Once online, they can do whatever it is you’d be able to do inside the game world: sell items, mail gold to other players, etc. They cannot, it should be noted, delete your actual account or anything like that. Still, it’s potentially devastating, selling all your epics for fast gold, then turning around and selling that gold for real money to someone else.

MITM attacks aren’t new or anything. There’s plenty of programs out there can initiate them rather easily, letting people intercept passwords, instant messages, you name it. They work in that they sit in between your PC and the server you’re trying to connect to. So, if you’re playing WoW, instead of your username and password and authenticator number going directly to Blizzard’s servers, they first go to the hacker’s rogue server, which then passes the info onto your intended server, capturing the information in the process. It’s essentially invisible to you, the end-user, which is why the attacks are so dangerous.

Blizzard has already identified the piece of malware that initiates the MITM attack, so be on the lookout for emcor.dll. Be sure to keep your anti-virus software up to date.

One final bit: the odds of you being a victim of such an attack are quite low, if only because it requires so much work for the hacker to pull off; you’d have to be hacked a the very moment he wants to break into your account, and that’s something that simply doesn’t happen. Rather, your account will be compromised on, say, Monday, but it won’t be until the following Saturday that the hacker actually access your account. And again, the worst thing that could happen with this kind of attack would be for someone to sell off your character’s items and gold, then, for good measure, delete your character—your actual account cannot be tampered with. That may be a distinction without meaning, yes.

So yeah, just be sure to keep your anti-virus software up to date, and keep your wits about you. Stay away from the shady parts of the Internet!

via wow.com

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My wife also had to go to her office till 6pm in the evening. My children would come back residence from their school in the evening by 4 pm. It was a matter of only 2 to 3 hrs the complete day that the nanny had to take of my children, but I did not want any type of risk provided for my children. I wanted the security of my family at any cost. I could now concentrate on my work without any worry. If you are also really concerned about your family’s safety then you can also install a spy cam in your house.

What is the allure of cheating in video games online? Who takes team deathmatches so seriously that he needs unlimited ammo, no clipping, infinite life, and other assorted nonsense? It’s stupid, and if you try to cheat online you deserve to be banned. So forgive me for not giving a damn about the 2,500 people that were just banned from non-dedicated servers for cheating in Modern Warfare 2.

The news broke on Twitter, as it often does these days, that Steam has slapped the taste out of the mouth of 2,500 miscreants caught using some of those Modern Warfare 2 exploits.

I’d pretend to care, but that would be half-hearted at best.

And wasn’t Infinity Ward’s peer-to-peer model supposed to cut down on cheating?

And while I began this a few words ago wondering why people cheat, well, the answer is irrelevant; people cheat online. It happens. In fact, I ran into some cheaters in Team Fortress 2 at the weekend. Know what I did? Changed servers. Problem solved.

Salutations should be given to the flip side of the new age living style. Nowadays we have less time and more work to finish up. We all have to work hard for a healthy living and when we seem to have less time and more work, then we may feel constantly pressed and monitored and we can hardly have time to relax and then our sentiments will start playing with us. We will become hyper. We can ignore all this. Obviously when we have a large business to look after with no one else to take care of or help us along, then we may become hyper at times. It is true that one person cannot be at all the places at all the times together. We need an alternative. There are alternative today which we can depend upon. We can bring changes in our life style and bring new innovative equipments which will take care of all our problems and it will also work efficiently for us. I always wanted something pioneering for my office. And as soon as I came to about the hidden cameras I decided to have a look at them and their features through the website. Buying products online have nowadays become a trend and it also saves time for many people.

As I mentioned before that I had a look at the various cameras on the website, I decided to buy a CCTV camera for my office and I wanted to install them as soon as I could. I placed an order for it and then it was shipped in my house within a few days. Now I was in peace of mind that I would run my business very efficiently. It is not only that we can use the hidden cameras for the safety of the business, but we can use it everywhere and anywhere. It can be installed at every public place like the bus stand, the railway station, at the malls, at the disco restaurants, at the traffic signals or many more places where we feel that some miscreants may create problem. Nowadays it has also become necessary to install the hidden cameras at the various universities where the examinations take place to avoid the children to cheat.  While using hidden cameras it is usually kept in mind that it is used for the safety of the either our selves or the natives when installed at various places. So even I decided to use the latest technology and equipment to have a look at the mischief if anything is going in my office.

My neighbour was once complaining to my wife against the nanny which she had employed for the safety of her baby. She was suspecting her behaviour. She was worried to how to protect her baby from the misbehaviour of the nanny. Because we had already installed a hidden camera in our office, my wife knew about it. She suggested the neighbour to install a nanny cams in her house so that she could come to know about the ill treatment which the nanny was giving to her baby. She considered it and immediately her problem was solved.