Blizzard shines the spotlight on account security

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1-30-2010 @ 7:04PM

vern said...

A lot of the trouble is coming from booby trapped web pages.
All it takes is a bad URL to a trapped page and a script runs a Flash exploit and you have a keylogger installed on your PC.
The best of all antivirus only covers 72% of 0 days exploits.
See here:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/182539/advanced_antivirus.html

What you need to do:

1- Make sure your Flash Player is up to date:
http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

2- Use the addon NOSCRIPT with Firefox and just keep a very maximum of 10 trusted sites in your whitelist (delete and restart the whitelist every month or so).
http://noscript.net/

Its very very very easy to get hacked just by surfing if you don't follow those advices.
The authenticator just protects WOW but what about identity theft (social security #) and financial information potentially stolen?

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