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08-11-2012, 05:56 AM
Once again hackers have wrought havoc on another popular website and this time it's the super popular BlizzardBattle.net.
BlizzardBattle.net is the home of such video online games such as World of Warcraft and more. The hackers this time exposed millions of users' email addresses. According to the BBC Blizzard's top exec Mike Morhaime has stated that the attack occurred on August 4th. The emails and security questions of users of the North American servers was compromised. This means that users in Canada, Latin America, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and Australia were compromised. The hackers reportedly also nailed what is referred to as a cryptographic scrambled password list. The scrambled password list is not likely to be deciphered however.
Users' accounts aren't expected to be compromised as all the hackers got that was legible are the email addresses.
This has been a problem with several online gaming sites. Of note was the massive attack a while back with the Playstation scandal. That network got hit hard by hackers and the damage is still being felt. The big concern however is that children play on these networks. It's a huge past time for them and the industry itself makes billions of dollars from it. The legal conflicts of such events as well as law enforcements ability to handle them really put a taxing problem on their resources. The companies themselves have to shore up security just to stay one step ahead on a daily basis.
In the case of the Blizzard hacking, just the emails were compromised and that poses another problem with email spam hacking which is probably going to go on for months if not a year to handle. The participants of the Blizzard website have to take precautions and measures against this and that calls for vigilance on their part. They'll have to be on top of emails coming in from false Blizzard emails asking for passwords or putting links in the emails that might lead to viruses, worms, and trojans. The anti-virus software companies are going to have to be on their toes as well. They'll need to keep an eye out for the types of malware that will appear in the email links and make sure they have the counter measures in tact.
Parents of the younger players will have to work with their kids as well as the official Blizzard website to make sure the accounts are safe. Blizzard itself is going to have to go a bit further in insuring the stability of their website and work hand in hand with the rest their community to establish new and more secure guidelines to prevent and remedy the situation. There can be no compromise in getting this stuff done and they'll have to keep up with it until the perpetrators are caught as well as continue efforts in preventative security procedures.
It can be scary when hackers breach a site where kids are participating. One never knows what sinister forces are out there and this incident is proof of the need for cyber security at a maximum.
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BlizzardBattle.net is the home of such video online games such as World of Warcraft and more. The hackers this time exposed millions of users' email addresses. According to the BBC Blizzard's top exec Mike Morhaime has stated that the attack occurred on August 4th. The emails and security questions of users of the North American servers was compromised. This means that users in Canada, Latin America, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and Australia were compromised. The hackers reportedly also nailed what is referred to as a cryptographic scrambled password list. The scrambled password list is not likely to be deciphered however.
Users' accounts aren't expected to be compromised as all the hackers got that was legible are the email addresses.
This has been a problem with several online gaming sites. Of note was the massive attack a while back with the Playstation scandal. That network got hit hard by hackers and the damage is still being felt. The big concern however is that children play on these networks. It's a huge past time for them and the industry itself makes billions of dollars from it. The legal conflicts of such events as well as law enforcements ability to handle them really put a taxing problem on their resources. The companies themselves have to shore up security just to stay one step ahead on a daily basis.
In the case of the Blizzard hacking, just the emails were compromised and that poses another problem with email spam hacking which is probably going to go on for months if not a year to handle. The participants of the Blizzard website have to take precautions and measures against this and that calls for vigilance on their part. They'll have to be on top of emails coming in from false Blizzard emails asking for passwords or putting links in the emails that might lead to viruses, worms, and trojans. The anti-virus software companies are going to have to be on their toes as well. They'll need to keep an eye out for the types of malware that will appear in the email links and make sure they have the counter measures in tact.
Parents of the younger players will have to work with their kids as well as the official Blizzard website to make sure the accounts are safe. Blizzard itself is going to have to go a bit further in insuring the stability of their website and work hand in hand with the rest their community to establish new and more secure guidelines to prevent and remedy the situation. There can be no compromise in getting this stuff done and they'll have to keep up with it until the perpetrators are caught as well as continue efforts in preventative security procedures.
It can be scary when hackers breach a site where kids are participating. One never knows what sinister forces are out there and this incident is proof of the need for cyber security at a maximum.
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