Internet Security

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Repost from another thread but I am a huge advocate of protecting yourself and opening your eyes and stop saying "IT CAN'T HAPPEN TO ME"
Anyhow, I beg of you as my frineds please read and don't be lazy about it because it CAN and DOES happen to good honest people, and not just on WoW but in other things.... Anyhow enjoy...

Not rallying against authinticators, despite the fact they were cracked after being out for a week but,

A few notes from the IT world and practices I use for WOW and all my finacial associated stuff and like me you can be authinticator and worry free(relatively)

- most hacks now come from one of two places
- people use the same password on their wow account as they use for wow associated forums, sites, etc. This is a bad idea. Unique password, apply this to anything important. I use a common password for unimportant crap and unique passwords for my banks, wow, etc.

The forum, website, etc gets hacked into, the hackers then apply your email and that sites password to WOW, bam they are in. They never have to infiltrate YOUR personal PC.


- Links in emails, websites, etc. This especially applies to RL stuff like bank accounts- if YOU didn't SPECIFICALLY request a link, I.E. password reset, in email DON'T CLICK IT!!
EVER!!! /cough FACEBOOK<-----full of mailicious links

Even regular looking emails from my bank, I go to google/my fav folder and find my way there. Ghost sites are HUGE right now and successful.
"Sir, please visit your bank site/blizz site/etc, we are offering a special deal on xxx/get a beta key/we owe you money/etcetc" you click the link, it's a public site so ghosting it is easy, you log in, pretty normal, you even do nomal looking things on the site you know and trust, except it isn't a real site. The Web addr looks correct but if you opened the properties to it you would see the rest of the address that isn't displayed and it's not the same. Anyhow, now they have your info.


- Last one(this is for gen public) Gold buying, if the gold seller/toon leveler/etc wants you account info to transfer gold, find another site. Don't ever give out your info. Not saying(nor do I care) anyone here uses these services and I don't either but we ALL prob know someone who has who subsequently, it may have been 6 months down the road, got mysteriously "hacked"


Not saying you are guilty of any of this either Accra but some of these are easy simple mistakes that close friends of mine, depsite my preaching internet security have done with their bank accounts and had their identity stolen.
1 in 3 americans has some/all of their info stolen. Most of us don't make enough for it to end up being used against us but the threat is real. Be safe.


V/R
John "Saurial"