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MMORPG Developers Warned of Security Risks

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-always-just-a-game dept.

phantomfive writes "According to an article on ZDNet, hackers are now targeting players of MMORPGs (mainly WOW), stealing their passwords, then selling their gold/equipment for money in the real world. Microsoft security development engineer Dave Weinstein warned developers of the new dangers their titles face at the company's annual Gamefest event." From the article: "Online game accounts are already on sale in the black market next to stolen credit card accounts, fraudulent passports, fake work papers and other illegal items gathered by identity theft. In fact, some game accounts can be worth up to $10,000. 'For a lot of the customers out there, there is more store value on their MMO characters than there is on the credit card with which they pay for the account,' said Weinstein."

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  1. Hey... by repruhsent · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...did anyone catch the story a couple of minutes ago on the front page about OpenOffice.org's security issues? This was posted Sunday, duped yesterday by Digg, and Zonk duped it again a few minutes ago, but it disappeared. Is this the first time that a story has been yanked because of a dupe?

    1. Re:Hey... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      that is definitely not a first, Zonk just corrected his mistake

      we should point some of the blame on the /. readers that keep submitting the dupe stories!

      are they purposely trying to screw up the /. moderators?

    2. Re:Hey... by repruhsent · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You can't really blame the readers I don't think, not even the ones who are submitting the dupes; the editors are the ones who post the stories, so there's really no reason at all why they have to post the same story time after time after time. On Digg, dupes are usually buried quickly; however on Slashdot, CmdrTaco is such a Nazi over control that we can't remove dupes, so they stick.

      The first step towards ridding Slashdot of dupes is Taco getting off his lazy ass and implementing a story moderation feature, so entire stories can be moderated "redundant," which I guess is the closest thing the current moderation system has for "dupe."