Hackers target world's most popular multiplayer online role-playing game with promise of a new mount.




Hackers target world’s most popular multiplayer online role-playing game with promise of a new mount.

World of Warcraft players desperate for a new mount to traverse the online role-playing game’s fantasy world are getting a reality check from hackers who have devised a clever pop-up phishing scam to spread malware.

Security technicians at F-Secure Security Lab on Tuesday posted a blog entry Tuesday detailing the latest scam making its way through the world’s most popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG).

With more than 11.5 million monthly subscribers, Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft is not only the most successful MMORPG in history, but also a very popular environment for hackers, phishers and assorted click-fraud scam artists.

This latest hoax preys on players’ desire to add mounts for their online avatars to ride. After clicking on a link to get a new trial mount, players are redirected to a malicious phishing Web site that mimics an official WoW page.

Those players who are still hard up for a mount are then prompted to enter their WoW log-in details.

“Apart from losing all the gold and items saved, a compromised account could also be used to send out the malicious messages to other victims, adding insult to injury,” the researchers warned in their blog post. “An interesting detail about this particular site is that a reverse-IP check on its IP address turned up over a dozen other WoW phishing sites.”

F-Secure officials remind players that phishing sites like the one identified today are blocked by the security firm’s browser protection software.

World of Warcraft holds an estimated 62 percent of the MMORPG market. The third expansion set, Cataclysm, was announced at the BlizzCon conference earlier this year.

With a subscriber base of over 11 million World of Warcraft is a great game all by itself. Shown here are 5 must have add-ons to help those who buy wow accounts, buy world of warcraft accounts, or buy aion accounts.

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1. QuestHelper: QuestHelper guides players on how to finish quests in the easiest, fastest manner. It includes a database of quests, monsters, and items, telling the exact location of that Perfect Satyr Horn you can't find. It also computes the fastest path to complete all quests - and gain experience - as quickly as possible.

2. AtlasLoot Enhanced: AtlasLoot Enhanced is an UI mod allowing for loot tables of bosses to be browsed whenever needed within the game. It can access full item tooltips, show drop rates, allow items to be chat linked and to use the dressing room.

3. Atlas Maps: For some reason, Blizzard decided to include beautiful maps for every area of Azeroth except instances. You can still see the area surrounding you in the minimap when you're in an instance, but never the overall layout of the entire dungeon. This is where Atlas comes in. The core of Atlas is basically an image viewer. However, it's the images that come with Atlas that make it worthwhile: a map for every instance in the game. Furthermore, the maps are marked with the locations of bosses and other points of interest. Atlas also includes maps of battlegrounds, dungeon locations, flight points, and outdoor raid bosses.

After installing Atlas, players notice a new icon on the minimap that looks like part of a little globe (right-click the icon to drag it around the minimap's frame). Click this icon to open up the main Atlas window, which displays the maps and legend. Alternatively use the slash-command /atlas. The drop-downs at the top of the window enable navigation between the maps. Lock it in place with the little lock button in the upper-right corner.

At the bottom of the legend is a small text-entry field as well as Search and Reset buttons. Type part of a word or name in the box and click the Search button, and the legend's entries are reduced to only those that match given text. Note that the search is performed only on the entries for the current map, not all the entries in the database. While not so useful for instances with only a few entries like Ragefire Chasm, the search comes in handy when there are a ton of entries, like for Blackrock Depths or the AtlasMajorCities plug-in.

4. Recount: Recount is a graphical damage meter written by Cryect. This damage meter is a lot of fun to have. It shows who is putting out the most damage in your group, sortable by DPS( damage per second) , Damage taken, healing done, over healing done and so much more. At least one person in every group asks to see the damage meter results. Everybody wants to know who is on top! It makes Instances a lot more fun to compete for the top DPS spot.

5. Healbot: - This AddOn allows for twenty key+mouse combinations to cast any beneficial spells and also allowing for twenty key mouse combinations to cast on disabled bars. Usable items can be added to all combos and any existing macro's can be added to all combos. Targeting, focus, and assist can be added to all combo's. Healbot also can track and display who has agro in any given encounter. Healbot also can be integrated to perform decursive functions, monitoring buffs, and buffing. Multiple healbots in a party or raid will sync incoming heals. Also built in is an accurate range check at all times for spells and items.

These add-ons are key in performing in end game raiding scenarios. Any customer who buy wow accounts, buy World of Warcraft account, or Buy aion accounts should immediately download them and become accustomed to their functionality.

I realize that this is totally out of context for this blog, but no one reads it anyways and I can vent my opinions freely.

Health care has been an issue for quite some time. I"m 34 years old and I have had insurance my entire life. In college I was on my parents, and when I became old enough and absolutely had to get a job I did and health care was part of the package. It's been something that I have definitely taken for granted. I have mixed feelings on "socialization" of health care. I have read many peoples opinions from the far right, to the far left ranging from "look at the VA hospital system", meaning that is government run and its bad. Taking a look at it though, I think that the people that say that are playing on the fears and memories of the baby boomers. I look at the VA system today and I see military people coming back from the desert needing prosthetic limbs and receiving them courtesy of the VA system, along with all of the aftercare that is needed for such procedures. Granted, in the 60s it seems that the VA system was flawed and did not take care of our vets as it should have. Their was a general apathy towards the war, and maybe in retrospect that played some part in it? I wasn't there to know for sure, and research will only take you so far in understanding how things were at that time. Now, however, they seem a lot better. Cleaner facilities from the ones I have seen, technologically advanced, and seemingly run according to a better standard in the past.

Let's look at the number of people that are currently without health care in the US. I never really understood how you can take a "survey" of in this case, 29k Americans and then document that as 16% of a group of people that numbers over 228,000,000. This defies logic to me. You would have to have such a diverse group of people surveyed to even come close to an accurate picture. One would have to ask, what is the demographic for this survey? Is it inner city D.C. or The Hamptons? Anyways, this recent Gallup poll surveyed more than 29,000 individuals in June, 2009. Their survey showed that 16% of Americans over the age of 18 are currently without health care.

Let's put that in perspective. Roughly 228,000,000 Americans over the age of 18. 16.6% do not have health insurance so 36.5 million people are without any health insurance at all. This does not count medicare or medicaid recipients which one would assume would run that number up a bit. I also learned something very interesting while researching all of this. 41% of Hispanic Americans are uninsured, which is by far the largest class that is not insured. Next are those that make less than 36k a year at 28.6% uninsured and then those ages 18-29 at 27.6%, and lets face it, they don't need insurance really anyways.

So, the people that stand to benefit the most from this are the Hispanics, lower middle class, and young Americans. So, pretty much the people that elected Obama. His speeches lately though have left much to be desired on the topic of health care as he tries to cater his words to both the left and the right it seems. Good thing everyone is so broke still that the economy is more of a worry or I think people would be more worried about this issue than they seem to be.

Then theres the studies that show that out of the total 47 million or so Americans that are uninsured totally, there are additionally around another 25 million that are under insured due to "caps" in coverage and cost of drugs and additional variables. These are the really the people that need insurance the post. Get diagnosed for a brain tumor for example and your insurance most likely covers up to $150k. Cost of surgery and treatment tops 250k for this leaving the "insured" on the hook for the rest. This, in my opinion is the strongest case for a National health care program there can be. Limits on cost, coverage for all, and limits on drug costs for everyone. Equal health care should be the norm for Americans as it is for the rest of the "enlightened world", but this is not so.


Why?

This months wired magazine has a very good write up on craigslist and the minimalistic nature of it and words from the founder. I found it an exceptionally good read, and refreshing in the world of the internet that everyone isn't stark raving mad with greed.

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/magazine/17-09/ff_craigslist

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