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Heads up: Phishers making better use of address lists...
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Post by
seebs
I use tagged addresses, meaning that each site I use has a unique address which is not used with any other sites.
I'm getting phish attacks regularly to the email addresses I used with wowinterface and the elitist jerks forums. Meaning that, if you've registered at those sites, you may be too -- and if you used an address that's normally secret, this might make the phishes seem more plausible.
(I know for sure the wowi people already know about the attack, not so sure about EJ.)
Post by
TheReal
Just remember that if you're not addressed by your first name in an email from Blizzard, the chances are that email is not from Blizzard.
Post by
Robyn
So do I, and I've noticed that mmosite, aionsource and curse have (at the very least) had their email address databases hacked at some point.
A few basics that I'd recommend:
- use at least 2 email addresses, one 'safe' (for use by banks, big companies, etc), one 'casual'
- use strong passwords (nonsense words with a few numbers thrown in are best)
- don't use the same passwords for important and unimportant sites (ie battle.net vs forums)
- preferably use a password manager, i like LastPass
There's been a bit of a spike in wow phishing spam recently too, even the scammers are gearing up for the Cataclysm release ;p
Post by
Gnub
And the incredibly obvious one: Don't have your e-mail address shown publicly on your profile on such sites.
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Post by
Robyn
Oh yea, and use Firefox, or Chrome, or IE8... avoid Safari and old versions of IE.
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Post by
seebs
Yeah, official Blizzard letters also don't have that many spelling errors, and aren't sent from a hotmail account.
The reason I brought this up had to do with the multiple email addresses thing; some people might, say, have a special address they use only on a couple of WoW sites, which is also their battle.net address, or something crazy like that... and that might make it seem more plausible, at first.
Still not very convincing, IMHO, but... They're certainly trying harder. (And remember to forward phish emails to hacks@, so Blizzard can possibly do something about the sites.)
Cool trivia point: Ceasing to play WoW has not, in fact, remotely dimmed my undying hatred for the phishers, gold sellers, and so on. In fact, now I'm even more annoyed by them because they're wasting my time even worse by trying to trick me with stupid stuff like a cataclysm beta signup that I don't even need... (Actually, I'm in the beta, for all the good it does me.)
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Post by
TheReal
The emails only "look real" if they address you by your first name. Otherwise, they do not look real.
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Post by
theredshore
Oh yea, and use Firefox, or Chrome, or IE8... avoid Safari and old versions of IE.
Why not safari? I've been using it for a while now and I've been getting about 2-3 emails from "noreply@blizzard.com" always saying my account is insecure ( I realized it was fake straight away, luckily) Is there any link between browser and these emails?
Post by
theredshore
In addition, recently one of them had my first ever WoW character name as my account name and my first ever WoW password which phased me a lot ( as I made that account/character in vanilla). I bit disconcerting given the eminent release of cataclysm and the subsequent ending of my exams. As long as I have my authenticator will everything be okay?
Post by
Murrdurr
I made a gmail account for the sole purpose as my wow login and nothing else ever, guess how many emails are in my spam folder? thats right 0
Post by
Robyn
Oh yea, and use Firefox, or Chrome, or IE8... avoid Safari and old versions of IE.
Why not safari? I've been using it for a while now and I've been getting about 2-3 emails from "noreply@blizzard.com" always saying my account is insecure ( I realized it was fake straight away, luckily) Is there any link between browser and these emails?
Not a direct link with the emails, but Safari is actually the most-easily hacked browser on the planet, worse than IE6. It pretty much always is the target for winners in 'who can hack browsers the fastest' security competitions. Which means that if you're browsing somewhat dodgy gaming sites, you may get trojan'ed. Happens easily, I've come across stuff in character banner cards on normal forums like these.
Interestingly, Chrome is very secure even though both use the same WebKit rendering engine. The difference is, Chrome implements a sandbox around WebKit, which means that any hacks need to get through not one but two layers of defenses.
Post by
theredshore
I see... and running all this on one of the newest Mac doesn't make a difference? ( currently on a 27" i5 Mac ) I know how Mac users boast about not being able to get viruses and what not...I don't tend to believe it. Is it all a load of crap?
Post by
TheReal
Mac users get fewer viruses because fewer viruses are written that target it. Windows is the most widely used OS, so logic follows that a virus author will write a virus to target Windows. Macs are just as vulnerable as PCs.
Post by
Robyn
Mac users get fewer viruses because fewer viruses are written that target it. Windows is the most widely used OS, so logic follows that a virus author will write a virus to target Windows. Macs are just as vulnerable as PCs.
The full picture is a little more complicated. The underlying unix nature of OS X means that it is a little more robust, but the system can still be rooted since the consumer nature of the OS means root priviliges are more accessible than they would be on say a FreeBSD box. In terms of real security Win7 is pretty good as well, and patched Vista is not bad, but anyone still on XP should be considering an upgrade.
It's definitely true that there are many fewer virusses out there for OS X, so the chances that you'll run into one are smaller ;)
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