| In the game of World of Warcraft, there are those | | | | protect your account. |
| who try to steal virtual items and convert them into | | | | What this does is combat against one of the most |
| real world currency. The trick is to get people's login | | | | effective ways of stealing your password. These are |
| names and passwords to hack into the account and | | | | keyloggers. These are spyware or malware that are |
| steal the virtual gold to sell to others for real money. | | | | on your machine that are logging all your keystrokes. |
| There are some tricks to avoiding this. | | | | These are used to harvest names and passwords |
| There is a tool that has been available for sometime | | | | from people's computers to steal banking information |
| that may in the near be required for games like | | | | as well as other important logins. Since your |
| World of Warcraft. It's called the Blizzard | | | | password changes by the minute with an |
| Authenticator. These types of devices have been | | | | authentication device, the password that would be |
| used for quite sometime for accounts that need an | | | | stolen with a keylogger would be an old password |
| extra layer of security outside the gaming world. | | | | that would no longer work. |
| This small device has a button on it that needs to be | | | | On the plus side you have some extra added |
| pushed to give you your password. This password | | | | security. The negative is that you have to have this |
| changes by the minute meaning that as soon as you | | | | device with you if you want to play the game. If you |
| see what you new password is, you need to put | | | | were to lose or misplace the device or not have it |
| that into your account so that you can login. This | | | | with you while at a friend's house, you could not gain |
| physical device costs around $7 and can be used to | | | | access to your account until you retrieved it. |