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The Pentagon's World of Warcraft Movie-Plot Threat

2008-09-18 13:29:12 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Warcraft: In a presentation late last week at the Director of National Intelligence Open Source Conference in Washington, Dr. Dwight Toavs, a professor at the Pentagon-funded National Defense University, gave a bit of a primer on virtual worlds to an audience largely ignorant about what happens in these online spaces. Then he launched into a...
 
 
 
 
 
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Searching for Terrorists in World of Warcraft

2008-03-11 14:42:08 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Warcraft. One of you wonders: "How can we get paid for doing this?" Another says: "I know; let's pretend we're fighting terrorism , and then get a government grant." Having eliminated all terrorism in the real world, the U.S. intelligence community is working to develop software that will detect violent extremists infiltrating World of...
 
 
 
 
 
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Pentagon Researcher Unveils Warcraft Terror Plot

2008-09-15 23:22:00 by Noah Shachtman in Wired Security
 
The American military and intelligence communities are increasingly worried that would-be bin Ladens might gather in a virtual world, to plan a real-life attack. Now, a Pentagon researcher has laid out how such a terror plot might unfold. The planning ground is World of Warcraft. The main target of this possibly-nuclear strike: the White House
 
 
 
 
 
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Show 016 - An Interview with Greg Hoglund

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2007-07-12 22:38:30 by rmacmich in The Silver Bullet Security Podcast
...Warcraft(r): An Exercise in Advanced Rootkit Design [rar, 2.35M Exploiting Online Games AWL Software Security Series
 
 
 
 
 
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Throw away your digital picture frames

2008-02-19 03:36:49 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...Warcraft, Runescape, and whatever else. I suppose losing their passwords to picture frames might help such people regain a tenuous foothold on reality
 
 
 
 
 
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McAfee: Virus writers going local

2008-02-21 10:24:38 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Online-banking password thieves in Brazil, World of Warcraft hacks in China, anti-file-sharing Trojans in Japan: Malware writers are starting to craft their wares to target specific audiences and locales
 
 
 
 
 
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Wi-Fi Group Finalizes Latest Wireless Flavor

2008-04-01 08:22:21 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...Warcraft Wi-Fi over Ethernet combines electromagnetic resonance--the ability of a EMF to excite signals in wires--with excess wired capacity in a manner similar to how broadband over powerline works. Where properly equipped 802.11af Ethernet switches and adapters are available, coupled with WOE-capable Wi-Fi systems, the Wi-Fi signals will...
 
 
 
 
 
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Software Innovation

2008-04-09 19:49:41 by mcurphey in Mark Curphey - SecurityBuddha.com
 
This great article about World of Warcraft that is well worth a read for anybody who is interested in frameworks, platforms and software innovation. Read Here
 
 
 
 
 
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RSA 2008 Keynote: John Thompson

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2008-04-09 23:02:00 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
...Warcraft level 70 accounts go for $4 and up This last point was interesting - a WoW account can be worth 100x that of a valid credit card number. As was said in the keynote "even in virtual worlds, there is real money for hackers On the other hand, there wasn't a lot of new information discussed concerning the title - information centric...
 
 
 
 
 
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Links for 2008-06-06 [del.icio.us]

2008-06-07 00:00:00 by Editor in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...Warcraft - OCRegister.com Intel Open Port: IT@Intel Blog: How do you measure something that doesn't happen Marissa Mayer's 9 Principles of Innovation | Fast Company