WoW security: now better than most banks.

2008-07-04 Thread Perry E. Metzger
My bank doesn't provide any sort of authentication for logging in to bank accounts other than passwords. However, Blizzard now allows you to get a one time password keychain frob to log in to your World of Warcraft account. http://eu.blizzard.com/en/press/080626-ba.html Perry --

German banks liable for phishing (really: keylogging) attacks

2008-07-04 Thread Stephan Neuhaus
This article: http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,563606,00.html (sorry, German only) describes a judgment made by a German district court which says that banks are liable for damages due to phishing attacks. In the case in question, a customer was the victim of a keylogger even though