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Online dangers growing
Ben Furfie Sep 11 2007, 12:54pm
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Gaming at most risk with criminals targeting accounts to sell on characters and gold
Software company CA has published a report that warns of growing and more complex threats facing home PC users – including targeted identity theft, emerging risks associated with online gaming, a doubling of malware exploits and new software vulnerabilities.
According to CA, stealing online gaming accounts will become as profitable as stealing bank accounts. The report also states that malware designed to steal gaming account details is now the second most common malware seen this year and says that more often than not, in order to sell on characters and virtual money from the various online games.
The report also highlighted the growing menace of what is becoming known as "spear-phishing." According to CA, almost 3.25 million Americans have discovered that personal information has been used to open up credit cards and other debts – and according to the report, phishers are becoming more and more sophisticated with many now targeting victims based on their age, socio-economic background and status amongst other factors.
Interestingly, the report also highlighted that many users belief that Firefox is more secure and safe than Internet Explorer was not just unfounded – it was also dangerous because it risked lulling many tech-savvy Internet users into a false sense of security.
It also said that as more and more Macs move from offices into environments where people were using them for leisure, preconceptions that the Mac OS X is more secure than Windows will crumble. CA released figures for the amount of reported vulnerabilities for Windows XP was 29, Vista saw 19 while Apple's Mac OS X saw a staggering 51.
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Posted by: yx - Sep 13, 9:23am
"...that many users belief that..." ?
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Posted by: Pat - Sep 13, 4:52pm
So, which word in your quote was spelled incorrectly? They should have used the word believe instead of belief, but it appears to be spelled everything correctly.
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Posted by: Whisperwolf - Sep 14, 3:59am
It's actually correct.
Present tense: "Many users believe"
Past tense: "Many users belief" (as in, the belief of many users in something)
If there was an error it would be in the grammar, as it's debatable as to whether there should be an apostrophe at the end of "users" in the past tense.
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