Get to Know How to Protect Your Wow Account

What do you use to protect your wow account and your computer?I’ve been writing and blogging about World of Warcraft for many years and as a result I receive my fair share of spam email. Many of these are ‘Phishing’ attempts – email, faked to look like it comes from an authentic source (in this case Blizzard) with the aim of stealing my account username and password. Being a Net citizen for many years, I’m fairly wise to these scams. In addition, my email system nearly always flags them correctly as spam.Wow Pandaria Gold,  But I’ve noticed an increasing number of these emails hitting my in-box Get to Know How to Protect Your Wow Account.

How Secure Is Your Account? 
Phishing emails nearly always use scare tactics to get you to logon to a bogus site. Once the bad guys have your username and password, your account is raided and your gold looted. All those hours of leveling, raiding and playing the Auction House wiped out in minutes. Unfortunately,Wow Gold 90,  no matter how obscure your username or how cryptic your password, it won’t protect you against this type of deception. Computer security folks call the use of just a username and password a ‘weak’ form of authentication (the process of identifying yourself using a set of credentials).

It’s Authentication, Jim, But Not As We Know It! 
Being an online service, Blizzard (and many banking services) has long known that to really protect an account from the bad guys you need a stronger form of authentication. To this end Blizzard introduced an additional security measure that players can associate with their account. It’s called an Authenticator.

Don’t even know who you are (besides some guy on Wowhead with anger issues who cannot spell simple words properly).A traditional username and password type of authentication relies on just one secret piece of information: the password, something only you should know (unless you’re scammed into giving it away). Wow Gold Lvl90, Get to Know How to Protect Your Wow Account With an Authenticator attached to your account you’re required to provide two pieces of information to logon: something you know (your password) and a one-time password generated every few minutes from a specific device (something you physically have). This is called ‘Two Factor Authentication’ and is very strong. Even if the bad guys scam your password, they can’t get into your account without being in the possession of your personal authenticator.

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