Tag Archive for: Warcraft

Wikipedia and World of Warcraft Classic targeted by DDoS attacks

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Uou can imagine the pain that was caused to pub quiz cheats and students writing essays this weekend when crowd-sourced internet encyclopedia Wikipedia, one of the world’s most popular websites, was hit by a distributed denial-of-service attack.

Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

Graham Cluley

Phishers target World of Warcraft users with fake in-game pet offer

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Phishers targeting World of Warcraft users with fake in-game pet offer

Play World of Warcraft and keen to get your paws on an in-game pet? Be careful not to fall for their phishing attack.

David Bisson reports.

Graham Cluley

Griefers, not rapture, make thousands of World of Warcraft players drop dead

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If you are a gamer, then you really don’t want to see your avatar fall over dead. This weekend, entire virtual cities with thousands of World of Warcraft players suddenly keeled over.
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Ms. Smith’s blog