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Make sure your Adobe Flash is up to date!
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You may have seen the news a couple of months ago about the "PWN to OWN" challenge sponsored by TippingPoint in which a Windows Vista laptop, a MacBook Air, and a Linux laptop were to be given away (along with nice cash prizes) to the hackers who could be the first to break into them. The MacBook Air fell first (so very tempting a target it was), and then the Vista laptop, but the Linux laptop was never breached.
Well, the vulnerability that doomed the Vista laptop was in Adobe Flash. The bug was responsibly reported to Adobe, who fixed it in the most recent version (9.0.124.0) released last month.
Since then, it has been reported that the hackers with less noble intentions have seized upon that vulnerability and are now attacking PCs via Adobe Flash. If you have an older version of Flash, your PC could be pwned by merely visiting a web page that has any amount of Flash animation containing the exploit code. Your PC could become part of a botnet sending spam to the entire world or taking part in denial of service attacks, and all your passwords would be compromised as well.
What does all this have to do with gaming? Well, World of Warcraft passwords are known to be desirable; the criminal activity of pwning PCs has become yet another way of farming gold. Imagine logging into WoW and finding that all your characters are broke, or worse, that you can't even log in because your account has been suspended after hackers used it to send gold selling spam to other players!
So, make sure you have the latest version of Adobe Flash by going to http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/
[Submitted by WB]
Posted by WB on Saturday May 31 2008 - 20:10:02
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Issue 12 is Midnight Hour for Heroes and Villains
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NCsoft has announced its next free update to City of Heroes and City of Villains. Issue 12, titled "Midnight Hour", introduces a number of improvements and new content, including:
- The Midnight Squad (levels 10-20): The Midnight Squad holds a secret that could bring an end to the Rikti invasion but without your help it could be Lost forever.
- New Roman-Style Maps (levels 35-50): Heroes and villains both step foot upon the ancient land of the Roman Cimeroran Peninsula, where they battle deadly creatures, defend an ancient city and ultimately come face to face with the enemy of time itself. Throughout this journey players uncover the mysteries of power and the origins that guide them today. Accomplishments here will unlock Roman-style armor costume pieces.
- Villain Epic Archetypes: The Villain epics are finally here! Level 50 Villains may choose Wolf Spider or Blood Widow, each having distinctive storylines, missions, powersets and costumes. Each epic archetype has branching powersets, Wolf Spiders may specialize as Bane Spiders or Crab Spiders, while Blood Widows may specialize as Fortunata or Night Widows.
- Power Set Proliferation: New characters of almost every Hero and Villain archetype gain access to an additional primary and secondary powerset that they didn?t have access to previously. Details to come!
- Hollows Makeover: Significant changes have been made to the Hollows zone to make it more fun! NPC encounters have been rebalanced, including new spawns, new villain groups, mission door improvements, and a mobile hospital has been added to the entrance of the zone. Additionally, Meg Mason, a new contact, has been added to give out repeatable missions.
- New Power Trays: Eight configurable new power trays let players customize their User Interface by placing them anywhere on the screen.
- Contact display redesign: Contacts are now listed separately as Active and Inactive, and players can sort contacts by a range of criteria including Name, Zone, and Level Range.
- Inspiration Conversion: Right click an inspiration to convert three of that kind into any one inspiration of another kind.
- Level Up Boost: Upon reaching enough XP to level up (at all levels), one of each type of large inspiration is immediately cast upon your character, and health and endurance bars are immediately filled.
- Chat improvements: Right click on character names in chat window to ignore, add to friends list, invite to team, etc. Drag any item (enhancement, inspiration, salvage, etc.) into the chat window so that you and others can click a hotlink to view the complete info box.
- More Real Numbers: Players can now display stats on powers before they choose them enabling more informed power selection and new temporary powers allow players to display enemy stats.
[Submitted by WB]
Posted by WB on Monday March 17 2008 - 15:25:36
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