April 12, 2014
Blizzard and Battle.net security was *not* affected by the world-shaking Heartbleed OpenSSL security failure, but Blizzard suggests you change your Battle.net password if you use the same password for any of the millions of sites that were compromised.
June 9, 2013
A recent and depressing article on ArsTechnica details how easily and quickly crackers can break even quite lengthy and obscure passwords.
November 12, 2012
Blizzard has now responded to the action raised by Benjamin Bell, (we reported last week), in which he intends to sue Blizzard for “consumer fraud, unjust enrichment, negligence, breach of contract and bailment” . In addition he charges them with “negligently, deliberately, and/or recklessly fail to ensure that adequate, reasonable procedures safeguard the private information stored on this website. As a result of these acts, the private information of plaintiffs and class members has been compromised and/or stolen since at least 2007”.
November 9, 2012
We asked the other day if anyone missed maphack, and if such a program would even be useful in Diablo III. I hope none of you took that hypothetical too literally, since today Blizzard announced that an unspecified number of Diablo 3 players were banned for using third party programs.
August 14, 2012
Last week was a bad week for Blizzard and Battle.Net with the security being compromised and players passwords being nabbed. Blizzard were reasonably quick to inform everyone, but now the data is in the hands of hackers, how safe are the passwords with Blizzard’s method of encryption?
August 10, 2012
July 31, 2012
Some news to note if you are using the dial-in authenticator, not to be confused with the mobile authenticator.
