Dial-In Authenticator is Live!
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 8:07 pm
I know this is not directly guild related, but here at Trash Mob Death Machine, we are very much concerned with your account security.
I have written posts about the security of the Authenticator, and how it's virtually unbreakable, at least feasibly for a company trying to make money off of mass account jacking. Most gold farming companies will even place "authenticators need not apply" at the end of their emails as to not waste valuable time that could be used getting profit off of another account. Many government agencies and private corporations use similar devices to authenticate access to their most secret data.
Up until now, the only ways to authenticate your account was to have an iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad/Android/Blackberry smart phone or pay $7 at the Blizzard store for the actual keychain device. Blizzard has released a "Dial-in" authentication service for World of Warcraft (at least in the North American region, so Gushma, you're outta luck).
The general gist of this is that you register a phone number on your battle.net account that will serve as your "authentication incoming number" and dial a toll free number when you log in. Dialing this number will then allow your computer to complete the log-in process so long as it's coming from the number on file.
Remember: No one thinks they can get hacked, until it happens. Then it becomes too real, too late.
MORE INFO ---> http://us.blizzard.com/support/article. ... rhtml=true
I have written posts about the security of the Authenticator, and how it's virtually unbreakable, at least feasibly for a company trying to make money off of mass account jacking. Most gold farming companies will even place "authenticators need not apply" at the end of their emails as to not waste valuable time that could be used getting profit off of another account. Many government agencies and private corporations use similar devices to authenticate access to their most secret data.
Up until now, the only ways to authenticate your account was to have an iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad/Android/Blackberry smart phone or pay $7 at the Blizzard store for the actual keychain device. Blizzard has released a "Dial-in" authentication service for World of Warcraft (at least in the North American region, so Gushma, you're outta luck).
The general gist of this is that you register a phone number on your battle.net account that will serve as your "authentication incoming number" and dial a toll free number when you log in. Dialing this number will then allow your computer to complete the log-in process so long as it's coming from the number on file.
Remember: No one thinks they can get hacked, until it happens. Then it becomes too real, too late.
MORE INFO ---> http://us.blizzard.com/support/article. ... rhtml=true