Security risk: Identity stole in video games.
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Video games developers has
been changing every year the way a player can play, enjoy, and overall interact
with other players. These days, players can perfectly interact with other
players that are in the side of world, by now only shooting bullets to each
other’s, as is the goal in the video game named: “Counter Strike”, which is a
shooter.
Players can also interact with each other’s by taking advantage of the
command voice, this to give indications to other players what to do in the
game. These players can use text chat in game and outside the game. One
platform that offers this interactivity is Steam®.
The company persuades new
and veteran players to join their community with the following advert:
Meet new people, join game
groups, form clans, chat in-game and more! With over 40 million potential
friends (or enemies), the fun never stops.
The advert above can push
new players to enlist in the Steam® community and get involved in the ways the
advert is describing. However, with this fascinating idea of make new potential
friends from around the world and have fun by playing together the latest video
game titles, there always people ready to take advantage of vulnerable players
that are not aware of what I called “the dark side of the video games”.
One of the common issues is
the scam, specially the stolen of identities. As we see, in Steam® players can
use “text chat” to send text messages but also links. While Steam® aware
players “to not interchange or disclose passwords” with other players, these
players, are still exposed to accidentally or by curiosity open links to
websites that can potentially stole the account details of such players.
These video game “pirates”
make usage of Trojans and worms to:
a) Stole Information of the account.
b) Send information as, passwords and other
very delicate information to a remote server.
c) Can emulate the website were the players is
login in to access the games.
