Posted in Uncategorized on September 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The BBC have reported this week that a player has sold his WoW account for £5,000 in a confirmed sale ($10,000). While admittedly the Account had the most highly geared rogue currently in the game on it. It does start to beg the question of the size of this secondary market. Already we’ve heard/read that [...]
Posted in Crime, Fraud, Software Vulnerability on September 24, 2007 | No Comments »
The Symantec Corp’s latest report on the security threat to the Internet (Vol.XII) has some interesting detail on the increasing attempts to hack virtual worlds and the lure of their virtual currencies. Link here.
Posted in News on September 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This Thursday an opinion piece by me regarding the use of virtual worlds in education and the security/safety issues surrounding them is going to be published by the Times Higher Education Supplement (THES); one of the leading education publications in the UK. I simply couldn’t help myself dropping in the words “Certainly, as a lead contributor [...]
Posted in Extremism/Terrorism on September 18, 2007 | No Comments »
Inside the virtual war on terror
The internet has replaced Middle Eastern camps as the recruiting and training grounds for would-be Islamist terrorists, an expert has warned. Professor Paul Wilkinson said the al-Qaeda terror network used the web to host an “encyclopaedia” of weaponry, bomb making techniques and tactics.
The [...]
Posted in Extremism/Terrorism on September 13, 2007 | No Comments »
The article states the project is analyzing all extremist and terrorist content from the web but this doesn’t appear to include virtual worlds. I would imagine other tools would have to be developed to examine virtual worlds in the same way.
From the National Science Foundation: [...]
Posted in Fraud, Money Laundering, News on September 6, 2007 | No Comments »
Singapore based FirstMeta has launched the first virtual currency credit card.
Full story over at techcrunch.
