Security Gaps in the Games Blizzard Threatens 500 Million Gamers

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Because almost all games released on the market
today always need internet connection, it is not impossible console or PC game that is used vulnerable hacking to user game account.

That's what can befall gamers loyal games made by Blizzard. Quoted from page Ubergizmo, Thursday (25/1/2018), researchers at Google to find games made by Blizzard was vulnerable to the action of hacking.

From data gamers revealed by Blizzard, there are about 500 million monthly active users whose accounts are threatened hacked.

Is Tavis Ormandy, as a researcher at Google who found the security hole. He found that hackers could hijack the Blizzard Update Agent tool of gamers from a distance.

Later, hijackers can use the tool to install malicious files, access the network, and so on.

Why only Blizzard game games that have a security hole? This is related because to play the game should open the Blizzard Update Agent tool.

Just for information, players must access the tool via Launcher Battlle.net (for PC gamers).

Blizzard Launches Update

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Get the report, Blizzard, as the developers of the game immediately launched a patch that aims to patch while the security hole.

The company also said, in the near future will launch a better update to patch the vulnerability.

No Longer Support Windows XP and Vista

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Some time ago, Blizzard announced no longer support his game for the operating system Windows XP and Vista.

As for a number of new game titles Blizzard, such as World of Warcraft, StarCraft II, Heroes of the Storm, Hearthstone, and Diablo III no longer be played on both Microsoft's old operating system.

The decision was announced by Blizzard Community Manager, Nate Valenta, via a forum on Blizzard's official website. He revealed that the game developer based in California, United States, it will stop all support for Windows XP and Vista as of October 2017.

"We all know, these two operating systems have been discontinued by Windows XP in 2009, Vista in 2002. Well, that time the number of our players is still a lot, so we insist to continue support," said Valenta Slashgear quoted on Tuesday (25 / 7/2017).

Therefore, Nate suggested to players who are still using Windows XP and Vista to immediately update their operating system to the latest, if you want to keep playing games made by Blizzard.

"After we stop the support, automatic games that are 'forced' in the operating system will no longer run, so it would be nice for players to upgrade their operating system to a newer version," he said.

Blizzard will also publish a step to update the operating system and specifications that are compatible with the game besutannya. They reveal, this ordinance will be published in the near future.


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