Virtual Worlds & Security


	Virtual Worlds & Security

Lara Nieberding

3-13-2008 11:01 AM

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				Canwest News Service</H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/business/story.html?id=04a01191-c03b-43e6-b818-7ad333bb70fd&p=1">Charlie Miller makes it his business to find such threats. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/business/story.html?id=04a01191-c03b-43e6-b818-7ad333bb70fd&p=1">He used a flaw in the QuickTime software provided by Apple, which Second Life's own software uses to play videos in the game. Creating a small pink box inside the game and wrapping it with a malicious video, Miller was able to remotely manipulate the computer of anyone who happened to interact with the object.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/business/story.html?id=04a01191-c03b-43e6-b818-7ad333bb70fd&p=1"><P>"We could take over their character and make it do things. For example, we determined how much virtual currency they owned, and then we made them transfer that to our character," he said, adding that because accounts in Second Life are linked to credit cards, he could force the victim's character to keep buying Linden dollars with their credit card and keep transferring the cash to his own account.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/business/story.html?id=04a01191-c03b-43e6-b818-7ad333bb70fd&p=1">most games offer a way to exchange in-game goods and currencies for real-world cash.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4BAFC2E6-FC3A-4964-A81F-600165AEBAB7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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