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Corder
Oct Member 2017

Corder

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https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/update-on-account-security--services

Points mentioned in the article as being worked on, or already introduced

Stronger Account Security
- More complex passwords
- Enhanced protection against brute force attempts
- Multi-authentication in events of losing access to your authenticator
- One master-login for all of your Runescape characters

Improved Player Support Centre
- Improvements to account recovery system
- Improvements to support centre, including live chat for some issues

The Jagex Launcher
- New beta available with more updates coming: https://www.jagex.com/en-GB/launcher

Reinforced Protection of Character Data
- Significantly improved cyber resilience with cloud based backups
- Login Lockout was a great learning point for this

The War On Bots
- Shutting down several cheating services, with 100k's of bots banned per week
- Continously improving anti-cheating technologies to prevent cheating

Safeguarding The Experience
Tackling real world trading by;
- Started issuing Gold Buyer warnings and timed/permanent bans
- Shutting down major gold providers
- Removed duel arena, involved in 38% of all RWT bans
- Limiting the incentives for hijackers to steal accounts by more efficiently blocking fraudelent payments


Check out the Runescape livestream on Wednesday (March 23) for more!!
https://www.twitch.tv/runescape
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21-Mar-2022 18:00:18

Loki
Sep Member 2011

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Shame there's no mention about being able to change log in usernames also. I remember a few years ago they mentioned it's a feature they'd like to add sometime in the future...
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21-Mar-2022 23:50:26

Corder
Oct Member 2017

Corder

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curious to see if that's something they'll be working on :O Life is like a camera: Just focus on what's important, capture the good times, develop from the negatives, and if things don't work out, take another shot !

22-Mar-2022 08:44:57

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