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Hackers target Xbox Live players

21 Feb

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Many of us are competitive in nature and like to win when we are playing against someone else.  But how far would you go to ensure that you won?

For those people playing Halo 3 on the Xbox Live, it seems that you can go all out to get your revenge on someone who has beaten you in a game.

A team of hackers have started to sell a ‘service’ that finds your opponent’s IP address, launches a denial of service attack and effectively blocks them out of the game for a period of time.

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Cybercrime threat rising sharply

01 Feb

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Cybercrime has been around for almost as long as we have had the internet but it now seems to be escalating almost out of control with experts saying that we have seen more in the last year than the past five years combined.

Online theft is now costing in the region of $1 trillion a year and unfortunately this figure is only going to grow because many people do not know how to protect themselves.

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