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  -- Walt Disney

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Back to Basics Internet Safety: Phishing Scams

This is the second in a series of articles with some simple but important tips on how you can keep safe on the internet. [...]

Valve Sued Over Breach Of Steam Servers

Krypton Radio Special Report

On November 30, 2011 – Lawyers for California resident Oliver Grigsby, filed suit on Wednesday, on behalf of all users of the online Steam gaming service, owned by Washington based company Valve Software. [...]

Truth and Lies – the League Response

How a handful of facts and a tidal wave of lies were used in a failed attempt to have the Justice League Unlimited removed from Second Life – an examination of propaganda techniques used by the Anonymous internet troll group “The Wrong Hands” against an online citizen’s watch and charity organization who got in their way. [...]

Pottermore Launch Marred by Scammers and Hackers

J.K. Rowling’s “Pottermore” interactive web site promises a new reading experience centered around the seven Harry Potter novels, with additional content written by Rowling fleshing out background information and settings as well as user-generated content expanding the story of Harry Potter, but hackers and scam artists are already trying to pry their way into the new online community… [...]

Alleged Top LulzSec Member Arrested by Scotland Yard

“Topiary”, spokeperson of the so-called “hacktivist” group calling itself Lulzsec, captured last Wednesday by Scotland Yard. One by one, the lulz are coming to an end. [...]

Woodbury Banned a Third Time, SL-Bronies Take a Hit

Krypton Radio Special Report

The griefing organization known collectively as Woodbury University has for the third and hopefully final time been kicked from Second Life. [...]

Dumpster Knights – The True Face of Hacktivism

They’re like a bunch of garbagemen, trash-pickers who found a couple of old suits of armor in a dumpster and now think they’re knights … LulzSec “Hacktivists” unmasked. [...]

The Griefer Mindset: Who They Are and Why They Do It

  Editorial by Vagabond ‘Tony’ Carter

We’ve all seen them… rezzing replicators, spamming regions with obscenities, flooding your screen with whimsical to pornographic images and sounds. Crashing sims and viewers for fun, and with countless other attacks they claim it’s ‘just a game‘ and “we do it for the lulz” – even using illegal computer programs to steal from legitimate real life (RL) businesses, and harass residents in-world.  Some going so far as to track down a resident’s real life information and make harassing or threatening phone calls, and in very rare cases a few have traveled miles to mock their victims at their doorstep with veiled or direct threats. Who are these people and what motivates them? While the term is used in nearly all multiplayer online games,  in Linden Lab’s Second Life and other MMO’s we call them Griefers.

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