UK invades California in cyber MMORPG wargame
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Walk softly and carry a thin pipe All next week a worldwide virtual war is being fought. Soldiers, warships, jets, and unmanned drones from the US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand are combining in cyberspace to form "Task Force BISON," which will join NATO's "Task Force ATLANTICA" to mount massive amphibious landings in a conflict-stricken West African warzone.â¦
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The U.S. Navy and the University of Southern California have joined forces to create a virtual Iraq war to help soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
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The long arm of the net A businessman on holiday in Spain was able to alert police of a raid on his home in the UK because he'd invested in an expensive net-connected CCTV system. Engineering boss John Ellison, 52, watched the attack on his Lancaster home unfold on a laptop PC he'd taken on holiday with him to Malaga, Spain.â¦
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Virtual communities threatened with real laws A UK government minister made a virtual pledge to police virtual worlds this week, as the problems of the real world are increasingly reflected in the likes of Second Life.â¦
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Australia and the United States launched their biggest joint war games Monday, with 27,500 troops backed by a U.S. aircraft carrier engaging in exercises aimed at consolidating the allies' military dominance in the Asia Pacific region.
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Firth and degredation Hackers turned the Forth Road Bridge website into a filth jamboree after breaking into its systems to plant script designed to redirect surfers to a Turkish site hosting malware.â¦Learn &amp; Contribute, Live &amp; Online - The Register Debates Green Computing
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Six days a week, teens crowd the Blue Screen Gaming cybercafe to hunt each other down with assault rifles inside virtual computer worlds. In these video game halls, nobody gets hurt...
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Massively Multiplayer Online games built around battling Cimmerians, sea-faring pirates and classic Order-versus-Destruction factions throw down the gauntlet. A sneak peek at the best new MMOs of 2008.
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Sims, FPS, MMOs...and now Xbox 360 controllers for war-bots The convergence between videogaming and real-world warfare (at least, war as seen from a Western perspective) continues to advance.â¦
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Storms of flying phalluses, mutilated Furries, ruined $10,000 battleships -- it's all the work of griefers, the sociopaths of virtual worlds.
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British-based cell phone group mmO2 Plc and Japanese mobile operator NTT DoCoMo Inc said on Tuesday they have signed a deal allowing mmO2 to launch an i-mode Internet service in Britain, Germany and Ireland.
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The Isle of Man, located in the British Isles and internationally recognized for its pro-business environment, today announced that mmO2 will deploy Europe's first super fast, third generation (3G) mobile data ...
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Investor's Business Daily - British intelligence agency is recruiting video gamers for real-life spy missions. GCHQ, the surveillance arm of British intelligence, is placing ads on virtual billboards that appear in scenes in games such as "Splinter Cell" and "Need for Speed Carbon" played on Microsoft Xbox consoles and PCs in Britain. Other U.K. spy agencies are trying new tactics as well. The foreign intelligence service MI6 has begun recruiting through a new Web site. Its domestic counterpart, MI5, is placing ads on buses and inside women's gyms in a bid to attract diverse job candidates.
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The British makers of the Grand Theft Auto video game are aggressively pursuing whoever leaked its newest version, San Andreas to the Internet.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Hackers attacked the computer network at the Naval War College in Newport, taking down the school's network for more than two weeks, including some e-mail services and the college's Web site.
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The U.S. military on Saturday launched a five-day war game to see how space-based assets such as satellite communications and precision bomb guidance systems would fare in a hypothetical war against terrorism in 2020.
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These armies of zombie PCs are used by cybercriminals for sending spam. Part of a series on hot security topics.