Cyber crime wave as Naomi enjoys second life in England
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Unsuspecting residents are lured in by shiny, foreign objects that unleash a self-replicating worm and bring the virtual world to a grinding halt. In Game|Life.
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Orderly, pornography-free and safe for children, "meet-me," an online interactive virtual Tokyo, is Japan's answer to "Second Life." Or so its creators hope.
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Newbie to the virtual world tries to find her way around the vast continent.
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Just before a global credit squeeze roiled US financial markets this summer, an equally dramatic financial crisis threatened Second Life, the much-hyped online world.
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I stepped into this virtual world and found a lot of sex--and a guide named Cristal
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A hacker has successfully attacked a Web page within Microsoft's U.K. domain.
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Passwords to popular online world Second Life may have been stolen in hack attack.
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Over the weekend, BBC Radio 1 kicked off the U.K. festival season with "The Big Weekend" in Dundee, Scotland, featuring acts like Pink, Snow Patrol and Mylo. But not all fans who caught the show did so in the real world. Instead, the BBC simulcast the concert on an island it created in Second Life, an online virtual world, where fans could listen to the music, mingle, dance, even dive down a mudslide&#x2014;all with no lines for the bathroom.
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What the business press didn't tell you Analysis Two weeks ago, business leaders at Davos gave their blessing to Linden Lab's Second Life. They hailed the spectacular growth of its virtual economy while politicians spoke of democracy itself moving into its online world.â¦
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Â· Website pictures return to haunt beauty queen  Â· Case raises questions over teenage internet privacy
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Earlier this year, one animated character in Second Life, a popular online fantasy world, allegedly raped another character.
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Also: The sound of hacked dolls' heads. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Anti-social networking The growing popularity of Web 2.0 as a venue for viruses, pedophiles and other online nasties made it only a matter of time before sleaze oozed to professional networking sites, and sure enough, an Australian security firm is offering a detailed postmortem on an attempted Nigerian banking scam on Ecademy.com.â¦
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Security researchers studying the latest Internet crime trends have discovered a new Eastern European website that uses a large botnet to infect vulnerable PCs. The operators of the botnet and website charge clients for each successful PC infection.
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More than 40 over-50s turned up at a special 'silver surfer's' day to try out a cyber cafe.   They were invited to Neuadd St Cattwg, Gelligaer, Caerphilly, to get a taste of using computers.
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Researchers show how objects with multimedia attributes within Second Life can unleash malware on unsuspecting users.