[D3LTA26]

A lot of you are probably wondering about why LIVE is being gay right now and when you try to connect to LIVE the LIVE and Games windows don't pop up right away...this is what is going on. Apparently, somebody uploaded a virus onto one of Microsofts servers so that is why we are all experiencing problems at the moment. That's right....its not just you. We are all suffering right now.

[SLPLS1]

Originally Posted by D3LTA26

A lot of you are probably wondering about why LIVE is being gay right now and when you try to connect to LIVE the LIVE and Games windows don't pop up right away...this is what is going on. Apparently, somebody uploaded a virus onto one of Microsofts servers so that is why we are all experiencing problems at the moment. That's right....its not just you. We are all suffering right now.

Are you serious! That's what this whole thing has been about, they've been having problems ever since Christmas.

This is going to be a major problem for the future. I just read in the newspaper a few days ago that hackers have been getting in everywhere. I'm not surprised they are starting to get into xbox live now.

The loss or theft of personal data, such as credit card and Social Security numbers, soared to unprecedented levels in 2007, and the trend isn't expected to change anytime soon as hackers stay a step ahead of security.

Although companies, government agencies, schools and other institutions are spending more to protect ever-increasing volumes of data with more sophisticated firewalls and encryption, the investment often is too little too late.

"More of them are experiencing data breaches, and they're responding to them in a reactive way, rather than proactively looking at the company's security and seeing where the holes might be," said Linda Foley, who founded the San Diego-based Identity Theft Resource Center after becoming an identity theft victim herself.

Foley's group lists more than 79 million records reported compromised in the United States through Dec. 18. That's a nearly fourfold increase from the nearly 20 million records reported in all of 2006.

Another group, Attrition.org, estimates more than 162 million records compromised through Dec. 21 in the United States and overseas. Attrition reported 49 million last year.

The biggest difference between the groups' counts is Attrition.org's estimate that 94 million records were exposed in a theft of credit card data at TJX Cos., the owner of discount stores including T.J. Maxx and Marshalls.

The Identity Theft Resource Center counts about 46 million -- the number of records TJX acknowledged in March were compromised. Attrition's figure is based on estimates from Visa and MasterCard officials who were deposed in a lawsuit that banks filed against TJX.

By either count, the breach accounts for more than half the total records reported lost this year on each group's list.

The breach is believed to have started when hackers intercepted wireless transfers of customer information at two Marshalls stores in Miami -- an entry point that led the hackers to eventually break into TJX's central databases.

TJX has said that before the breach, which was revealed in January, it invested millions of dollars on computer security and believed its security was comparable to that of many major retailers.

With wireless data transmission more common, hackers increasingly are expected to target what many experts see as a major vulnerability. Eavesdroppers appear to be learning how to bypass security safeguards faster than ever before, said Jay Tumas, the head of Harvard University's network operations.

"Within a year or two, these folks are catching up," he said.

The two nonprofit groups' 2007 data also show rising numbers of incidents in which employees lose sensitive data, as opposed to cases of hacking.

Besides TJX's problem, major 2007 breaches included lost data disks with bank account numbers in Britain, a hacker attack of a U.S.-based online broker's database, and a scam that got résumé contact information from a U.S. online jobs site.

"A lot of breaches are due to inadequate information handling, such as laptop computers with Social Security numbers on them that are lost," Foley said. "This is human error, and something that's completely avoidable, as opposed to a hacker breaking into your computer system."

Attrition and the Identity Theft Resource Center acknowledge many breaches may be missing from their lists because the two nonprofits largely count incidents reported in the credible news media.

Media coverage has risen in part because of the growing number of states requiring businesses and institutions to publicly disclose data losses. Michigan, 36 other states and Washington, D.C., now have such requirements.

[stish704]

hhmmmmmm,I wondered how long it would take for some shit to put a virus on the xbox servers.....what is there problem?

[Cogan83]

I heard that they were going to be giving all Gold members a free XBLA game to download. I think that was at the start of the month but haven't heard anything else about it since.

[D3LTA26]

Originally Posted by Cogan83

I heard that they were going to be giving all Gold members a free XBLA game to download. I think that was at the start of the month but haven't heard anything else about it since.

Yup. I just saw a thread on here talking about that. It was just announced that Gold members can download Undertow for free starting on January 23rd and ending on the 27th.

[stish704]

Originally Posted by D3LTA26

Yup. I just saw a thread on here talking about that. It was just announced that Gold members can download Undertow for free starting on January 23rd and ending on the 27th.

Can you understand why they put on a limited time scale for this to be downloaded?
Imagine if you just got the red ring of death,xbox is being repaired and you have no chance of downloading this?
I bet microsoft won't let you download it later!

[DARK SHADOW]

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