And this is whats news reporters say... Jordan Barlow also known as SabTheGod on the internet got into hacking via online gaming. He grew up on Xbox, and played others online competitively. One day, he was knocked offline mid-match, forfeiting the game. He discovered that this was done via a simple trick, where one gamer turns a script on his opponent’s IP address. He began using this same tactic himself. It was easy and required nothing more than off-the-shelf programs, like Cain and Able. It was a veil lifted. Xbox gamers know each other by their gamertags. And among young gamers it’s a lot cooler to have a simple gamertag like “Sab” than, say, “SabOhio.” Before Microsoft beefed up its security, getting a password-reset form on Windows Live (and thus hijacking a gamer tag) required only the name on the account and the last four digits and expiration date of the credit card on file. Jordan discovered that the person who owned the “Sab” gamer tag also had a Netflix account. And that’s how he became SabTheGod.
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 02:26:00 +0000