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In the past few decades, people all over the world have been all too eager to embrace the technological revolution. One in every 4 Australian homes now owns a least one computer. But few people have stopped to realize that in accepting these changes so readily, we have opened a virtual Pandora's box. Our homes are an open book to hackers, our credit card numbers available to cyber-thieves and the stock market is a virtual playground …

…completely safe from these attacks is to stay of the Internet all together. But it is too late for most of us now, entranced by the lure of having the world at our fingertips, blissfully unaware of the danger that awaits us every time we log on to the World Wide Web. Unfortunately we, as the general public are caught in the crossfire of this information battle and become little more than casualties of war.