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Cyber crime unit saves UK economy £140m in six months
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3rd October 2011
A Metropolitan police unit claims to have saved the economy more than £140m in the past six months and is on course to exceed its four-year "harm reduction" target, the force said on Sunday.
The Met said the central e-crime unit had delivered nearly 30% of its £504m target during this period.
The figure relates to the amount of money the UK has been prevented from losing through cyber crime and follows a number of successful prosecutions and operations.
Funding of £30m has been provided over four years to support the development of the unit as it tackles computer intrusion, denial of service attacks and internet fraud.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Janet Williams said: "In the initial six-month period the unit, together with its partners in industry and international law enforcement, has excelled in its efforts to meet this substantial commitment and has delivered in excess of £140m of financial harm reduction to the UK economy. We hope to be able to better this result in the future as we expand our national capability."
5th September 2011
Stolen information worth £300m recovered by GCHQ
Details stolen from more than a million credit cards across Europe, worth an estimated £300 million, have been recovered by the GCHQ spy agency.Foreign Secretary Mr Hague, said the agency had joined forces with the Serious and Organised Crime Agency to obtain the information as part of the ongoing cyber war against foreign states and criminals.
A team of experts at GCHQ is understood to be working with the military to develop internet tools to strike back if states attack infrastructure such as water supplies, electricity and banking.
Mr Hague is seeking to agree new rules for cyberspace with China and Russia in order to put an end to such attacks.
5th September 2011
Turkish hacker group diverts users away from high-profile website
A Turkish hacker group diverted traffic to a number of high-profile websites including the Telegraph, UPS, Betfair, Vodafone, National Geographic, computer-maker Acer and technology news site the Register on Sunday night, putting unwary users at risk of having passwords, emails and other details stolen.
Industry experts warned people not to log on to sites such as Betfair because their details could be stolen.
2 September 2011
LulzSec and Anonymous Hackers Arrested
Two men have been arrested in connection with online attacks by hacking gangs Anonymous and LulzSec, Scotland Yard said.
The men, aged 24 and 20, were arrested on Thursday in Mexborough, near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, and Warminster, Wiltshire, for conspiring to commit offences under the Computer Misuse Act 1990.
Scotland Yard said the arrests were part of a continuing investigation in collaboration with the FBI, South Yorkshire Police and other law enforcement bodies, into activities of Anonymous and LulzSec, especially in connection with suspected offences under the cover of online identity "Kayla".
30th August 2011
U.K. Police Charge 17 Year Old in ‘Anonymous’ Hacking Probe
The 17-year-old, from Chester, will appear before magistrates next month accused of conspiracy to do an unauthorized act in relation to a computer, Scotland Yard said.
The boy has been granted bail to appear at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court on September 7.
British student Peter David Gibson, 22, from Hartlepool, will also face the court on that date charged with the same offense.
25th August 2011
Police Charge 22 Year Old in ‘Anonymous’ Hacking Probe
A 22-year-old man was charged with computer offenses by U.K. police investigating attacks on companies carried out by the hacking group Anonymous.
Peter David Gibson, a student from Hartlepool, England, was charged with a conspiracy to impair the operation of a computer or hinder access to a program or data, the Metropolitan Police in London said today in a statement. Gibson had been arrested along with five others by officers in connection with so-called denial of service attacks against several companies, the police said.
16th August 2011
Police accessed BlackBerry messages to thwart Riots
Scotland Yard stopped planned attacks by rioters on iconic sites across London hours before they were to take place after they managed to "break into" encrypted social messaging sites, it has emerged.
Attacks on the Olympics site, upmarket stores in Oxford circus and the two Westfield shopping centres in east and west London were plotted using BlackBerry Messenger.
Detectives made the breakthrough hours before the planned attacks after scouring the mobile phones of people who had been arrested during the riots. It gave them access to the messages planning riots and looting, which were bouncing around the heavily encrypted BlackBerry Messenger service.
11th August 2011
CDMA and 4G WiMax Supposedly Hacked at Defcon
A post on the Full Disclosure mailing list claims both CDMA and 4G WiMAX wireless networks were compromised using a man-in-the middle attack at Defcon earlier this week.
Coderman, who posted the information, was a witness to the attack which gained access to Android smartphones and PCs on the local CDMA and 4G cellular network. The hackers started with simple exploits, like looking for devices with superuser access and sending remote notifications that opened a backdoor to the device. They then used more complex techniques until a device was compromised.
10th August 2011
BlackBerry website hacked for helping UK Met
The Canadian firm Research In Motion is under fire from hacker group ‘TeaMpoisoN’ after they agreed to help the UK authorities to hunt down the rioters.
‘Team Poison’ hacked into a BlackBerry website and defaced it by posting a warning message that it would punish the firm for working alongside the police.
7th August 2011
Anonymous breaks into U.S. law enforcement sites
The group known as Anonymous today said that it hacked into around 70 law enforcement websites in the United States - a data breach that one local police chief said leaked sensitive information about an ongoing investigation.
The loose-knit international hacking collective posted a cache of data to the Internet early in the day, including emails stolen from officers, tips which appeared to come from members of the public, credit card numbers and other information.
Anonymous said it had stolen 10 gigabytes worth of data in retaliation for arrests of its sympathisers in the U.S. and Britain.Hackers target law enforcement websites
LulzSec Suspect Had Cache Of 750,000 Passwords
A teenager alleged to be a leading member of the LulzSec hacking group had 750,000 people’s personal details on his computer system when he was arrested, a court heard.
Jake Davis, 18, used a network of 16 machines at his home in the Shetland Islands, the prosecution said this morning.
He spoke only to confirm his name and address, and was granted conditional bail at City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court. Wearing jeans, a black T-shirt, denim shirt and sunglasses, he carried a book, “Free radicals: The secret anarchy of science”, as he left court.
Davis was arrested on Wednesday by specialist cyber crime detectives from Scotland Yard. He was bailed until a Crown Court hearing on 30 August, on the conditions that he wears an electronic tag and does not access the internet.
LulzSec Suspect 'Topiary' Arrested in Shetland Islands
Police arrest 18-year-old man in Shetland Islands who is alleged to be involved in hacker attacks on law enforcement agencies
This was the first arrest linked to LulzSec and the broader hacking collective Anonymous in which the police have immediately identified the online identity of the suspect arrested. Police also searched a house in Lincolnshire and interviewed a 17-year-old man under caution, though no arrest was made.
The arrest of Topiary is the third made in the UK in the search for members of the group, following that of Ryan Cleary, in Essex, in June, and the arrest and release in London last week of a 16-year-old known online as Tflow. The apparent ringleader of the group, known online as Sabu, remains at large.
25th July 2011
Judge Leading Phone Inquiry Linked To Murdock Family
The judge appointed by David Cameron to lead the inquiry into the phone-hacking scandal was last night urged to 'come clean' about his links to the Murdoch family.
VIDEO; David Cameron: Lord Justice Leveson to lead Phone Hacking Inquiry telegraph.co.uK
Lord Justice Leveson was facing questions over his impartiality after it emerged he attended two parties in the past year at the London home of Rupert Murdoch's daughter, Elisabeth, and her husband, PR supremo Matthew Freud.
20th July 2011
Teenager Arrested in UK as FBI Raids Anonymous Hackers
A 16-year-old South London boy has been arrested in Britain. Scotland Yard's specialist e-crime unit made the arrest under the Computer Misuse Act. As part of an FBI crackdown on the vigilante internet hacking group Anonymous another 16 related arrests were made by the FBI in the USA, 14 of whom were involved in the attack on Pay Pal known as Operation Payback, and Four hackers were arrested by the Dutch National Police Agency for various roles in cyber attacks.
The teenager was arrested at a south London address yesterday and taken to a central London police station, where he remains in custody, police said. He was held on suspicion of breaching the Computer Misuse Act 1990.
19th July 2011
Sun’s website hijacked by LulzSec hackers
LulzSec, the hacker group that previously targeted the CIA and Sony, hijacked the website of The Sun newspaper on Monday night in what it claimed was the beginning of a revenge attack on Rupert Murdoch’s media empire,
Hackers redirected visitors on the website of News International’s daily tabloid to another hijacked site, running a fake news story claiming Mr Murdoch had died.
18th July 2011
Phone Hacking: Ex-NOTW Whistleblower Found Dead
A former News of the World reporter who alleged Andy Coulson "encouraged" him to hack phones was found dead today.
Sean Hoare, who made claims in a New York Times article about the Prime Minister's former communications chief, was discovered at his home in Watford, Hertfordshire, after concerns were raised about his whereabouts.
Upon police and ambulance arrival at a property, the body of a man was found. The man was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after. The death is currently being treated as unexplained, but not thought to be suspicious. Police investigations into this incident are ongoing.
18th July 2011
Hacking: Police Chief Stephenson & Yates quit, Brooks arrested
Scandal takes dramatic new turn as Met Police chief bows to pressure, ex-News International boss is questioned and Scotland Yard Assistant Commissioner John Yates quits.
Sir Paul Stephenson, Britain's most senior police officer, resigned as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police last night, saying the row over his links to a former News of the World executive harmed his ability to do his job.
Former NI chief executive Rebekah Brooks was arrested at a London police station on suspicion of conspiring to intercept voicemails and involvement in corrupt payments to police.
Scotland Yard Assistant Commissioner John Yates quits after criticism of his handling of a review of the initial investigation, and failure to recognize the potential threat to the force's reputation.
Newspaper Hacking Inquiry Led by Prosecutor of Serial Killer
The U.K. judicial review into the phone-hacking scandal that has engulfed Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. will be led by a former prosecutor best known for the conviction of an English serial killer.
David Cameron yesterday chose Lord Justice Brian Leveson, 62, to head up the independent review. The inquiry, which will report back on press regulation within 12 months, will have the power to question under oath proprietors and managers, such as Murdoch, his son James, and Rebekah Brooks, chief executive officer of News Corp.'s British unit News International and editor at its News of the World during much of its alleged phone hacking.
Mr. Leveson is best known for prosecuting serial killer Rose West at Winchester Crown Court in 1995. She was jailed for life for 10 murders. He also unsuccessfully prosecuted the British comedian Ken Dodd for tax evasion. As a judge, Leveson oversaw cases including an appeal of the 48-year-old murder conviction of a woman who was hanged after she shot her lover.
13th July 2011
Cyber Security Provider Booz Allen Hamilton Hacked
In more cyber news, defense contracting giant Booz Allen Hamilton’s networks were apparently breached by the raucous online collective, Anonymous, who proceeded to release more than 90,000 military e-mail addresses and passwords from an unprotected server.
Anonymous feels an unprotected server at a company positioning itself as a cyber security expert is a PR faiilure and they wrote this little ditty at the famed/infamous file sharing site, The Pirate Bay, about the irony of a cyber security company being hacked so easily.
Anonymous threatens police over phone hacking and Julian Assange
Anonymous threatens attack on police and court computer systems in protest at phone hacking and proposed extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assagne.
Figures at the top of hackers' collective Anonymous are threatening to attack the Metropolitan police's computer systems and those controlled by the UK judicial system, warning that Tuesday will be "the biggest day in Anonymous's history".
7th July 2011
News of the World to close amid hacking scandal
This Sunday's edition of The News of the World will be its last, News International chairman James Murdoch has said, after days of increasingly damaging allegations against the paper.
The UK's biggest selling paper has been in circulation for 168 years.
The News of the World, which sells about 2.8million copies a week, is famed for its celebrity scoops and sex scandals, earning it the nickname, the News of the Screws.
For more in depth coverage see
- Best 'News of the World' Headlines Over the Years: Tabloid Covers
- News of the World Closing in Wake of Phone Hacking Scandal
- Rebekah Brooks at the Center of News of the World Scandal
Advertisers Drop Murdoch Over Hacking Claims
Renault are reviewing their advertizing policy whilst major advertisers including Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola GB, Orange and Vodafone have voiced concerns.
The Royal British Legion, The Co-operative Group, Sainsbury's, DFS, Boots, Specsavers, Ford, Vauxhall and Mitsubishi Motors, along with Britain's biggest high street lender Lloyds/ Halifax, and billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Holidays, have dropped advertising in the British 'gutter press' News of the World due to allegations of hacking thousands of individuals by the newspaper.
Tesco is the only one of the three big supermarkets not to axe advertising from the beleaguered News of the World
Consumers, politicians and celebrities are calling for a boycott of the News of the World and other UK titles belonging to Rupert Murdoch including The Sun and The Times after serious and shocking claims of hacking into deceased murder victims phones, servicemen who died on the front line, and many other high profile public figures.
The burning question now is whether the US tycoon Rupert Murdoch – whose journalists have shown such open contempt for ordinary decency – is a fit and proper person to own any British publicly quoted company, and whether it is not time that his media organisation itself should be forcibly broken up.
In a statement, Mr Murdoch called claims of hacking and payments to police officers "deplorable and unacceptable". He said the company "must fully and proactively co-operate with the police in all investigations and that is exactly what News International has been doing and will continue to do under Rebekah Brooks' leadership".
David Cameron is under growing pressure to act now to set up a judge-led public inquiry into allegations of phone hacking by the News of the World.The PM has said a probe must wait until police investigations are completed.
But Conservative London Mayor Boris Johnson said it should be "immediate" and "no holds barred".
Labour MP Chris Bryant also said an inquiry could be set up now and given the power to summon evidence "before somebody starts shredding it".
New International Cybercrime Agency
A new alliance has been announced by the UK Government to tackle the growing threat to national security from cybercrime.
The International Cyber Security Protection Alliance (ICSPA) will be a coalition of businesses, the Government and international police forces such as Europol. Chaired by Rt Hon David Blunkett, the former Home Secretary, the new body aims to stem the exponential growth of cybercrime, which it is estimated will cost the UK £27 billion this year.
Public Demand Full Inquiry into Newspaper Phone-Hacking
Hugh Grant and dozens of other public figures are demanding an inquiry into newspaper phone-hacking after allegations that a private investigator working for the News of the World hacked into Murderd Milly Dowler's phone.
House of Commons - UK Parliament is to debate the calls for an inquiry for up to three hours on Wednesday.News International, which owns the News of the World, has promised to investigate the claims made against it.
Hacked Off, a campaign supported by Mr Grant, Lord Prescott, Conservative former Health Secretary Lord Fowler, Labour MP Chris Bryant, Liberal Democrat MP Adrian Sanders and the Dowlers' lawyer, Mark Lewis, has started an online petition calling for a full public inquiry.
Fox News hacker tweets Obama dead
Hackers have taken over a Twitter account belonging to US broadcaster Fox News and declared President Obama dead.
The @foxnewspolitics feed stated: "BREAKING NEWS: @BarackObama assassinated, 2 gunshot wounds have proved too much."More than two hours after the malicious postings appeared, they had still not been removed.
A group or individual, calling themselves The Script Kiddies appeared to claim responsibility.
Al Qaeda web forum hacked
A popular jihadist Internet forum has been knocked off the Internet, and counterterrorism experts say it appears it was hacked.
Cybersecurity analysts say the al-Shamukh forum appears to have been taken down by a fairly sophisticated cyberattack that hit not only the website, but the server — which is the main computer that enables people to access the site over the Internet.
"The al-Shamukh website had become the most trusted and exclusive haunt for e-jihadists," said Jarret Brachman, a terrorism expert who has spent a decade monitoring al Qaeda's media operations and advises the U.S. government. "If it doesn't come back up soon, the forum's registered members will start migrating to the half a dozen other main forums, all of whom are probably chomping at the bit to replace Shamukh as the pre-eminent al Qaeda forum."
LulzSec Hacking Suspect's House Searched in Hamilton, Ohio
FBI agents in the US have searched the house of a teenager in Hamilton, Ohio, whom they suspect of being a member of the hacking group LulzSec.
A report in the local newspaper quoted an FBI agent, who said that federal agents had searched a house on Monday 27 June at which the suspect had lived.
The website Threatpost reports that the Ohio teenager was known within LulzSec as "m_nerva", who leaked text logs of discussions between the group after they had hacked into the website of an FBI affiliate at the beginning of June.
Mosman Municipal Council Hacked by Anonymous?
Sydney's Mosman Municipal Council website has suffered a security breach that made the details of nine council staff available for download. However, according to a statement on the Council's website no ratepayer information from the internal systems had been accessed.
The hack was made via an SQL injection exploit on a subsidiary Mosman Sporting Wall of Fame website developed by the Council.
Magazine's Database of US Military Personnel is Hacked
Email addresses and details of Defense News subscribers stolen from Gannett Co. Inc
A magazine subscriptions database which held personal information of members of the US armed forces has been hacked into, according to an American media company.The Gannett Government Media Corporation holds information about subscribers to Defense News, one of the world's most widely read publications on the military, and other publications aimed at serving US army, navy, air force and marines personnel.
LulzSec says Goodbye with New Data Dump
Hacking organisation Lulz Security® (LulzSec) announces it is to disband on Twitter after attacks on entertainment company and law enforcement agency sites
A group of hackers claiming to have attacked websites around the world, including the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency and the US Senate, has disbanded, according to a message posted on its website.
LulzSec, which consists of only six hackers, said it was disbanding after 50 days "disrupting and exposing corporations, governments, often the general population itself, and quite possibly everything in between, just because we could". "Lulz" is internet slang for laughs.
ONS Says Census Data is Safe
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has confirmed that UK census data collected in March is safe and has not been hacked, reports The Register.
This follows fears that a member of the hacker group LulzSec had obtained the data due to the posting of a note on the PasteBin website. LulzSec had denied the break-in.
This follows fears that a member of the hacker group LulzSec had obtained the data due to the posting of a note on the PasteBin website. LulzSec had denied the break-in.A statement from the ONS said: "I can reassure the public that their census records are secure. We have strict measures in place protecting the nation's census information.
NATO site hacked
NATO is warning subscribers to its NATO - e-Bookshop service that hackers have likely stolen its customer database.
The site is run as a separate service for distributing NATO information and does not contain any classified or secret information.
The bookshop has been closed and all members been warned by email to change their passwords if they are using them for other websites or services.
Our examinations show a possible compromise of user information (username, password, address and email address) for people who have ordered publications from the e-Bookshop or subscribed to our email service."If you use the same email and password on other web platforms it is highly recommended that you change your passwords."
NATO members were warned last month of increasing threats from hackivist group Anonymous. Looks like their advice was right.
The organisation is beginning to take cyber-threats more seriously – late last year it designated cyber-defence as a critical capability.
There is no clue so far as to who is behind the attack. The organisation has been hit before, and has no shortage of enemies.
LulzSec Gets Hacked by Oneiroi
The hacker claims that the LulzSec homepage went down this morning after a number of rival hacking groups threatened to turn on the group. The site was up and running at the time this article was published. More worrying for LulzSec will be the New Scientist reporting that another hacker by the name of 'TeaMp0ison' has vowed to reveal the true identities of LulzSec members:
LulzSec has now denied claims that it was responsible for a DDoS attack on News International's servers yesterday.
A hacker going by the name of Oneiroi is claiming responsibility for bringing down the LulzSec homepage in an attack codenamed 'Operation Supernova'.
"I'd like to let the public know that phase one of OPERATION SUPERNOVA has been successful," he said on Twitter.
"Lulzsecurity.com is Tango down at this time."
One particular anti-hacking group calling itself 'Team Web Ninjas' has already posted what they say are the names, addresses, phone numbers and pictures of LulzSec. They also claim to have full details of the LulzSec leader but are currently holding back from exposing him.
[ Source: on3iroi on Wordpress ]
LulzSec Hacks Arizona State Police
Lulz Security® (LulzSec) declared on its website that it is opposed to the tough anti-immigration law in Arizona, and said it was releasing documents that related to border control and other law enforcement activities. Its headline was "Chinga La Migra," Spanish for a more profane way of saying "Screw Immigration."
This is the first paragraph of what they said;
##################### CHINGA LA MIGRA BULLETIN #1 6/23/2011 #################### We are releasing hundreds of private intelligence bulletins, training manuals, personal email correspondence, names, phone numbers, addresses and passwords belonging to Arizona law enforcement. We are targeting AZDPS specifically because we are against SB1070 and the racial profiling anti-immigrant police state that is Arizona. The documents classified as "law enforcement sensitive", "not for public distribution", and "for official use only" are primarily related to border patrol and counter-terrorism operations and describe the use of informants to infiltrate various gangs, cartels, motorcycle clubs, Nazi groups, and protest movements.
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"We are aware of computer issues," said Steve Harrison, a spokesman for the Arizona Department of Public Safety, "We're looking into it. And of course we're taking additional security safeguards."
The Mexico border state passed a law last year ordering police to check the immigration status of anyone suspected to be in the United States illegally, in a bid to curb illegal immigration and border-related crime.
A majority of Americans supported the measure, but outraged opponents charged it was unconstitutional and would lead to the harassment of Hispanic-Americans, and called for an economic boycott of the desert state.
The most controversial parts of the law were blocked by a federal judge shortly before it came into effect last July, although Arizona is pursuing an appeal.
Hackers A TO Z
Anonymous Born out of the online messageboard 4Chan in 2003, the shadowy group's first high-profile target was the Church of Scientology. Publicity from the months-long attack, dubbed Project Chanology, is believed to have attracted hundreds of members – mostly young males – to the cause. After a string of more low-key attacks on copyright-enforcement agencies and music bodies, the group rallied behind WikiLeaks amid the fallout from the US diplomatic cables leaks in December last year.
Lulz Security® (LulzSec) Spinoff from Anonymous which says its members are hacking sites for the "lulz" (fun).
Members Fewer than 10. Reckoned to be young – 16- to 24-year-olds – given their initial targets: the US X-Factor and computer games companies. Members said to include "Kayla", who owns a 10,000-strong "botnet" of virus-infected PCs that can be used to attack sites on command
Agenda Cause the odd bit of havoc and embarrassment for high-profile sites or organisations
The JesterHighly skilled, lone wolf former US military hacker.
Members One
Agenda Pro-US, pro-military who especially enjoys taking down jihadist websites, but will take on anyone who he judges to be anti-American or uppity
"Griefers" who caused trouble in the online world Second Life
Members 100-200
Agenda Cause trouble – "grief" – in the avatar-driven world
4Chan Influential messageboard launched in October 2003. 4Chan's infamous /b/ messageboard has been described as a place where "people try to shock, entertain, and coax free porn from each other". The forum has become a breeding ground for people who want to create mischief online and has spawned many of the vituperative groups who launch online attacks.
4Chan gave birth to many of the internet's most famous memes, including Rickrolling and Rage Guy. Its users frequently become embroiled in spats with other online communities, most recently a 4Chan subgroup attacked Tumblr for "stealing [its] memes".
Members Claims to have 25 million monthly users, making it one of the most engaged websites
FBI Raids Northern Virginia Web-Hosting Company Servers
More than one hundred websites went down for over a day after the FBI removed servers from a web-hosting company in Northern Virginia in a first of its kind raid. The FBI won’t comment on the matter but reportely the raid was related to an investigation of one of the hacking group LulzSec.
23rd June 2011FBI Targets Fake Cyber Security Scammers
A gang that made more than $72m (£45m) peddling fake security software has been shut down in a series of raids.
Co-ordinated by the FBI, the raids were carried out in the US, UK and six other countries.
The money was made by selling software that claimed to find security risks on PCs and then asked for cash to fix the non-existent problems.
The raids seized 40 computers used to do fake scans and host webpages that tricked people into using the software.
The raids on the gang were part of an international effort dubbed Operation Trident Tribunal. In total, raids in 12 nations were carried out to thwart two separate gangs peddling scareware.
Alleged Hacker Ryan Cleary Held For Further Questioning
Ryan Cleary, 19, was unshaven and wearing a white T-shirt and matching tracksuit bottoms as he stood in the dock for a 10-minute hearing at Westminster magistrates court in central London on Thursday morning.
Cleary, who spoke only to confirm his name and date of birth, was remanded in custody at London's Charing Cross police station for a maximum of three days for further questioning about the alleged attacks.Ben Cooper, the lawyer representing Cleary, said he was "fully co-operating" with the ongoing police investigation and that he "wishes to co-operate further".
Cooper described Cleary as a "vulnerable young man", adding that there were "certain matters being looked into with regards to his vulnerability".
LulzSec Hackers attack News International servers
Attack on publisher News International apparently in retaliation for The Sun newspaper coverage of Lulz Security (LulzSec as it's popularly known) hacking coverage.
Hackers attacked servers used by News International to publish some of its digital content at 2am on Thursday morning, apparently in retaliation for coverage in the Sun of the activities of the LulzSec hacking collective.
A senior source within News International confirmed to the Guardian that third-party architecture was affected for a couple of hours by a distributed Denial-of-service attack, in which hundreds or thousands of machines make repetitive demands on an internet server.
The computers used for the attack were mainly based in Russia, but that does not mean that the people behind it were based there.
Ryan Cleary Charged With Computer Hacking
A British teenager has been charged with five offences of computer hacking. The Metropolitan Police said: "A 19-year-old man has this afternoon been charged with offences under the Criminal Law Act and Computer Misuse Act by officers from the Metropolitan police service's police central e-crime unit (PCeU)."
Lulz Security (LulzSec as it's popularly known) has denied he is one of their number, saying he hosts one of their chat rooms but nothing else.
Ryan Cleary was charged over cyber attacks on targets including the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and the British Phonographic Industry as well as on Britain's Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) . The investigation into whether he is involved in any other attacks is continuing. Cleary will appear at City of Westminster magistrates court on Thursday morning.
LulzSec Hits Brazilian Government
The websites of the Brazilian government and President have fallen victim to hacker group Lulz Security (LulzSec as it's popularly known)
In a Twitter posting, LulzSec said "Our Brazilian unit is making progress. Well done @LulzSecBrazil, brothers!" shortly after the two sites went down. You can read it HERE
Both are thought to have been taken offline by distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS).DDoS attacks are regarded more as malicious activity than hacking, because the sites' computer systems are not broken into.
Instead, they are deliberately overloading with traffic, such as communication requests or so-called 'e-mail bombs'.
'Hacker' Ryan Cleary could be extradited to US to face court
Ryan Cleary, the Essex teenager arrested on suspicion of launching cyber attacks on the cia.gov and the U.S. Senate, could be extradited to face justice in the US, where computer hacking can carry jail terms of up to 10 years.
He is alleged to have been in the process of attacking the website of Britain's SOCA: Serious Organised Crime Agency using a computer in his bedroom at the moment police raided the detached house.
Police sources said that because he was allegedly committing an offence against a UK-based website at the time he was arrested, he would have to be tried in a British court if he is charged with any offence.
However, once he had been dealt with by the British legal system he could face extradition to the US to face possible charges there.
LulzSec Takes Revenge On Snitches
An internet hacking group appears to have taken revenge on two people it claimed had 'snitched' on them and landed a teenage hacker in custody.
In an unverified statement on the PasteBin website, LulzSec today wrote: 'Hi FBI & other law enforcement clowns, LulzSec here with some juicy gossip. LulzSec named two people on website Pastebin, including m_nerva, who was outed as Marshall Webb, a resident of Hamilton, Ohio.
LulzSec Rogue Suspected of Bitcoin Hack
More than $9m of online currency was stolen in weekend attack on Bitcoin currency exchange that could cost members of Anonymous and Lulz Security (LulzSec as it's popularly known) thousands of dollars each
LulzSec has denied any involvement in the Bitcoin hack. The group has also denied any link to attacks on the websites of games company Sega and the UK Office for National Statistics.
Late on Sunday evening, MtGox was compromised when a hacker tried to sell more than 400,000 Bitcoins – 6% of all the virtual currency presently in circulation – for an initial price of $17.50 each, which would have netted $7m at a constant price.
But the attempt to sell such a large volume of coins at once drove the value of the currency down almost to zero, before trading on the site was suspended.
LulzSec Teen Mastermind Arrested in Global Hacking Probe
A 19-year-old suspected of being a mastermind behind notorious international computer hacking group Lulz Security (LulzSec as it's popularly known) has been arrested in Essex UK, after a joint police operation by the
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at 14:56 on May 30th, 2011
Good report
at 07:06 on August 10th, 2011
"Anonymous" -- looks like a U.S. security-mil-intel psyop "honeypot" site intended to ferret out those who would support cyber-vandalism... part of an ongoing effort to criminalize speech, to punish Americans for their political speech and not for anything wrong that they have done. In other words, another "false flag op." USG agencies/commands use Lockheed Martin Information Systems to impose draconian censorship on extrajudicially targeted Americans, via overt tampering with their telecommunications and by psyops (psychological operations), says this veteran mainstream journalist:
http://nowpublic.com/world/u-s-govt-censors-internet-political-speech-fraud-deception
at 06:36 on June 21st, 2011
It was only a matter of time before they were apprehended, well done the Brits and FBI
at 07:54 on June 21st, 2011
This is being widely reported as "LulzSec leader arrested", but the Met never says that the hacker is even involved with Lulz Security.
LulzSec denies that one of their own was arrested, though they'd be expected to say that anyway.
at 18:36 on June 22nd, 2011
lmao. Ryan not LulzSec nor the Jokester.
one interesting thing LulzSec found was hundreds of WhiteHouse emails signed up to view Porn. cute, huh?
at 07:43 on August 16th, 2011
See what they did, is simply great: bisi.pl/lavenderx3
at 09:06 on August 17th, 2011
The big problem with this spam is that it’s all designed to distribute malware and spyware onto the users computers and not all the domains are being flagged up as “this site may harm your computer”.