A 17-year-old from London has been charged with several offences, computer misuse and fraud among them, as a result of an investigation conducted by the National Crime Agency in the United Kingdom.According to a statement from the law enforcement agency, the teen was arrested last year in April, after multiple distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that […]
Broadcaster Sky News has admitted that it authorised a journalist to hack email accounts on two separate occasions.According to media reports, the TV stations’s northern England correspondent, Gerard Tubb, accessed an email account belonging to John Darwin – the so-called “Canoe Man” who faked his own death as part of a complex fraud involving his […]
I get a lot of press enquiries currently about hacktivism, usually in the context of certain groups who have had more than enough publicity already. While discussing some related issues with my colleagues at ESET UK, it occurred to me that what we're lacking here is a clear differentiation between types of "hacktivist" or, indeed, "activist": much […]
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