Posts Tagged ‘extradition’

Operation Ransom: Police Virus authors arrested

Feb

2013

Today, we have some important news to share with you. Our friends in the Technological Investigation Brigade of Spain’s National Police, together with Europol and Interpol, have dismantled the cyber-crime ring responsible for the “Police Virus”. According to the news release published by Spain’s Ministry of Home Affairs, the police have arrested ten members of […]

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Anonymous attacks UK Prime Minister and Home Office websites with DDoS assault

Apr

2012

Anonymous hacktivists have launched a distributed denial-of-service attack against the websites of 10 Downing Street and the British government’s Home Office website, preventing legitimate users from visiting the sites by flooding them with unwanted internet traffic.The hacktivists, operating under the Anonymous banner, say that they have launched the action in support of Pentagon hacker Gary […]

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Man charged with NASA hack, on 10th anniversary of Gary McKinnon’s arrest

Feb

2012

In December 2010, computers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Los Angeles were allegedly hacked. With researchers unable to use the computers for two months, NASA estimated the damage caused to be in the region of $580,000. Not to be sniffed at. It was with some surprise then, to hear last month that 26-year-old Robert […]

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