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Topiary: Have the police arrested the right man?

29
Jul
2011

Since the British police arrested a teenager yesterday in connection with the hacktivist activities of LulzSec and Anonymous, I’ve been asked, time and time again, the same question: Have the cops got the right man? Have they arrested the “real” Topiary? It seems that the reason why they’re asking is that folks are supicious that […]

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Lady Gaga website stays strangely silent over database hack

18
Jul
2011

A gang of hackers known as SwagSec announced at the tail end of last week that they had hacked into Lady Gaga’s UK website and made off with a database of names and email addresses of fans. To prove their point, they published the stolen data online. The press reported that a source close to […]

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MasterCard.com website down in apparent Wikileaks-motivated internet attack

28
Jun
2011

MasterCard’s website is currently inaccessible following what appears to be a WikiLeaks-inspired internet attack against it. In what appears to be the latest salvo by hactivists, the mastercard.com website is thought to be suffering from a denial-of-service attack – where an internet site is bombarded with a large amount of traffic making it impossible for […]

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