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SOCA website scalp claimed by LulzSec in apparent DDoS attack

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Jun

2011

SOCA, the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency, appears to have become the latest casualty of the LulzSec hacking group as its website was sporadically inaccessible today.In an echo of the announcement LulzSec made about its attack on the CIA’s website, a message on Twitter announced the news of the denial-of-service attack in simple terms: Tango […]

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Japan makes virus creation illegal

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Jun

2011

People who write or deliberately spread malware can expect to be fined or receive up to three years in prison, under laws enacted by the Japanese parliament today. Up until now, you could only expect to feel your collar felt by the computer crime authorities in Japan if the malware you had created had caused […]

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EVE Online and other gaming websites hit by LulzSec DDoS attack

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Jun

2011

EVE Online, the popular sci-fi multiplayer online game, is amongst the latest websites to have been attacked by the LulzSec hacking group. In an operation dubbed “Titanic Takeover Tuesday”, LulzSec instigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that swamped EVE Online’s web servers and forced makers CCP Games to take the site completely offline for some […]

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