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Jake Davis named as suspected hacker Topiary by UK police

01

Aug

2011

British police have tonight named the teenager they arrested in Shetland last week, in relation to the LulzSec and Anonymous hacking groups. Jake Davis, 18, will appear in court on Monday charged with five offences including unauthorised computer access and conspiracy to carry out a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack against the SOCA website. (SOCA is […]

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LulzSec hacking suspect ‘Topiary’ arrested in the Shetland Islands

27

Jul

2011

A 19-year old man has been arrested by British police in the Shetland Islands, under suspicion of launching hacking attacks against a number of websites. Officers from the Metropolitan Police Service’s Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) arrested the man as part of an international investigation into the activities of the Anonymous and LulzSec hacktivist groups. […]

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CNAIPIC hacked – Italian cybercrime unit files published by Anonymous

25

Jul

2011

Anonymous, the loosely-knit hacktivist collective, is claiming to have got its hands on 8GB of “secret documents” from CNAIPIC, Italy’s cybercrime unit responsible for protecting the country’s critical IT infrastructure. If it’s true that security at CNAIPIC has been breached by hackers, that would be a genuine concern as the group works with intelligence agencies […]

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