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

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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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Ryan Cleary has Asperger’s syndrome, court hears

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Jun

2011

Ryan Cleary, the teenager whose arrest last Monday made international headlines linking him to the notorious LulzSec hacking gang, has been diagnosed as suffering from Asperger’s syndrome a court has been told. According to a BBC news report, defence lawyer Ben Cooper told the City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court that his client’s condition was recently […]

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The end of LulzSec? Hacking group says it is disbanding, after 50 days of attacks

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Jun

2011

The LulzSec hacking group has claimed it is disbanding, in a statement marking its 50th day of activity. The hacking gang became notorious following a series of hacks and denial-of-service attacks in recent weeks against the likes of Sony, PBS, Infragard, SOCA, gaming websites, the CIA, the US Senate, and others. LulzSec managed to amass […]

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