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Article | 17/05/2013 Police arrest Anonymous suspects in Italy
Italian police arrested four suspected hackers Friday, accusing them of having taken control of the Italian branch of the Anonymous network.
Article | 16/05/2013 Four former LulzSec members sentenced to prison in the UK
Four British men associated with the LulzSec hacker collective received prison sentences Thursday for their roles in cyberattacks launched by the grou...
Article | 10/05/2013 Payment card processors hacked in $45 million fraud
A vast debit card fraud scheme that allegedly netted $US45 million has been linked to the hacking of credit card processors in the US and India.
Article | 8/05/2013 Spamhaus DDoS suspect extradited to the Netherlands
A 35-year-old Dutchman suspected of participating in a large DDoS attack on antispam organization Spamhaus was extradited from Spain to the Netherland...
Article | 3/05/2013 Accused SpyEye creator extradited to the US
An Algerian man accused of helping to develop and distribute the SpyEye computer virus has been extradited from Thailand to the U.S. to face criminal ...
Article | 2/05/2013 Dutch bill seeks to give law enforcement hacking powers
The Dutch government today presented a draft bill that aims to give law enforcement the power to hack into computer systems -- including those located...
Article | 29/04/2013 Spanish police say DDoS suspect used a van as a mobile office
The man suspected of participating in a large DDoS attack on an antispam organization that caused intermittent Internet hiccups drove around Spain in ...
Article | 26/04/2013 Dutchman arrested in connection with large DDoS attack on Spamhaus
A 35-year-old Dutchman was arrested Thursday in Spain, as part of an investigation into a large-scale DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack that...
Article | 24/04/2013 Australia charges man claiming to be LulzSec leader
Australia has charged a 24-year-old man who allegedly defaced a government website earlier this month and claims to be the leader of LulzSec, a rogue ...
Article | 19/04/2013 Former LulzSec member gets prison sentence for Sony Pictures hack
Cody Andrew Kretsinger, a 25-year-old man from Decatur, Illinois, was sentenced Thursday to one year in federal prison for his role in a May 2011 brea...
Article | 15/04/2013 Facebook affirms its privacy commitment with national campaign
Facebook is teaming up with the nation's attorneys general to launch a public awareness campaign aimed at keeping young people safer on the site.
Article | 5/04/2013 Australia charges alleged Anonymous member
Australian police have charged an unidentified juvenile, who is suspected to be a member of the hacker group Anonymous, on a number of counts related ...
Article | 28/03/2013 Authorities bust global credit card fraud network targeting POS terminals and ATMs in Europe
A global credit card fraud network was shut down on Thursday as the result of an international police operation called "Pandora-Storm" that saw the pa...
Article | 26/03/2013 Activists decry computer crime proposal
A proposal in the U.S. Congress to strengthen the penalties in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is a "giant leap in the wrong direction" for digital r...
Article | 15/03/2013 Two charged with gift-card hacking scheme
Two California men face charges in Massachusetts of hacking into point-of-sale computers at Subway restaurants and adding more than US$40,000 in value...