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Italian police raid hackers who took on Vatican

Agence France-PresseMay 17, 2013 13:16
Italian police on Friday arrested four alleged hackers believed to belong to the activist group Anonymous for attacking websites, including those of the Vatican and the parliament in Rome. The four have been placed under house arrest and communications police carried out a dozen raids. They are suspected of launching computer attacks on "strategic and institutional infrastructure" -- often for their own illicit personal ends. There was a huge reaction on social media against the police operation dubbed "Tango Down".

Four Lulzsec hackers sentenced to jail in Britain

Agence France-PresseMay 16, 2013 15:16
Four members of the LulzSec international hacking group were sentenced to prison terms in Britain on Thursday for masterminding cyber attacks on major global institutions, including Sony Pictures and the CIA. Ryan Cleary, 21, Jake Davis, 20, Mustafa Al-Bassam, 18, and Ryan Ackroyd, 26, saw themselves as "latter-day pirates" when they carried out the attacks on organisations which also included Rupert Murdoch's top-selling British newspaper The Sun.

4 hackers, part of Lulzsec group, handed jail sentences in UK for attacking Sony, News Intl

The Canadian PressMay 16, 2013 12:46
LONDON - Four young computer hackers who masterminded cyberattacks on targets from the CIA to Sony Pictures and Rupert Murdoch's News International were sentenced to up to 32 months in prison on Thursday.

LulzSec hackers "at cutting edge" of cyber crime, court told

May 15, 2013 15:40
By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - Four British hackers who took part in 2011 cyber-attacks on targets ranging from the CIA to Sony were audacious, arrogant men whose motivation was "anarchic self-amusement", a court heard on Wednesday. The men, who have pleaded guilty to a variety of offences, were members of the hacking collective LulzSec that caused millions of dollars of damage to corporate and government computer networks during an online crime spree they boasted about on Twitter.

Canada looking at criminalizing cyber-bullying

Agence France-PresseMay 13, 2013 16:43
Canada is looking to criminalize cyber-bullying, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Friday, after a pair of teenage suicides provoked by unrelenting online harassment. "The Internet is in most ways a great development for our society," Harper said at a roundtable on ways to protect youth from cyber-bullying. "Unfortunately, it has other purposes and other uses, and young people are extremely vulnerable."

Dutchman appears for 'biggest ever' cyberattack

Agence France-PresseMay 8, 2013 15:45
A Dutchman arrested in Spain last month in connection with an unprecedented cyberattack that reportedly slowed down the Internet, has been extradited to the Netherlands where he appeared before a judge on Wednesday, Dutch prosecutors said. Sven Olaf Kamphuis, 35, was transferred to the Netherlands on Monday night following his arrest last month in Barcelona by the Spanish police. "He appeared today before a Rotterdam judge," the Public Prosecutor's office said in a statement with Dutch national news agency ANP reporting he was remanded behind bars for another two weeks.

China's cyber spying targets US government

Agence France-PresseMay 6, 2013 16:16
China is engaged in widespread cyber espionage in a bid to extract information about the US government's foreign policy and military plans, said a Pentagon report issued Monday. China kept up a steady campaign of hacking in 2012 that included attempts to target US government computer networks, which could provide Beijing better insight into America's policy deliberations and military capabilities, according to the Pentagon's annual assessment of China's military.

Pentagon report for 1st time says China government, military responsible for US cyberattacks

The Canadian PressMay 6, 2013 14:30
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon for the first time used its annual report on China to directly assert that Beijing's government and military have conducted computer-based attacks against the U.S., including efforts to steal information from federal agencies.

Taiwan fights expanding Chinese cyber-attacks

Kyodo News InternationalApril 30, 2013 14:40
Computer network intrusions at the National Security Bureau and other Taiwan agencies, many originating in China, have spread into the private sector and people's daily life, Taiwan's National Security Bureau said Monday. Deputy Director General Chang Kuang-yuan told a legislative committee that Chinese hackers have expanded their attacks on government websites to those of think tanks, government contractors, telecommunications service providers and traffic control systems.

LulzSec hacker leader arrested in Australia

Agence France-PresseApril 24, 2013 02:15
A self-proclaimed leader of the LulzSec international hacking group has been arrested in Australia, police said on Wednesday, after charging him with attacking and defacing a government website. The 24-year-old IT professional, who went by the online identity "ozshock", was seized at his office in a town 76 kilometres (47 miles) north of Sydney on Tuesday. "The man is a self-proclaimed leader of the group Lulz Security (LulzSec), a computer hacking group that has existed since 2011," the Australian Federal Police said, adding that he was known to international police forces.
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