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LulzSec hacker leader arrested in Australia

Agence France-PresseApril 23, 2013 22:16
A self-proclaimed leader of the LulzSec international hacker group has been arrested in Australia, police said on Wednesday, after charging him with attacking and defacing a government website. The 24-year-old, who went by the online identity "ozshock", was seized at 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.

Australian police arrest senior member of LulzSec hacking group

April 23, 2013 21:30
By Jane Wardell SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Federal Police have arrested the self-proclaimed leader of the international hacking group LulzSec, the collective that claimed responsibility for infiltrating and shutting down the CIA website. Police said the 24-year-old IT worker, who held a position of trust at an international company, was arrested in Sydney on Tuesday evening and charged with hacking offences that carry a maximum penalty of 10 years.

Former Reuters editor pleads not guilty in Anonymous hacking case

April 23, 2013 20:30
SACRAMENTO (Reuters) - Former Reuters.com Deputy Social Media Editor Matthew Keys pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to federal charges that he aided members of the Anonymous hacking collective. Keys, 26, on Monday said he was fired by Thomson Reuters <TRI.TO>, the parent company of Reuters News.

U.S., China agree to work together on cyber security

April 13, 2013 07:45
BEIJING (Reuters) - China and the United States will set up a working group on cyber-security, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday, as the two sides moved to ease months of tensions and mutual accusations of hacking and Internet theft. Speaking to reporters in Beijing during a visit to China, Kerry said the United States and China had agreed on the need to speed up action on cyber security, an area that Washington says is its top national security concern.

Focus on cyber-bullying after 2nd Canadian teen kills self

April 11, 2013 15:01
Another Canadian teen's suicide after months of harassment and circulation of an image of her alleged rape by four boys has reignited concerns over cyberbullying, and led hacker group Anonymous Thursday to call for a new investigation. Rehtaeh Parsons, 17, died in hospital on Sunday in the port city of Halifax in easternmost Canada after a suicide attempt that her mother blames on the alleged November 2011 sexual assault and a subsequent barrage of taunts by schoolmates calling her a "slut."

Cyber warfare

April 11, 2013 05:04
North Korea was pinpointed Wednesday as the perpetrator of a massive cyber attack that paralyzed more than 30,000 computers and servers at the nation’s banks and broadcasters last month. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning said the series of cyber attacks on March 20, 25 and 26 resembled methods North Korea had attempted in previous cases. According to news reports, six computers in North Korea were used to access South Korean servers using more than 1,000 IP addresses overseas and 13 of those IP addresses were traced back to North Korea.

Hacker "Kayla" admits attacks on Sony, Murdoch, Nintendo

April 9, 2013 11:46
By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - A British computer hacker pleaded guilty on Tuesday to cyber attacks on targets including Sony, Nintendo, Rupert Murdoch's News International and the Arizona State Police. Ryan Ackroyd's plea meant his planned jury trial did not go ahead and, as a result, the court did not hear any evidence on the motivation behind the attacks he made using the persona of a 16-year-old girl named Kayla as part of hacking group LulzSec.

'Bazooka' attacks slowing Internet: security experts

March 27, 2013 21:46
A "bazooka" cyber attack described as the most powerful ever seen has slowed traffic on the Internet, security experts said Wednesday, raising fresh concerns over online security. The attacks targeted Spamhaus, a Geneva-based volunteer group that publishes spam blacklists used by networks to filter out unwanted email, and led to cyberspace congestion that may have affected the Internet overall, according to Matthew Prince of the US security firm CloudFlare.

S. Korea tracks cyber attack to China, North still suspect

March 21, 2013 00:30
South Korea said Thursday it had sourced a damaging cyber attack on its broadcasters and banks to an IP address in China, fuelling suspicions that North Korea may have been responsible. Previous cyber attacks blamed on North Korea -- including one last year on the computer network of the conservative JoongAng newspaper in Seoul -- have also been tracked back to Chinese sources. Internet security analysts in South Korea believe official North Korean hackers learned many of their skills in China and operate from there.

Taiwan sets up Internet shield to tackle China 'hacking'

March 20, 2013 09:01
Taiwan has set up a unit to create a comprehensive Internet shield against hackers, its intelligence chief said Wednesday, in response to what it claims is a growing cyber threat from China. Tsai Teh-sheng, head of the island's National Security Bureau, described the perceived cyber threat from China as "very severe" when asked to evaluate it in parliament by Kuomintang legislator Lin Yu-fang. "The types of their Internet hacking are changing as their targets gradually diversify, ranging from military secrets, high-tech and business secrets to infrastructure," Tsai said.
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