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.
Former British newspaper editor Piers Morgan, now a presenter for US television network CNN, has denied fresh allegations that he printed stories obtained through phone hacking.
Morgan - a former editor of Rupert Murdoch's now shuttered News of the World paper and of the rival Daily Mirror tabloid - made his latest denial after British media printed comments that he made in a BBC radio programme in 2009.
Police in the U.K. have arrested the man they believe has been serving as the unofficial spokesperson of the hacktivist group LulzSec.
The 19-year-old suspect, who uses the online alias "Topiary," was arrested Wednesday at a home in the Shetland Islands, located off the northeast coast of Scotland, and was booked at a London police station, according to a statement. In a recent interview inside an internet chat room, Topiary was asked by Salon.com reporter Peter Finocchiaro whether he feared arrest.
Evidence servers of the Italian National Anti-Cybercrime Center for the Protection of Critical Infrastructure (CNAIPIC) have been breached and some its contents published by a group of hackers calling themselves "Legion of Anonymous Doom", who apparently got on board the AntiSec campaign.
The group has made clear that its sitting on around eight GB of stolen data and that it plans to release it all.
A critic of academic publishers has uploaded 19,000 scientific papers to the internet to protest the prosecution of a prominent programmer and activist accused of hacking into a college computer system and downloading almost 5 million scholarly documents from an archive service.
Just a few weeks after German authorities opened a national Cyber Defense Center in Bonn it was attacked by hackers and now officials are struggling to arrest all of those involved.
Anonymous, the hacking group that saw some of its alleged members arrested Tuesday, had another blow to deal with Wednesday, albeit a lesser one: Its own social network page was hacked and defaced.
The group had announced earlier this week that it was just starting AnonPlus after its "Your Anon News" account was rejected by Google's new social network, Google+, for violating the site's standards.
A Harvard University fellow who was studying ethics was charged with hacking into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's computer network to steal nearly 5 million academic articles.
Aaron Swartz, 24, of Cambridge, was accused of stealing the documents from JSTOR, a popular research subscription service that offers digitized copies of more than 1000 academic journals and documents, some dating back to the 17th century.
As the phone hacking saga continues to grip the country, mobile operators are saying that spying on someone's voicemail messages wouldn't be possible today as several weaknesses in the systems have been eliminated.
Reporters and private investigators working for the News of the World and Sun, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., are accused of repeatedly illegally accessed the voicemail messages of more than 4,000 people -- from royal family members to an abducted and later murdered 13-year-old girl in 2002 -- for information for news stories.
Well, seems like LulzSec has returned, and moved beyond the DDOS attack! Not content to merely shut down one of Rupert Murdoch's paper's websites, the hacking group has instead planted a bizarro-Onionesque account of the mogul's death-by-palladium on a Times redesign page masquerading as The Sun. Well played, #AntiSec.
