Tuesday, June 21, 2011

England today - 19 year old from Wickford Essex arrested, believed to be behind LulzSec hackingp


Ryan Cleary, 19, is believed to have been a 'major player' with LulzSec, a hacking group linked with  attempts to breach organisations including the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency, the U.S. Senate and the CIA.

Cleary was arrested in a 'pre-planned intelligence-led operation' in Wickford, Essex, the Metropolitan Police said.
14 Jun 2011 ... US Senate officials order investigation following an embarrassing breach of Senate.gov website.
www.guardian.co.uk/.../us-politics-hacking-senate-lulzsec -

15 Jun 2011 ... The homepage of the Central Intelligence Agency, http://cia.gov/, appeared to have been suffered an attack from a hacker group on Wednesday ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../cia-website-lulzsec-hackers_n_877812.html
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Out of the swamp that is 4 chan, two groups of hackers emerged. The first, anonymous, practised hacktivism, using DDoS attacks against numerous targets such as Iran, the Church of Scientology and Amazon.com.

Lulzsec, on the other hand, are pranksters happy just to take down random sites for lulz. Lulzsec has been on the rampage, taking down the CIA website to win a twitter flame war while picking another fight with 4chan despite past associations.

4chan users are out to take down Lulzsec any way they can. Will the hackers of Lulzsec be applying their computer skills elsewhere soon?

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