Image class=”text”> Twitter account Nicolas Maduro, visibly upset by the group hacker LulzSec Peru, as the group claimed.
Australian police have arrested the self-proclaimed leader of the international group of hackers Lulz Security (LulzSec) in a raid about 50 kilometers north of Sydney, local media reported Wednesday.
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man 24 years and arrested Tuesday in the suburb of Point Clare on the Central Coast, said the officers who led a group from the original refurbished LulzSec, which ended its activities in June 2011.
Laughing at your security class=”quote_new”> since 2011
Police said the arrest, which did not provide the name, is accused of crimes related to hacking and is the first member of this organization course held in Australia, according to ABC local chain.
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course must answer two charges of unauthorized modification of data to cause malfunctions and access or unauthorized modification of restricted data. If found guilty, the accused may be sentenced to up to twelve years in prison , according to ABC local chain.
In early 2011, LulzSec launched a campaign of 50 days in which systems attacked the CIA, the FBI, police in Arizona (USA) and the governments of several countries.
LulzSec has also obtained and disseminated confidential materials Fox television network, the telephone company AT & T and electronics manufacturers Sony and Nintendo, among others.
UK authorities and the United States has arrested and prosecuted several members of LulzSec, whose motto was “Laughing at your security since 2011″ and boasted of having enjoyed the “chaos” and “anarchy” that generated computer incursions.
In March last year, the alleged leader of LulzSec, Hector Xavier Monsegur, known as “Sabu”, pleaded guilty to assaulting companies like PayPal and Mastercard and collaborated with the authorities to they could bring charges against the other defendants.
addition, the Peruvian version of the group claimed last April 14 to hacking the Twitter account of the President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, in addition to your website and that of his party. The hackers tweeted, among others, sexual messages to the accounts of Barack Obama.
class=”primero”>is investigating hacking the Twitter account of news agency Associated Press from which was published Tuesday a tweet that warned of “two explosions” in the White House which had been “hurt” the U.S. president, Barack Obama.
Without giving details, FBI spokeswoman Jenny Shearer confirmed the investigation into the hacking of the account, which is currently suspended.
class=”quote_new”> Alert: Two explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is hurt
Meanwhile, a group of hackers supporting Syrian President Bashar Al Asad has claimed responsibility for having carried out the hacking.
“Ops! @ AP has been taken by the Syrian Electronic Army! MAR # # Syria # ByeByeObama” tweeted an account linked to the hacker group, attaching a screenshot AP account and hacked.
“Alert: Two explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is hurt,” could be read on the agency’s official account on Twitter a few minutes after 13.00 local time (17.00 GMT).
information, false, was in network without being contradicted directly by AP for 3 minutes , until Sam Hananel, the wording of the agency in Washington, sent a new tweet denying information and ensuring that the Twitter account of the first agency U.S. News had been pirated.
agency Several journalists and correspondents in Washington were given the same rush to deny the news of the bombs at the White House.
“It seems the AP has been attacked, so anything that has just been sent (from it) is obviously false”, commented on the incident, the agency’s chief correspondent at the White House, Julie Pace, at the beginning of the daily press conference Obama spokesman Jay Carney, at the presidential residence.
However, Wall Street suffered a serious crash and did not recover from the shock until a few minutes after that tweet of AP, which for analysts demonstrates the fragility of some quotes too dependent algorithms and herding behavior.
graphs show a genuine markets plummeting starting at 17.08 GMT, disclosed after the false tweet, so that in just two minutes the stock had lost all the gains of the day.
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