[LINK] DDOS attackers arrested

[Jan Whitaker]

"Hunt for hackers backing WikiLeaks
London
January 29, 2011

BRITISH police have arrested five people and the FBI launched raids 
across the US as part of an investigation into cyber attacks by 
online group ''Anonymous'', which last year assailed websites hostile 
to WikiLeaks.

In a series of dawn raids in England on Thursday, three teenage males 
and two adult men were arrested on suspicion of breaking the Computer 
Misuse Act 1990, London's Metropolitan Police Service said.

On the same day, the FBI executed more than 40 search warrants 
throughout the United States. An FBI statement was the first 
indication that the US intends to prosecute the so-called 
''hacktivists'' for their actions in support of WikiLeaks.
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The statement noted that attacks, known as distributed denial of 
service attacks and which use easily available software to shut down 
a computer network by flooding it with millions of requests for 
information, violate federal law and are punishable by a prison 
sentence of 10 years.

The statement noted that a group known as Anonymous had claimed 
credit for the attacks. Anonymous is also believed responsible in 
recent days for attacks on government websites in Tunisia and Egypt.

British news reports said three of those arrested were aged 15, 16 
and 19, and that the others were 20 and 26 years old. Dutch police 
last month arrested two teenagers suspected of involvement in the 
online campaign."
[more at:
http://www.theage.com.au/world/hunt-for-hackers-backing-wikileaks-20110128-1a8cl.html

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