{"id":30618,"date":"2011-08-01T11:54:13","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T09:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=30618"},"modified":"2011-09-05T08:48:25","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T06:48:25","slug":"third-lulzsec-hacker-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/30618-third-lulzsec-hacker-arrested.html","title":{"rendered":"Third LulzSec hacker arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 18 year old hacker arrested last week for his alleged involvement with hacking groups Anonymous and LulzSec has been named as Jake Davis, a teen hacker from the Shetland Islands in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>While Scotland Yard remains tight lipped regarding Davis, revealing only that he will appear in a London court on Monday morning, a Blog post[http:\/\/nakedsecurity.sophos.com\/2011\/07\/31\/jake-davis-named-as-suspected-hacker-topiary-by-uk-police\/] by Graham Cluley of Sophos lists five of the charges against Davies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unauthorized access to a computer system, contrary to Section 3 of the Computer Misuse Act 1990.<\/li>\n<li>Encouraging \/ assisting offences, contrary to S46 of the Serious Crime Act 2007.<\/li>\n<li>Conspiracy with others to carry out a Distributed Denial of Service Attack <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2387319,00.asp\">on the Web site of the Serious and Organised Crime Agency<\/a> contrary to S1 Criminal Law Act 1977.<\/li>\n<li>Conspiracy to commit offences of section 3 Computer Misuse Act 1990, contrary to S1 Criminal Law Act 1977.<\/li>\n<li>Conspiracy between the defendant and others to commit offences of section 3 Computer Misuse Act 1990 contrary to S1 Criminal Law Act 1977.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While a post on the <a href=\"http:\/\/lulzsecexposed.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/disinformation.html\" target=\"_blank\">LulzSec Blog<\/a> stated that Davis is not the hacker \u201cTopiary\u201d, who is thought to be second-in-command of the LulzSec group, he previously acted as a PR liaison for hacktivist group Anonymous.<\/p>\n<p>Topiary\u2019s personal twitter account has recently seen posts deleted from its timeline, while the @LulzSec twitter account has been quiet since July 27, the day Davis was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2389486,00.asp\" target=\"_blank\">PCMag<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LulzSec hacker \u201cTopiary\u201d arrested in the UK by Scotland Yard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":29770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[189,461,1563],"class_list":["post-30618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-anonymous","tag-hacking","tag-lulzsec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33202,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30618\/revisions\/33202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}