{"id":33106,"date":"2011-09-02T07:24:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T05:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=33106"},"modified":"2011-09-02T09:43:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T07:43:49","slug":"anonymous-and-lulz-security-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/33106-anonymous-and-lulz-security-arrests.html","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous and Lulz Security arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British police say they have arrested two men as part of an ongoing investigation with the FBI into attacks carried out by the hacking groups <a title=\"Anonymous hactivist organisation\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/362618-Anonymous\">Anonymous<\/a> and <a title=\"Lulz Security\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/362622-Lulz-Security\">Lulz Security<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Thursday a 24-year-old and a 20-year-old were arrested in relation to a series of &#8220;serious computer intrusions&#8221; and denial-of-service attacks on companies, public institutions, government and law enforcement agencies in the U.K. and U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the men remain in custody for questioning and that computer equipment has been seized as part of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Hacking group Lulz Security has claimed responsibility for attacks on targets such as <a title=\"Sony\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/359638-Sony-Ericsson\">Sony Corp<\/a>., the CIA and Britain&#8217;s Serious Organized Crime Agency.<\/p>\n<p>The group is a spin-off of Anonymous, whose targets have included <a title=\"Visa Inc\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/305973-Visa-Inc.\">Visa<\/a> and <a title=\"MasterCard\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/362624-MasterCard\">MasterCard<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British police say they have arrested two men as part of an ongoing investigation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":29764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,189,1187],"class_list":["post-33106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-anonymous","tag-lulz-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33106"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33108,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33106\/revisions\/33108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}