Thursday, August 25, 2011

Student Charged Over Web Attacks

Police questioning the hacking organisation Anonymous have charged a 22-year-old tyro from Hartlepool with P.C. crime.

Peter David Gibson was arrested by the Metropolitan Police's e-Crime Unit.

He is indicted of perplexing to inhibit the operation of, or access to, a P.C. system.

UK detectives, along with their general counterparts have been questioning a array of rejection of service attacks on leading websites.

The hacker "collective" Anonymous has been associated in number of online protests targeting eBay, Visa, PayPal and others.

Its strategy typically entangled flooding the companies' websites with multi-part requests from remotely tranquil networks of computers well known as botnets.

Mr Gibson is due in justice on 7 September.

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