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A NSW man who allegedly hacked a government website and claimed to lead an international hackers' group was thoroughly vetted, his former employer says.

A Sydney-based IT professional claiming to be a leader of an international hacking collective has been charged with hacking into a government website.

Federal police have charged a 24-year-old NSW man, whom they claim is the leader a computer group known as Lulzsec, with hacking offences.

The self-proclaimed leader of international hacking group Lulz Security has been arrested in Sydney by Australian Federal Police.

Lulz Security gained notoriety in 2011 for hacking government and corporate websites “for fun”.

The Federal Police say they have arrested the self-proclaimed leader of international hacking group Lulz Security, or LulzSec.

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Apple Security Advisory 2013-04-16-2 – Java for OS X 2013-003 and Mac OS X v10.6 Update 15 are now available and address many vulnerabilities in 1.6.0_43.

Apple Security Advisory 2013-04-16-1 – Safari 6.0.4 is now available and fixes one vulnerability. Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution Description: An invalid cast issue existed in the handling of SVG files. This issue was addressed through improved type checking.

ftpd on Mac OS X 10.8.3 suffers from a denial of service vulnerability.