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Four young computer hackers who masterminded cyberattacks on targets from the CIA to Sony Pictures and Rupert Murdoch’s News International were sentenced to up to 32 months in prison on Thursday.

Computer hackers, including an ex-soldier from South Yorkshire, considered themselves to be “modern day pirates”, a court has heard.

By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) – Four British hackers who took part in 2011 cyber-attacks on targets ranging from the CIA to Sony were audacious, arrogant men whose motivation was “anarchic self-amusement”, a court heard on Wednesday.

RT New cables 'expose' US govt lobbies worldwide for Monsanto, other GMO corps RT After US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks showed that the State Department was lobbying worldwide for Monsanto and other similar corporations, a new report based on the cables shows Washington's shilling for the biotech industry in distinct detail. and more

Salon Julian Assange: The government is a vindictive loser Salon Assange, Manning and WikiLeaks , by making public in 2010 half a million internal documents from the Pentagon and the State Department, along with the 2007 video of US helicopter pilots nonchalantly gunning down Iraqi civilians, including children, and … and more

Anonymous was praised for its recent cyberattacks on North Korea, however the hacking collective has shown that it is a friend to no one.

Free the Universe Soundblab Peaches delivers the latest in a long line of hilariously filthy raps, including telling us she can “feel your wikileak “. Oh, Peaches.

strongSwan is a complete IPsec implementation for the Linux, Android, Maemo, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X operating systems. It interoperates with with most other IPsec-based VPN products via the IKEv2 or IKEv1 key exchange protocols. The focus of the strongSwan project is on strong authentication mechanisms using X.509 public key certificates and optional secure storage of private keys on smartcards through a standardized PKCS#11 interface.

Chagossians: Wikileaks cables not admissible in court UK Human Rights Blog (blog) The cables contain confidential information. If the court disallowed the FCO's witnesses from relying on the NCND policy, the court would be in breach of s.6 because there would be repercussions for the future use of Wikileaks cables, foreign relations ..

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