Lulzsec target SOCA website with DDoS attack

The UK Serious Organised Crime agency has taken its website offline after it appeared to be a victim of an attack by hacking group Lulz Security. Soca said it had taken its website offline to limit the impact attack on clients hosted by its service provider. Soca.gov.uk had been unavailable for much of Monday afternoon, […]

UK Met Police hit by IT outage but plays down attack fears

The Metropolitan Police Service is investigating the cause of a “major network issue” that has prevented staff using some IT services for almost two weeks including aspects of the Police National Computer system.. A Met spokesman confirmed the problem was first identified on 9th June, but insisted no critical systems had been downed by the […]