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August 30th 2014 A 19-year-old man has been convicted of carrying out a cyber attack that caused the Metropolitan Police website to crash a year ago. Teesside Magistrates' Court heard how Jordan Jones, unemployed of Billingham, Cleveland...
30 August 2014
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August 28th 2014 Early October will see tens of thousands of British Muslims making the annual pilgrimage to Mecca for Hajj. And every Hajj, a number of pilgrims fall foul of fraudulent travel packages which result in substandard travel and/or...
28 August 2014
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August 26th 2014 The bank holiday weekend saw Sony suffer a multi-pronged attack from hacktivists in response to what the attackers claim is the gaming giant's low levels of spending on improving its PSN service. The hacker/vandal...
26 August 2014
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August 26th 2014 The bank holiday weekend saw Sony suffer a multi-pronged attack from hacktivists in response to what the attackers claim is the gaming giant's low levels of spending on improving its PSN service. The hacker/vandal...
26 August 2014
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August 22nd 2014 A 70 year-old man and his wife from Pershore, Worcestershirehave lost £85,000 as the result of a scam in which fraudsters posed as bank employees to obtain their account login details. For information and advice -...
22 August 2014
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