| 61 |  LONDON (Reuters) - The British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp looks set to settle at great expense a string of legal claims after admitting wide-scale phone hacking that was both known about and concealed by senior management.
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| 62 | LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Internet activist group Anonymous published a recording on Friday of a confidential call between FBI agents and London detectives in which the law-enforcement agents discuss action they are taking against hacking.
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| 63 | LONDON (Reuters) - A further 15 politicians, sportsmen and celebrities reached settlements with the British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp on Wednesday over a phone hacking scandal that has rocked his global media empire.
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| 64 | Members of the hacking group LulzSec, whose name means laughing at security, are probably not laughing following the arrests of five people in the United Kingdom and in Chicago on Tuesday.
More dramatically, the information that led to the arrests may have come from an informant, himself a top LulzSec hacker who had been arrested last June, according to Fox News. Fox's online report identified the informer as Hector Xavier Monsegur, 28, who used the aliases The Real Sabu and Xavier deLeon, an unemployed father living in a public housing project on New York's Lower East Side.
Rooting Out the Rooter
The arrests immediately followed the unsealing of indictment documents from August on 12 counts of hacking-related charges in New York's Southern District federal court. The documents, posted by Fox, say that Monsegur acted as a "rooter" who identified weaknesses in computer systems and either exploited them himself or passed them along to others to exploit them.
The documents allege that Monsegur was involved in a conspiracy with Anonymous from at least 2010 until June 7, 2011.
Although LulzSec claims it's all about the fun, the federal documents allege that Monsegur accessed the Web site of an automotive parts company and obtained four automobile motors for himself worth about $3,450.
Fox identified the other members of LulzSec as Ryan Ackroyd, (aka "Kayla") and Jake Davis, aka "Topiary," of London; Darren Martyn, (aka "pwnsauce") and Donncha O'Cearrbhail, (aka "palladium,") of Ireland.
An American man, Jeremy Hammond (aka "Anarchaos") was arrested in Chicago and charged with being part of Anonymous. He is reportedly tied to the hacking of U.S. security firm Stratfor that led to thousands of internal e-mails being posted on WikiLeaks.
"This is devastating to the organization," an FBI official told Fox News. "We're chopping off the head of LulzSec."
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| 65 | NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. authorities said on Tuesday top members of the LulzSec computer hacking group were arrested and its leader had previously pleaded guilty to carrying out over a dozen cyber attacks on major companies.
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| 66 | LONDON (Reuters) - Big payouts to victims of phone-hacking by Rupert Murdoch's now-defunct News of the World paper are set to drive up the damages awarded in privacy cases in Britain, according to a recent judgment and experts in media law.
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| 67 | NEW YORK (Reuters) - One of the world's most-wanted hackers secretly became an FBI informant last year, providing evidence that led to charges on Tuesday against five other suspected leaders of the Anonymous international hacking group.
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| 68 | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft's process for sharing information about security vulnerabilities in its products came under fire Friday after a roadmap for exploiting a severe, recently discovered flaw appeared on a hacking website in China.
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| 69 | (Reuters) - A Chinese defense contractor on Saturday denied that documents posted to the Web by a computer hacker came from an intrusion of the company, as the hacker said in public statements and interviews with Reuters.
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| 70 | LONDON (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's Times of London is facing a claim for exemplary damages after admitting hacking into the email of an anonymous police blogger to expose his identity, lawyer Mark Lewis told Reuters on Friday.
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| 71 | LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's media regulator said on Monday it had launched an investigation into Sky News, the influential news channel of Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB, which has admitted twice hacking into emails to generate a story.
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| 72 | LONDON (Reuters) - The judge presiding over an inquiry into British press standards on Monday rebuked the head of Sky News, the influential news channel of Rupert Murdoch-controlled BSkyB, for breaking the law by hacking into emails to generate a story.
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