Essex Teenager Accused of Helping LulzSec Strike SOCA

An Essex teenager, aged 19, who was recently, detained amidst doubts that he committed computer crimes, is now facing legal accusation of helping LulzSec wage assault against SOCA the Serious Organized Crime Agency, thus published V3.co.uk in news on June 23, 2011.

The accused, Ryan Cleary apparently utilized a botnet for aiding a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) assault against SOCA's website, police allege. Evidently, the charges against Cleary relate to numerous breaches he committed of the Computer Misuse Act of 1990. SOCA, amongst other responsibilities, handles investigations of prominent PC-crimes in Britain.

Said officials in United Kingdom that they accused Cleary of 5 counts of PC-related crimes of which one associated with contaminating computers and building a botnet out of them with which he executed cyber assaults. In addition they stated that Cleary aided in launching assaults which aimed at the websites belonging to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and the SOCA of U.K.

Notably, Wickford, England-based Cleary has been associated with hacker gangs Anonymous and LulzSec, which employed DDoS assaults for detaching business and government websites from the Internet.

Anonymous, whose computer firework was shattered following that capture thereby preventing the gang from launching assaults, started utilizing a botnet, which according to Cleary, was operated with the help of Anonymous' own PCs.

Stated Senior Technology Consultant Graham Cluley of Sophos the security company, media speculated that Cleary possibly involved himself with LulzSec too to wage cyber assaults on the CIA and Sony websites. V3.co.uk reported this on June 21, 2011.

Meanwhile, a few security experts emphasized that Cleary ultimately used his botnet for aiding LulzSec that during the past few weeks asserted of carrying out several PC infiltrations against government agencies and business organizations. They added that the PCs, which Cleary managed, formed the foundation for the online chat channel that LulzSec operated.

Nevertheless, LulzSec attempted at staying away from Cleary. On June 21, 2011, the gang tweeted that Cleary wasn't a part of it except that it hosted a lawful chat channel from among its many such channels on Cleary's IRC server. ComputerWorld reported this on June 22, 2011.

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