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Hackers

The following articles have been tagged with "Hackers":

US ISPs block hacker probes: Swedish police

Business & Money: 7 Feb 12
The Swedish National Police Board has called for new international laws to catch hackers on the internet, after US internet service providers refused to divulge information on the weekend's attack on government websites. READ »

Hackers mount Swedish government cyber attack

Science & Technology: 4 Feb 12
The "hacktivist" group Anonymous claimed responsibility for a cyber attack on the websites of the Swedish government on Saturday as part of protests against anti-piracy regulations. READ »

'Ass attack' downs Swedish model's blog

Society: 1 Aug 11
Hackers used a graphic photograph of a man's naked buttocks to attack a popular website about Stockholm's nightlife, singling out some of the site's popular female bloggers in the cyberattack. READ »

Swedish FM's blog posts racy ads after hack

Science & Technology: 28 Dec 10
Recent hacks on Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt's blog have resulted in the site briefly displaying ads for Russian wives, Danish capital advisers and motivational speakers. READ »

Assange granted bail as court rejects appeal

National: 16 Dec 10
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was granted conditional bail on Thursday after a London court rejected an appeal to keep him in jail as he fights extradition to Sweden to answer allegations of sex crimes. READ »

Assange remains in prison on bail challenge

National: 15 Dec 10
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange remains in a London prison even after a British court decided to grant him bail on charges of rape and molestation after Swedish prosecutors challenged the ruling. READ »

Sweden appeal keeps Assange in prison

National: 14 Dec 10
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is to remain in prison despite being granted conditional bail earlier on Tuesday after lawyers acting for Sweden said they would challenge the ruling. READ »

Second bail hearing for WikiLeaks' Assange

National: 14 Dec 10
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is expected to appear in a British court on Tuesday in a second attempt to secure bail after his arrest over allegations of sex crimes in Sweden. READ »

Justice minister caught in WikiLeaks 'net wars'

Science & Technology: 9 Dec 10
The name of Sweden's justice minister Beatrice Ask has been hijacked on the internet, with a website featuring her name in the address now linking to WikiLeaks as the Swedish government's website was also crippled by an apparent cyber attack. READ »

Hacker attacks reported to Swedish police

National: 8 Dec 10
A new brand of hacker attack knocked out the websites of the Swedish prosecutor's office as well as the lawyer representing the women at the centre of rape allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The matter has now been reported to the police. READ »

Hackers disable Swedish prosecutor's website

Science & Technology: 8 Dec 10
Hackers brought down the website of the Swedish prosecutor's office on Tuesday night in an apparent show of support for embattled WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who was remanded by a British court earlier in the day. READ »

Assange remanded by London court

National: 7 Dec 10
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was remanded in custody by London court on Tuesday after he vowed to fight extradition to Sweden to face rape allegations. READ »

Sweden Democrat members exposed in leak

Politics: 21 Sep 10
A register of over 5,000 people who are either members or have registered their interest in the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats, has been published on the internet. READ »

Vilks arson suspects remanded into custody

National: 18 May 10
Two brothers suspected of targeting controversial Swedish artist Lars Vilks' home in Nyhamnsläge in southern Sweden have been remanded into custody for attempted arson. READ »

Google downgrades Sweden Democrats

National: 29 Apr 10
The far-right Sweden Democrats have almost disappeared from the Google search engine, as attacks from opponents and their own oversight have cut exposure just when they need it most - as an election beckons. READ »

Police website falls victim to cyber attack

Society: 29 Oct 09
A number of major Swedish websites were rendered inaccessible on Thursday in what is believed to be a malicious distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. READ »

Card firm hacking hits thousands of Swedes

Business & Money: 14 Oct 09
Debit card information for tens of thousands of Swedish banking customers may have fallen into the wrong hands following a security breach at card manufacturers MasterCard and Visa. READ »

'Sackey Wasky' whacks wallets of Swedish men

Society: 15 Jul 09
A cunning internet con artist posing as a love-struck woman from Ghana has succeeded in defrauding a number of Swedish men of hundreds of thousands of kronor. READ »

Gang leader's email posted on the internet

National: 7 Jan 09
Hackers on Tuesday night accessed an email account used by the head of the Original Gangsters (OG) criminal gang and later published the correspondence on a popular internet forum. READ »

‘Are they baby-eating monsters or what?’

Analysis & Opinion: 1 Oct 08
Pirates, pioneers, or petty thieves? Majsan Boström meets Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij, two of the leading figures from file-sharing giant The Pirate Bay. READ »

Hackers penetrate police email accounts

National: 29 Feb 08
Hackers accessed police email accounts hosted by the Swedish Association of Computer Professionals. READ »

Hackers hit Swedish student discount card sites

National: 27 Jan 08
Information on nearly one million students may have been compromised. READ »

Hackers spoil Anoto election plans

Science & Technology: 7 Dec 07
Plans to use digital pens from Swedish company Anoto in German elections have been axed after hackers claimed to have breached the pens' security system. READ »

Agency calls for ceasefire in hacking war

Society: 24 Oct 07
With Turkish hackers resuming their attacks on Swedish websites this week, Sweden's IT security agency is urging domestic hackers to keep their cool. READ »

Swedish hackers target Turkish forum

Science & Technology: 16 Oct 07
Swedish hackers have retaliated against their Turkish counterparts following an attack earlier this month on some 5,000 Swedish websites. READ »

Internet pirates report entertainment giants to police

Science & Technology: 24 Sep 07
The Pirate Bay has reported a number of major players in the film and music industries to the police following suspicions that the companies hired hackers to undermine the file-sharing site. READ »

The Pirate Bay hacked

Society: 11 May 07
File-sharing site The Pirate Bay has been hacked. The unauthorized entry via a bug in the code resulted in the theft of the usernames and passwords of all 1.6 million registered users. READ »

Fraudsters hijack SEB credit cards

Business & Money: 9 May 07
Credit and debit card numbers belonging to at least 10,000 SEB customers could have been hijacked by fraudsters, the bank has admitted. READ »

Sweden a haven for digital identity theft

Business & Money: 19 Mar 07
Only the USA has more underground economy servers than Sweden, according to a new report. Stolen information is sold from these servers for use in identity theft. READ »

Russian gangs suspected of Swedish bank fraud

Business & Money: 19 Jan 07
A total of 8 million kronor has been stolen from accounts at Swedish bank Nordea after attacks by hackers, believed to be from Russia. More than 250 customers have been hit. READ »

Hackers target Swedish union web site

Science & Technology: 1 Jan 07
The web site of Swedish union organisation LO was hacked on the morning of New Year's Day. READ »

Justice minister was hackers' target

National: 6 Jun 06
As police search for hackers who allegedly disabled police and government websites at the weekend, it has emerged that web users were being redirected to Thomas Bodström's picture on the Swedish government's site. READ »

Security police probe web site attack

National: 5 Jun 06
The Swedish Security Service has been called in to investigate a suspected hacker attack that crashed the government's web site on Sunday, amid speculation that it was revenge for the closure of a popular file sharing site. READ »

Hackers crash Swedish government web site

Smörgåsbord: 4 Jun 06
The file sharing fight steps up a notch: the Swedish government web site was out of action overnight and the police site was offline again on Sunday morning. "It's a battle the authorities are never going to win," say protestors. READ »

Swedish teenager suspected of hacking into NASA

National: 10 May 05
A 16 year old boy from Uppsala is at the centre of an international investigation into a major spate of hacking attacks on the US military, NASA and IT companies. READ »

Swedish anti-piracy web site hacked after ISP raid

National: 14 Mar 05
The fight between "anti-piracy" organisations and those who advocate free sharing of music and film files comes to Sweden, and it's getting dirty, with paid informers, dawn raids, hacked web sites and death threats. READ »


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