Missouri state police are taking over security from local officers in the St Louis suburb that has been the scene of violent protests since an unarmed black teenager was shot dead by white police officer.

A computer hacker who helped the US government disrupt hundreds of cyberattacks and cripple the hacktivist crew known as Anonymous will serve no more time in prison after being sentenced to time served.

Having discovered the virus that targetted Iran’s nuclear plants, Liam O’Murchu is one of the world’s top computer security experts, writes Noel Baker. Hacking is now a major industry, and tracking it carries its own risks.

A section of the internet’s “DarkNet” — believed to have huge levels of child pornography and other illegal activity among its content — has shut down just days after the FBI requested an alleged child pornographer be extradited from Ireland.

Liam Gallagher is to sue a US newspaper after it accused him of fathering a secret love child.

North Korea is to blame for last month’s cyberattacks on the websites of South Korean media companies and the president and prime minister’s offices, a South Korean investigation concluded today.

Despite being a loose grouping, Anonymous is concerned about its actions, says Winston Ross

Cyber anarchists Anonymous are again vowing to disrupt this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix.

A cyberattack campaign targeting Israeli government websites failed to cause serious disruption, officials said today.

Two high school football players from Ohio have been found guilty of raping a 16-year-old girl at a party last summer while she was in a drunken stupor.

Two self-styled “hacktivists” were jailed in Britain today for carrying out cyber attacks with hacking group Anonymous, one of which cost a website £3.5m (€4.2m).

Four men will be sentenced today for carrying out cyber attacks with hacking group Anonymous.

Well known as a wingman, Declan Sinnott has left it until the age of 62 to make his first solo album, writes Gerry Quinn

They’ve hacked the CIA, the Sun newspaper, the Church of Scientology and a host of other large corporations, sparking a global police crackdown. But who and what are Anonymous? A radical new form of activism – or just bored teenagers? Carole Cadwalladr spoke with some of the ‘hacktivists’ and the experts who tracked them down

A Florida company has admitted its files — not an FBI agent’s laptop — were hacked by a renegade group that released Apple product identification data it claimed to have obtained through a breach of the nation’s top law enforcement agency.

The website of the Moscow court that jailed three members of the punk band Pussy Riot has been hacked.

Hacking group Anonymous has claimed to have shut down a computer server belonging to Australia's domestic spy agency ASIO.

A group of hackers have claimed responsibility for taking down the home office website apparently in protest against government extradition and surveillance policies.

China is struggling to restore several government websites that international hacking group Anonymous says it attacked in an apparent protest against Chinese internet restrictions.

As six suspected members of ‘hacktivist’ groups are named and face charges, the spotlight again shines on the shady world of internet hacking, writes Conall Ó Fátharta

A Galway student accused by the FBI of being a founding member of an international hacking splinter group has said he is “frightened” by the prospect of the unfolding investigation.

The FBI has accused a county councillor’s son of tapping into a conference call the agency had with the garda fraud squad as it investigated an international hacking ring.

Gardaí have arrested one of five men being sought in connection with the activities of computer-hacking collective LulzSec.

Twenty-five suspected members of the Anonymous hacker movement have been arrested in police raids across Europe and South America.

The Anonymous hackers group claims it has broken into the website of a US company whose tear gas has been used against demonstrators in Egypt.

A sensitive conference call between FBI and British police’s cybercrime investigators was recorded by the very people they were trying to catch, officials and hackers said.

Hacking group Anonymous are believed to have been behind a cyber attack which shut down the justice and finance department’s websites in the early hours of yesterday morning.

Michael Lohan collapsed during an Alcoholic's Anonymous meeting on Tuesday.

A group of online hackers have say they have donated over a million dollars to charity, after stealing credit card details from America's Department of Defence and dozens of other major organisations.

Entertainer Michael Barrymore was found with cocaine in his pocket after launching a foul-mouthed tirade at police, a court heard today.

HACTIVIST group, Anonymous, has launched an all-out assault on the users and hosts of websites containing child pornography.

Suzanne Harrington joins the worldwide hordes who aren’t just moaning about the economic crisis — they’re getting out and doing something about it

TWO young men have been arrested on suspicion of computer hacking which crashed the Fine Gael website.

REGULAR users of Facebook are awaiting confirmation from “hackivist” group Anonymous that it is actually behind a threat to “kill” the social network site on November 5.

Two Gulf Arab nations have joined Saudi Arabia in recalling their ambassadors from Syria in the wake of bloody crackdown, further isolating President Bashar Assad's regime.

DETECTIVES arrested a 19-year-old man as part of the investigation into hacking groups Anonymous and LulzSec.

Fourteen people have been arrested in the US for allegedly mounting a cyberattack on PayPal’s website in retaliation for suspending the accounts of WikiLeaks.

A BRITISH teenager suspected of masterminding a global computer hacking plot from his bedroom could face a fight against extradition to the US.

SPANISH police arrested three suspected members of the so-called “Anonymous” group yesterday on charges of cyber attacks against targets including Sony’s PlayStation store, governments, businesses and banks.

THE recent cyber attacks at Sony are just the latest in a increasingly long string of assaults on the databases of major firms across the globe.

SONY could face legal action across the globe after it delayed disclosing a security breach of its popular PlayStation Network, infuriating gamers and sending the firm’s shares down nearly 5% yesterday.

THREE teenagers were arrested yesterday on suspicion of computer hacking linked to attacks on companies perceived as enemies of whistleblowing website Wikileaks.

Hackers accessed phone numbers, email and personal computer details of just under 2,000 subscribers to Fine Gael’s revamped website during a four-hour cyber attack, the party confirmed today.

It has been claimed that the personal details of nearly 4,000 people were obtained during an overnight attack on the Fine Gael website.