Brit cops first victims as hackers unite against governments
San Francisco - An alliance of the world's two most notorious hacker groups, LulzSec and Anonymous, claimed Monday that it took down the website of Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA).
The high profile cyber-attack came just a day after the groups announced on Twitter that they were launching Operation Anti-Security to target government websites across the world to protest attempts to regulate the internet and curtail the privacy of net users.
Within 24 hours the group demonstrated its prowess when LulzSec tweeted that the SOCA Web site was offline "in the name of #AntiSec" and warned that worse was to come.
The group said it executed a distributed denial of service attack - a well-known method of taking down websites. DDOS attacks use rings of hijacked computers to overwhelm web servers.//DPA