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Police shut down Mariposa hacker ring

By Gideon Swift | Published: March 4, 2010
Police, private security experts and internet service providers said on Wednesday they had shut down the Mariposa botnet, one of the largest networks of hacked personal computers discovered. It had siphoned off financial and other information from inside half of the largest 1,000 US companies. Computers using about 12.7m internet addresses in 190 countries were [...]
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‘Arctic Sea’ was carrying illegal arms, says general

By Gideon Swift | Published: August 29, 2009
A general close to the investigation into the mysterious voyage of the Arctic Sea has told a Russian newspaper that he suspected the ship was carrying a secret cargo of illegal weapons, as many conspiracy theorists have suggested. The newspaper, Komsomolskaya Pravda, interviewed what it described as a senior general in the Russian Navy who [...]
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Police to destroy DNA profiles of 800,000 innocent people

By Gideon Swift | Published: May 3, 2009
DNA profiles of almost a million innocent people are to be destroyed as part of a major overhaul of the police national database. They include people who have been arrested and never charged, and those taken to court but found not guilty. Civil rights groups gave a cautious welcome to the proposals – which will [...]
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