Spain arrests 5 suspected of hacking US sites

May 17, 2008 By DANIEL WOOLLS, Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- Spanish police have arrested five people suspected of hacking into or outright disabling thousands of Internet pages, some of them run by government agencies in the U.S., Latin America and Asia, authorities said Saturday.

Content from The Associated Press expires 15 days after original publication date. For more information about The Associated Press, please visit www.ap.org .

Similar stories from PHYSorg:

Solar Cells with LEDs Provide Inexpensive Lighting

18 hours ago | 4.8 / 5 (11) | 1

Expanding drug treatment: Is US ready to step up?

Nov 08, 2009 | not rated yet | 1

Framed for child porn -- by a PC virus

Nov 08, 2009 | 5 / 5 (6) | 3

Landmark health bill passes House on close vote

Nov 08, 2009 | 3.8 / 5 (10) | 5

W. Africa's last giraffes make surprising comeback

Nov 08, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Rate this story - 5 /5 (1 vote)

rank
1
2
3
4
5

view popular

Other News

Members of an Australian college have provoked outrage after they launched a "pro-rape" group on website Facebook

Australian students 'pro-rape' Facebook scandal

Technology / Internet

9 minutes ago | not rated yet | 0

Members of an elite Australian college linked to Sydney University provoked outrage Tuesday after it was revealed they had set up a "pro-rape" group on social networking site Facebook.

The user-pays model is already in place at News Corp's Wall Street Journal

News Corp's Murdoch warns he may block Google

Technology / Internet

1hour ago | not rated yet | 1

Global media mogul Rupert Murdoch has accused Google of stealing from his News Corp. empire, and warned he may block the search engine from accessing its content.

EU objects to Oracle's takeover of Sun

Technology / Business

10 hours ago | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(AP) -- European antitrust regulators have formally objected to Sun Microsystems Inc.'s planned $7.4 billion sale to Oracle Corp., escalating a battle over a deal that has already been cleared in the U.S.

Commercialization of new solar technology to boost solar efficiency

Technology / Energy

16 hours ago | 3.5 / 5 (6) | 0

A pioneer in solar power in the 1990s before it became "sexy," University of Houston Professor Alex Freundlich recently entered into a collaborative research agreement with U.K.-based start-up QuantaSol for the development ...

Video fingerprinting offers search solution

Technology / Computer Sciences

16 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The explosive growth of video on the internet calls for new ways of sorting and searching audiovisual content. A team of European researchers has developed a groundbreaking solution that is ...