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Submission + - LulzSec suspected arrested by UK police (sophos.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @07:46AM

An anonymous reader writes: The UK's Police Computer e-Crime Unit (PCeU) has arrested a 19-year-old man in Wickford, Essex, in connection with the series of LulzSec attacks against organizations including the CIA, PBS and Sony.

The man, who has been arrested under the Computer Misuse and Fraud Act, has had his house searched and a significant amount of material taken away by police for forensic examination.

The PCeU worked with local Essex police and the FBI on the investigation.

Comment I Thought Most Android Users Got a Virus Scanner? (Score 1) 279

by amuench on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @12:23AM (#35344742) Attached to: Infected Androids Run Up Big Texting Bills

I mean, I downloaded a virus scanner the first day I got mine, because I knew there were some viruses in the Android market, and I found one that also did remote location and backup. Plus, it showed up on the popular list in the Market as well. It scans every install, update, and even any out-of-market apps I install. I just thought most people would know better...I guess not.

Not to mention that most people are right--if a live wallpaper program wants to send out text messages--you probably shouldn't let it

Magnetism Can Sway Man's Moral Compass 586

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday March 30, 2010 @03:00PM from the so-can-hot-chicks dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "Discovery News reports that scientists have identified a region of the brain which appears to control morality and discovered that a powerful magnetic field can scramble the moral center of the brain, impairing volunteers' notion of right and wrong. 'You think of morality as being a really high-level behavior,' says Liane Young, a scientist at MIT and co-author of the article. 'To be able to apply (a magnetic field) to a specific brain region and change people's moral judgments is really astonishing.' Young and her colleagues used functional magnetic resonance imaging to locate an area of the brain just above and behind the right ear known as the right temporo-parietal junction (RTPJ), which other studies had previously related to moral judgments. Volunteers were exposed to transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for 25 minutes before reading stories involving morally questionable characters, and being asked to judge their actions. The researchers found that when the RTPJ was disrupted volunteers were more likely to judge actions solely on the basis of whether they caused harm — not whether they were morally wrong in themselves. The scientists didn't permanently remove the subjects' moral sensibilities and on the scientists' seven point scale, the difference was about one point, averaging out to about a 15 percent change, 'but it's still striking to see such a change in such high level behavior as moral decision-making.' Young points out that the study was correlation; their work only links the RTJP, morality, and magnetic fields, but doesn't definitively prove that one causes another."

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