Hackers attack suspects the Prosecutor released but … – publico

                 

                         
                     

                         

                 

 
                         

The eight held by the Judiciary Police as part of a major operation in Lisbon and Porto, with 70 employees, came out in the early evening on Friday released after being heard at first interrogation by an investigating judge . The magistrate saw unproven assumptions necessary for them to implement a more severe coercive measure would be like custody and considered it sufficient to prevent them from accessing the Internet, said the PUBLIC police source.

                     

                         This coercive measure, said the same source is not easy to control, but the court may eventually notify market participants that now provide Internet access providing the names of the accused and determined to ban so that any contract is done with these people. However, it is possible that use the names of other people or even make use of Internet cafes or portable Internet access that do not require any subscription and therefore are not identified.

All eight detainees have collaborated, approving give evidence to the judge of the Criminal Court of Lisbon throughout the day. Their statements have helped the magistrate and the Public Prosecutor to understand the involvement of the accused in these hacking actions ligagadas the Anonymous group and who did not finish the day they were arrested. Some of the suspects have begun by knowing in 2013 and 2014 demonstrations in which tapavam with the typical mask commonly used by Anonymous. By reference to such behavior and identification, the operation of the PJ was called “Caretos.”

Hackers turn to attack and require release of members of Anonymous

Less than 24 hours after the operation of the Judicial Police that led to the arrest of eight people by participating in several attacks on computer systems of public and private institutions, the Sudoh4kers group, which identifies itself as part of Anonymous Portugal, claimed this morning a action against the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS) of the University of Lisbon.

In post published early on Friday on his Facebook page, the Sudoh4kers identifies the site of the Institute of Social Sciences as the target of a computer attack, including the address giving access to the basic postgraduate institution data. In post are advanced passwords to access the database.

In addition to the institute, the group list those that appear to be their next targets, including site the Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon and pages associated with it. At the end of the message on the social network, the warning: “The cyber attacks in universities and government agencies will continue until they [members of Anonymous] are released … The advance with the process without knowledge of it will bring future problems for your systems. “

Earlier this post , the group published another message which demanded the” immediate freedom for the seven members of Anonymous arrested by the Judicial Police. ” “We have even more of what you think, much more … Anonymous is immortal! They can not arrest an idea,” they added.

By 12:15 on Friday, the site of the Institute of Social Sciences recorded several problems in access to various subsections. The contact tabs, information on research or on their own institute opened incomplete pages. When PUBLIC, the institute refused to make any comment on the case, stating only that “are trying to solve the problem. “

The attack came a day after an operation of the Judicial Police have resulted in the arrest of eight people, including the creator of the site Tugaleaks, Rui Cruz suspected of cyber attacks to servers that host sites institutions as the District Attorney General of Lisbon, the Judicial Police, the Supreme Judicial Council and Commission EDP Portfolio Professional Journalist.

Rui Cruz has a title equivalent to a journalist, as the Tugaleaks is registered as organ of social communication. The title however wire suspended at the initiative of the Committee on Professional Journalist Portfolio. Reporters Without Borders condemned this statement on Friday the arrest of a journalist worrying considering that a jornaista may have been arrested for revealing the existence of these attacks.

However, what is at stake is much more than the disclosure that is not a crime. The creator of Tugaleaks is suspected of having instigated the attacks is even involved in some of them. Moreover, would have some up on the remaining group emerging as one of its leaders, said the police source PUBLIC. The same source explained that the site was a kind of official information organ of hacking that attacked the sites of important state services and private companies. The site disclosed all the attacks, however, and not having any disclosure criminal relevance is this action that is concerned.