Unglonia entered its first Cybernations world cup today, losinf to Dark Mark 4-2, but not without a fight

Source:http://forums.cybernations.net/index.php?/topic/116478-cn-world-cup-2013-results/#entry3125704

In light of the recent DDoS Attack on reddit mentioned a few days ago, Reddit has released a dossier concerning the attack.

http://en.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/1cyfrk/ddos_dossier/

The self-proclaimed leader of international hacking group Lulz Security has been arrested in Sydney by Australian Federal Police.

The AFP says the 24-year-old man from the Gosford suburb of Point Clare, who claims to be in charge of Lulz Security, or LulzSec, was arrested yesterday.

The man, known online as Aush0k, is a senior Australian IT professional who works for the local arm of an international IT company.

Police say he was in a "position of trust" within the company and had access to information on government clients.

The AFP says its investigation began less than two weeks ago when investigators found a government website had been compromised.

The man has been charged with two counts of unauthorised modification of data to cause impairment and one count of unauthorised access to a restricted computer system.

He faces a maximum of 12 years in jail.




LulzSec has previously claimed responsibility for high-profile hacking attacks, including one which took the CIA website offline.

The 24-year-old man is the first alleged member of the group to be charged by the AFP.

AFP Commander Glen McEwen says the man worked for an IT company.

"This man is known to international law enforcement and police will allege he was in a position of trust within the company with access to information from clients including government agencies," he said.

Commander McEwen says the man posted in online forums frequented by other members of LulzSec that he was the group's leader.

"There was no denials of his claims of being the leader," Commander McEwen said.

He says the man also discussed the claims with the AFP.

The LulzSec group allegedly broke into Australian Government departments, universities and schools in 2011.

Some of the targets included AusAid, Victorian Government departments and local councils in Victoria and New South Wales.

Passwords for email accounts within eight Australian universities were leaked, along with the logins for two high schools in Queensland and Melbourne.

Commander McEwen says the AFP acted swiftly on information about the alleged hacker.

"Yesterday's arrest comes less than two weeks after the AFP first discovered the offender's alleged hacking activity," he said.

"The AFP will not tolerate the attempts of hackers to damage or destroy the online property of Australian individuals, companies or national infrastructure resources."

The man was charged and appeared in court yesterday. He will face Woy Woy Local Court again on May 15.

Commander McEwen says the seriousness of the crime is not about the magnitude of damage done, but the breach of security.

"The potential for such access has huge ramifications for society," he said.

"There was a decision made that the early intervention was something that needed to be activated on because the potential for damage is immeasurable.

"I just need to really make that extremely clear to everybody out there, that this is not harmless fun."



Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-24/lulz-security-hacking-leader-arrested-in-nsw/4648134

Canadian authorities say they have arrested and charged two men with an al Qaeda-linked plot to "carry out a terrorist attack" against a passenger train.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police on Monday named the two accused as Chiheb Esseghaier and Raed Jaser, from the Montreal and Toronto areas respectively.

"The RCMP is alleging that Chiheb Esseghaier and Raed Jaser were conspiring to carry out an al-Qaeda-supported attack against a VIA passenger train," RCMP official James Malizia said.

"While the RCMP believed that these individuals had the capacity and intent to carry out these criminal acts, there was no imminent threat to the general public, rail employees, train passengers or infrastructure," the police said in a statement.

The police told a news conference the suspects "were receiving support from al-Qaeda elements located in Iran" but added "there's no indication that these attacks were state-sponsored".

The pair, who are not Canadian citizens, are expected to appear in court on Tuesday for a bail hearing, AFP news agency reported.

Charges include conspiring to carry out an attack and conspiring in association with a terrorist group to murder individuals.

Canadian police and intelligence agencies said the operation was conducted in co-ordination with the US Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

A US law enforcement source told Reuters news agency the alleged plot was not linked with last week's Boston Marathon bombings.

In 2006, Canadian authorities arrested at least 18 suspects reportedly linked to a terror plot, involving attacks on the parliament and a major broadcast company.

Source: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/04/2013422193533322659.html

Australian rock legend Chrissy Amphlett, best known as the singer of the Divinyls, has died in New York aged 53.

The charismatic frontwoman was surrounded by family and friends at her home when she died on Monday morning.

Her husband of 14 years, former Divinyls drummer Charley Drayton, says Amphlett died of breast cancer and multiple sclerosis.

In a statement released by ARIA, he added she had fought the diseases with "exceptional bravery and dignity".

"Chrissy's light burns so very brightly. Hers was a life of passion and creativity; she always lived it to the fullest," the statement said.

"With her force of character and vocal strength she paved the way for strong, sexy, outspoken women."

Christine Joy Amphlett was born in Geelong, Victoria, in 1959.

She gained fans for her energetic performances, complete with a signature outfit of a school uniform and fishnet stockings.

Amphlett revealed her fight against multiple sclerosis in 2007 and in 2010 announced she had breast cancer.

In March this year she shared an insight into her health troubles via her official Facebook page.

"Unfortunately the last 18 months have been a real challenge for me having breast cancer and MS and all the new places that will take you," she wrote.

"You become sadly a patient in a world of waiting rooms, waiting sometimes hours for a result or an appointment.

"You spend a lot time in cold machines... hospital beds, on your knees praying for miracles, operating rooms, tests after tests, looking at healthy people skip down the street like you once did and you took it all for granted and now wish you could do that.

"I have not stopped singing throughout all this in my dreams and to be once again performing and doing what I love to do."

Amphlett formed the Divinyls with Jeremy Paul after meeting guitarist Mark McEntee at the Sydney Opera House in the early 1980s.

"She was courageous, she was original, she was a great poet. She had an incredible voice that was instantly recognisable, and she was, underneath all that, delicate," McEntee said.

Despite an ever-changing line-up, the band released six albums between 1982 and 1996.

The 1991 single I Touch Myself market the group's highest point.

The song reached number one on Australian charts and also found success in the US and UK.

"Everybody has always seen it in one way, but I see the beauty of this song," Amphlett said of the song while speaking to Enough Rope host Andrew Denton in 2006.

"It's about both of those sides, our higher self and our lower self and our sexuality and everything."

Drayton says Amphlett hoped the song would also inspire women to a more serious task.

"Chrissy expressed hope that her worldwide hit I Touch Myself would remind women to perform annual breast examinations," he said in a statement.

"Chrissy was a true pioneer and a treasure to all whose lives her music and spirit touched."

Former partner and guitarist McEntee says Amphlett was an exceptional talent.

"Chrissy had a lot of the gusto, and the raw, the raw talent, and the ability to come up with something original and different," he said.

The Divinyls, also known for Boys in Town, Pleasure and Pain and Science Fiction, were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2006.

"It is with great sadness that we learn of the passing of the beloved Chrissy Amphlett, a true pioneer and inspiration to a generation of Australian musicians and music fans," ARIA said in a statement.

The band split in 2007 after a short tour.Andrew McManus managed the Divinyls for 11 years, and says Amplett had a dominating presence on stage.

"She was brilliant. As I said, she wasn't only a great singer, she was a great songwriter. I think people don't realise that," he said.

"On stage, people couldn't hold a candle to her. I remember when we did some of the big shows - festivals and what have you - no-one wanted to follow Chrissy Amphlett."

Along with singing, Amphlett acted for both the stage and screen and starred alongside Russell Crowe in the musical Blood Brothers in 1988.

Dear Chrissie, The last time I saw you was in the Botanic Gardens, loving life and reciting verse. That's how I'll remember you, your boy, R

— Russell Crowe (@russellcrowe) April 22, 2013

Midnight Oil frontman turned Labor politician Peter Garrett also paid tribute to Amphlett on Twitter.

Farewell to the finest of singers, great performer, a true star #chrissieamphlett

— Peter Garrett AM MP (@PGarrettMP) April 22, 2013

Music journalist Glen A Baker told ABC News 24 it was hard to come to terms with the death of someone "so ferociously larger than life".

"Pop music had trained us to expect that women in rock were kind of like accessories - pretty things in short skirts and winsome smiles," he said.

"We didn't really expect to see anyone who came on like a cavewoman. She was such a mighty singer, but she was innately so rock 'n' roll.

"Which is not to say that she wasn't, when you were with her and knew her, a delight.

"She knew what she was doing and she played it like all rock performers would do, with a certain theatricity."

Baker said Amphlett would be remembered as an absolute original.

"She wasn't trying to be anyone else," he said.

"She was an innate, natural rock performer and she'll be remembered for being so brave."


http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-22/divinyls-singer-chrissy-amphlett-dies/4644172

All 4 Sonic the hedgehog cartoons (Adventures of sonic the hedgehog, Sonic the hedgehog, sonic underground and sonic X) have taken off the air due to the boston marathon bombings and the fertilizer plant explosion in west, texas

These shows were also banned because of America's perception of the tsarnaev brothers, who, like sonic, manic and sonya from sonic underground, were freedom fighters, although sonic underground were fighting on the fictional planet of mobius, Whereas the tsarnaevs were fighting in chechnya, a real-life territory of russia that borders with Georgia.

Another reason was the episode Mass transit trouble from the first series, which featured villain doctor robotnik trying to blow up a light house, an airport and a train station. this epsode was also banned after the 9/11 attacks.



Edit: Parliament is in debate over the ban:watch it live here: http://www.reddit.com/r/answers/comments/1cqiyf/should_we_keep_watching_sonic_underground_xpost/

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has reportedly been apprehended following an extensive manhunt that ended in the Boston suburb, Watertown. Law enforcement units from around the country were involved in the search.

The crowd around the standoff scene in Watertown burst into cheers as it became clear that Tsarnaev had been taken into custody following reports that a negotiator was on site.He will be transported to Mount Auburn Hospital, the same facility where a police officer shot in a standoff with the Tsarnaevs is recovering, the Boston Globe reports.

Tsarnaev, 19, and his brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, are suspected of detonating two improvised explosives during the Boston Marathon on Monday, after which a manhunt began that lead to a shootout with law enforcement agents, a stolen car and finally Dzhokhar's hideout in a boat parked on a lawn in suburban Watertown.

The older Tsarnaev brother was pronounced dead by law enforcement early Friday, shortly after both men were named as suspects in Monday’s blast. Police believe the brothers reportedly shot and killed a police officer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), later identified as 26-year-old Sean Collier.

Panic soon erupted within the MIT community as dozens of police cruisers swarmed the campus to investigate the shooting. Moments later, police said that two suspects in the shooting carjacked an SUV and were spotted in the neighboring town of Watertown, MA.

Local and national law enforcement agencies in the United States — including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — descended on New England this week to help the Boston Police Department in their probe of the marathon tragedy, which US President Barack Obama declared in the aftermath as an act of terrorism. But despite receiving assistance from multiple branches of the Justice Department and agencies as far away as the NYPD and Israeli police, the FBI did not go public with any leads until Thursday afternoon.

At around 5pm Thursday, FBI Special Agent Richard DesLauriers presented the media with surveillance camera footage of two men — originally identified as only “Suspect One” and “Suspect Two” — and said they were believed responsible for Monday’s blast and should be considered armed and extremely dangerous.

As afternoon turned to evening, new photos taken by marathon witnesses quickly circulated of the suspects, and by sundown authorities connected the Tsarnaev brothers to a series of criminal activity committed in the Boston area, including the terrorist attack.

Across the world, eyes were focused on the greater Boston region into Friday morning as local news stations followed-up feverishly on what became an increasingly chaotic manhunt for both men. Police responded by shutting down much of the vicinity, ordering residents to stay inside with locked doors and urged to avoid interacting with anyone other than law enforcement. Transportation company Amtrak suspended rail service going in and out of both Boston and nearby Providence, Rhode Island, and local public services including rail, bus and taxi all stopped servicing the area.

In all, roughly one million residents in New England were told to stay indoors until the lockdown was lifted on Friday evening.

Authorities said that the brothers fired dozens of rounds at police, critically injuring another officer, during which Tamerlan Tsarnaev was injured. He was reportedly apprehended by police and later pronounced dead. According to some sources, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev fled the scene in a vehicle, riding over his brother’s body in the process.

As the police escalated their manhunt for the surviving Tsarnaev, authorities warned of multiple explosives on the scene across Watertown and called in a bomb squad to assist in the investigation.

However, The UBC's russian partner, RT spoke to tsarnaev’s parents who are adamant about their sons’ innocence, claiming it was a set up.

Zubeidat Tsarnaeva maintains her younger son is innocent and like so many of the brothers’ acquaintances, claims they were good, courteous kids and model students – especially the younger 19-year-old Dzhokhar, who is currently on the run. A US citizen who is presently in the Russian Republic of Dagestan, she revealed to RT some suspicions of her own.

Grief-stricken at the latest developments in the case, Zubeidat expressed her dismay at the allegations, recounting Dzhokhar’s life in the US and talking of his status among his peers and friends: he was an honors student, loved by many of his friends and teachers. And his older brother Tamerlan was a star athlete and student, whose ambition was to one day appear on the US Olympic wrestling team.

But her biggest suspicion surrounding the case was the constant FBI surveillance she said her family was subjected to over the years. She is surprised that having been so stringent with the entire family, the FBI had no idea the sons were supposedly planning a terrorist act.

“They used to come [to our] home, they used to talk to me…they were telling me that he [the older, 26-y/o Tamerlan] was really an extremist leader and that they were afraid of him. They told me whatever information he is getting, he gets from these extremist sites… they were controlling him, they were controlling his every step…and now they say that this is a terrorist act! Never ever is this true, my sons are innocent!”

When asked if maybe she didn’t know about some of her sons’ more secret aspirations and dark secrets, she said “That’s impossible. My sons would never keep a secret.”

Finally, she said that if she could speak to her youngest – Dzhokhar, she would tell him, “Save your life and tell the truth, that you haven’t done anything, that this is a set up!”

In an interview with Russian television the brothers’ father Anzor Tsarnaev also claimed that they are innocent and somebody might have set them up.

“I’m sure about my children, in their purity. I don’t know what happened and who did this. God knows and he will punish them,” he told Zvezda channel. “Somebody might have set them up. I don’t know who and because of their cowardice killed the boy.”

The father said he was unable to contact his sons or other relatives. “Everything is switched off. I can’t reach my brother there either. I can’t reach anyone! I just want information. Now I fear for my boy, that they will now shoot him dead and then will say 'He had a gun'.”

“I fear for my son, for his life. They should arrest him, bring him, but alive. Justice should investigate who is right and who is wrong,” he said.

Mr Tsarnaev recently spoke to his elder son, Tamerlan [Suspect #1], telling him that he should take care of his younger brother. Speaking of the Boston marathon bombing he told his son “Ok, Thanks to Allah you were not close to there and did not suffer.”

“I remember I even asked “Who could do something like that?”

“We just talked. I asked him about our Dzhokhar [Suspect #2], how was he. I told him, he should help him out and keep an eye on him, so that he studies well. I told him ‘You left school, got married too early, but the kid should finish [his education]’. Because this is life – those who don’t study work a lot and work hard. That’s why I was telling them study”.

Highly popular social networking site Reddit was down for some time earlier this evening. As of right now, a message at the top of most pages say: Site availability is being impacted by a malicious DDoS attack. Please stay tuned.

We will keep you updated as the attack continues.

The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings led police on a wild and deadly chase through the suburbs here early Friday morning that ended in the death of one of the suspects as well as a campus police officer; the other suspect remained at large while hundreds of police officers conduct a manhunt through Watertown, about five miles west of downtown Boston.

The surviving suspect was identified as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge, Mass., a law enforcement official said. The suspect who was killed was identified as his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, the law enforcement official said. Investigators believe that both of the suspects were Chechens.

The Boston region was in the grip of a security emergency as hundreds of police officers conducted a manhunt through the normally tranquil Boston suburbs.

Gov. Deval Patrick has suspended service on all public transit services in the M.B.T.A. system in Boston, including the “T” subway, buses and commuter trains. The authorities asked all residents of the towns of Watertown, Newton, Waltham and Cambridge to stay home and stay indoors. Watertown was locked down early Friday morning, with no one allowed to leave their homes and no businesses allowed to open.

Several area colleges announced the cancellation of classes on Friday, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard, Boston University, Boston College, Emerson College, Northeastern University and Suffolk University.

“This situation is grave, we are here to protect public safety,” said Col. Tim Alben of the Massachusetts State Police.

“We believe these are the same individuals that were responsible for the bombing on Monday at the Boston Marathon,” Colonel Alben said. “We believe that they’re responsible for the death of an M.I.T. police officer and the shooting of an M.B.T.A. officer.”

In the course of the chase, the suspects shot and killed a campus police officer at M.I.T. and severely wounded a transit police officer, police said. The authorities were investigating whether the suspect who was killed had an improvised explosive device strapped to his body, two law enforcement officials said.

Edward Davis, the Boston police commissioner, told reporters early Friday morning that the two men involved in the chase were the suspects identified Thursday by the F.B.I. as responsible for setting the explosives at Monday’s marathon that killed three people and injured more than 170 others.

He also said that one of the suspects, wearing the black hat in the F.B.I. photos, was dead and that the other suspect, in the white hat, was still on the loose.

Early Friday, a virtual army of heavily armed law enforcement officers was still going through houses in Watertown one by one in a search for the second suspect. Police had blocked off a 20-block residential area and urged residents emphatically to stay inside their homes and not answer their doors.

“We are concerned about securing that area and making sure that this individual is taken into custody,” Mr. Davis said. “We believe this to be a terrorist. We believe this to be a man who’s come here to kill people, and we need to get him in custody.”

With gunfire ricocheting around the tranquil neighborhood, residents were later told to go into their basements and stay away from windows.

The pursuit began after 10 p.m. Thursday when two men robbed a 7/11 near Central Square in Cambridge. A security camera caught a man identified as one of the suspects, wearing a gray hoodie.

About 10:30 p.m., police received reports that a campus security officer at M.I.T. was shot while he sat in his police cruiser. He was found with multiple gunshot wounds, according to a statement issued by the Middlesex acting district attorney, Michael Pelgro; the Cambridge police commissioner, Robert Haas; and the M.I.T. police chief, John DiFava. The officer was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

A short time later, police received reports of an armed carjacking of a Mercedes S.U.V. by two men in the area of Third Street in Cambridge, the statement said. “The victim was carjacked at gunpoint by two males and was kept in the car with the suspects for approximately a half hour,” the statement said. He was later released, uninjured, at a gas station on Memorial Drive in Cambridge.

Police immediately began to search for the vehicle and pursued it into Watertown. During the chase, “explosive devices were reportedly thrown from car by the suspects,” the statement said, and the suspects and police exchanged gunfire in the area of Dexter and Laurel streets.

A Watertown resident, Andrew Kitzenberg, 29, said he looked out his third-floor window to see two young men of slight build in jackets engaged in “constant gunfire” with police officers. A police S.U.V. “drove towards the shooters,” he said, and was shot at until it was severely damaged. It rolled out of control, Mr. Kitzenberg said, and crashed into two cars in his driveway.

The two shooters, he said, had a large, unwieldy bomb that he said looked “like a pressure cooker.”

“They lit it, still in the middle of the gunfire, and threw it. But it went 20 yards at most.” It exploded, he said, and Tamerlan Tsarnaev ran toward the gathered police officers. He was tackled, but it was not clear if he was shot, Mr. Kitzenberg said.

The explosions, said another resident, Loretta Kehayias, 65, “lit up the whole house. I screamed. I’ve never seen anything like this, never, never, never.”

Meanwhile, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, said Mr. Kitzenberg, got back into the S.U.V., turned it toward officers and “put the pedal to the metal.” The car “went right through the cops, broke right through and continued west.”

The two men left “a few backpacks right by the car, and there is a bomb robot out there now.” Police had told residents to stay away from their windows, he said.

During this exchange, an M.B.T.A. police officer was seriously injured and taken to the hospital.

At the same time, Tamerlan Tsarnaev was critically injured with multiple gunshot wounds and taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston, where he was pronounced dead at 1:35 a.m.

A doctor who works at Beth Israel, and who lived in the area of the chase and shoot-out, said he was working at home around 1 a.m. when he heard the wailing sirens. He said at a news conference at Beth Israel that he recognized that something was wrong and alerted his emergency room to prepare for something.


Katharine Q. Seelye reported from Boston, and Michael Cooper from New York. Richard A. Oppel Jr, Jess Bidgood, Serge F. Kovaleski and John Eligon contributed reporting from Boston, and William K. Rashbaum and Ravi Somaiya from New York.

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: April 19, 2013


An earlier version misspelled the name of a resident who described the police activity in Watertown, Mass. He is Andrew Kitzenberg, not Kitzenburg.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/20/us/boston-marathon-bombings.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

A suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings was taken into custody Wednesday in a breakthrough that came less than 48 hours after the deadly attack, a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation said Wednesday.

The official spoke shortly after several media outlets reported that a suspect had been identified from surveillance video taken at a Lord & Taylor store between the sites of the two bomb blasts, which killed three people and wounded more than 170.

The official was not authorized to divulge details of the investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The suspect was expected at a Boston courthouse, the official said.

A news briefing was scheduled later Wednesday.

Law enforcement agencies had earlier pleaded for the public to come forward with photos, videos or any information that might help them solve the twin bombings.

Investigators circulated information about the bombs, which involved kitchen pressure cookers packed with explosives, nails and other lethal shrapnel. But the FBI said nobody had claimed responsibility.

A person close to the investigation had previously told AP the bombs consisted of explosives put in 1.6-gallon pressure cookers, one with shards of metal and ball bearings, the other with nails.

Investigators in white jumpsuits had fanned out across the streets, rooftops and awnings around the blast site in search of clues on Wednesday. They combed through debris amid the toppled orange sports drink dispensers, trash cans and sleeves of plastic cups strewn across the street at the marathon's finish line.

President Barack Obama branded the attack an act of terrorism. Obama plans to attend an interfaith service Thursday in the victims' honor in Boston.

Scores of victims of the Boston bombing remained in hospitals, many with grievous injuries. Doctors who treated the wounded corroborated reports that the bombs were packed with shrapnel intended to cause mayhem. In addition to the 5-year-old child, a 9-year-old girl and 10-year-old boy were among 17 victims listed in critical condition.

The trauma surgery chief at Boston Medical Center says most of the injuries his hospital treated after the marathon bombings were to the legs.

"We have a lot of lower extremity injuries, so I think the damage was low to the ground and wasn't up," Dr. Peter Burke said. "The patients who do have head injuries were blown into things or were hit by fragments that went up."

Dozens of patients have been released from hospitals around the Boston area.

At Massachusetts General Hospital, all four amputations performed there were above the knee, with no hope of saving more of the legs, said Dr. George Velmahos, chief of trauma surgery.

"It wasn't a hard decision to make," he said Tuesday. "We just completed the ugly job that the bomb did."

The bombs exploded 10 or more seconds apart, tearing off victims' limbs and spattering streets with blood. The blasts near the finish line instantly turned the festive race into a hellish scene of confusion, horror and heroics.

The blasts killed 8-year-old Martin Richard, of Boston, and 29-year-old Krystle Campbell, of Medford. The Shenyang Evening News, a state-run Chinese newspaper, identified the third victim as Lu Lingzi. She was a graduate student at Boston University.

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Associated Press writers Jay Lindsay, Pat Eaton-Robb, Steve LeBlanc, Bridget Murphy, Rodrique Ngowi and Meghan Barr in Boston; Eileen Sullivan, Julie Pace and Lara Jakes in Washington; Paisley Dodds in London; Lee Keath in Cairo; and Marilynn Marchione in Milwaukee contributed to this report along with investigative researcher Randy Herschaft in New York.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/official-boston-marathon-bomb-suspect-custody-181115672--spt.html