UK police make fifth arrest in TalkTalk hack inquiry

An 18-year-old youth from Wales who was detained on Tuesday in the fifth arrest connected to a cyber attack on telecoms company TalkTalk was bailed on Wednesday pending further investigations, police said in a statement. Police searched an address in the town of Llanelli on Tuesday and took the youth into custody on suspicion of blackmail. TalkTalk said on Oct

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Black Oregon college student assaulted by three white men: police

The assault of a black Oregon college student by three white men is being investigated by a police hate crime unit and comes days after Portland police received reports of racist threats on social media, authorities said on Monday.

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Internet outage seen in North Korea amid U.S. hacking dispute

By Lesley Wroughton and Megha Rajagopalan WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) – North Korea, at the center of a confrontation with the United States over the hacking of Sony pictures, itself experienced Internet outages on Monday, a U.S. company that monitors Internet infrastructure said. New Hampshire-based Dyn Research said the reason for the disruptions was not known but could range from technological glitches to a hacking attack.

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