She has received death threats and her website was attacked by hacking collective Anonymous.

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Ryan Cleary, 19, of Wickford, Essex, was charged last month with five offences under the Criminal Law and Computer Misuse Acts, including an alleged hacking attack against Soca's website.

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Mrs Gower said she was concerned because the style of the email was similar to that used by Muslim hacking groups who had previously attacked the EDL website.

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Anonymous, the controversial hacking collective, has a new venture - a website for crowdsourced news.

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An American member of hacking group Lulzsec has admitted attacking the Sony Pictures website.

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Traditionally, adopting the security measures that prevent the easy hacking that Firesheep can do has been deemed too costly by website operators.

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Images posted to a Pastebin page suggest the hacking group accessed some sites by attacking the databases many companies use to catalogue and curate website content.

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Earlier this week members of LulzSec and the larger hacker group Anonymous defaced the website of the News Corp-owned paper The Sun in retaliation for the phone-hacking and cover up that took place at its sister paper, the now-defunct News Of The World.

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