Jake Davis named as suspected hacker Topiary by UK police

British police have tonight named the teenager they arrested in Shetland last week, in relation to the LulzSec and Anonymous hacking groups.

Jake Davis, 18, will appear in court on Monday charged with five offences including unauthorised computer access and conspiracy to carry out a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack against the SOCA website.

(SOCA is the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency – the very group that investigates serious cybercrime in Great Britain. You can just imagine how they must have felt when cybercriminals launched an attack against their website which made it inaccessible).

Here is the full list of the charges against Jake Davis…

Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.

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