SOCA website brought down by cyber criminals (UPDATED)

Stuart Sumner
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Crime agency's website taken offline by DDoS attack

The website of the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) has been brought down by cyber criminals executing a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. This is the second time in under 1...

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