Anonymous

Virgin Media was hit by a DDoS attack this week, which was apparent payback for blocking The Pirate Bay.

If Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues was rewritten now, it would go: "I'm on the laptop takin' down the government."

Anonymous says it is behind an attack which brought down the government's official Home Office website this weekend.

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Now that's what we call brazen

Anonymous has reportedly launched DDoS attacks on a host of major websites after file-sharing sites Megaupload and Megavideo were taken down

The hacking group known as Anonymous has claimed responsibility for shutting down a website used to share pictures of child abuse.

Some members of Anonymous have announced their intention to 'kill Facebook' on 5 November.