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Shares in Kesa Electricals were up on the FTSE 250 in morning trading despite the group reporting a strong drop in pre-tax profits in the full year ended 30 April.

The hacker collective LulzSec has posted the names, addresses of two hackers suspected of leaking its chat logs.

Before its public announcement, Australia's Qantas Airways halted the trading of its shares in the Australia Stock Exchange (ASX: QAN).

Contrary to earlier comments by consulting firm Hit Detection, a new interview from Nintendo producer Shigeru Miyamoto has indicated that the Wii's graphics will most likely be no better than those of the current generation Xbox 360 and PS3 consoles.

London's Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit has arrested a 19-year-old man suspected of involvement in LulzSec's recent distributed denial of service attack on the Serious Organised Crimes Agency's website.

Shares in SABMiller were down on the FTSE 100 in morning trading after Australian rival Fosters rejected a takeover offer made by the group.

New laws that make bankers legally obligated to alert customers of any cyber security breaches on their firms networks have coincided with LulzSec and Anonymous declaration of war against the world's governments and banks.

Shares in British banks were broadly up on the FTSE 100 in morning trading despite the ongoing crisis that is engulfing Greece.

A recent interview with Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto has revealed that concerns about the Wii U's cost may mean that the console will only be slightly more powerful than the current-generation Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles.

Shares in Whitbread were up on the FTSE 100 in morning trading after the group reported a rise in sales in the 13 weeks ended 2 June.

Operation Anti-Security, the hacking collectives LulzSec and Anonymous joint campaign against the world's banks and governments, began today as LulzSec tweeted that it had already hacked numerous targets and was set to release the information later today.

The hacker collectives LulzSec and Anonymous this weekend announced a new combined campaign against the world's governments codenamed Operation Anti-Security, quashing earlier reports that the two were on the brink of war with each other.

After being hit by an alleged computer virus that allowed 30,000 "sub-par" individuals to access its pretty-people-only service, BeautifulPeople.com's managing director Greg Hodge has issued an apology to those wrongly granted access to the site.

The "exclusively for beautiful people" dating site BeautifulPeople.com has reported a hack on its site that allowed as many as 30,000 "less than pretty" candidates to join it.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has voted to allow the creation new website domain suffixes.

As news about the latest cyber security breach on Sega unfolds, it has been revealed that in the attack hackers were able to bypass new security measures put in place by the company after Sony's PlayStation Network outage.

In a statement to IGN Crytek games has denied that it is currently developing titles for Microsoft's next-generation Xbox 720 console.

Shares in JD Sports Fashion were up on the FTSE 250 in morning trading after the group announced the acquisition of Sprinter Businesses in Spain and eight Cecil Gee stores in Britain.

Shares in British banks were down on the FTSE 100 in morning trading as an agreement on Greek debt continued to prove elusive.

After games industry titan Sega last week revealed that a recent cyber attack on its network left 1.29 million of its customers personal data compromised, the hacker collective LulzSec has promised to "destroy" those responsible for the hack.

Sega has confirmed that in a recent cyber attack on its systems, hackers were able to steal the personal data of 1.29 million Sega customers.

Shares in Rexam were down on the FTSE 100 in morning trading after the packaging company announced the sale of its Closures business to Berry Plastics for $360 million.

The Serious Organised Crime Agency, has revealed further details about the SpyEye Trojan computer virus currently believed to have infected up to 1,500 broadband customers computers.

A report from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has revealed that Software systems used by China to run its weapons, utilities and chemical plants systems suffer from an inherent bug, leaving them vulnerable to hacker's cyber attacks.

A video posted earlier this week has revealed the origin of the now notorious hacking collectives LulzSec and Anonymous.

Nearly 1500 Virgin Media internet customers computers have been warned that their PCs may have been infected with a malicious computer virus.

Budget airline easyJet has again warned that coalition Government's plan to raise Air Passenger Duty (APD) and incentivise long haul travel will damage the environment and cost up to 77,000 jobs.

Shares in British banks were down on the FTSE 100 in morning trading as troubles in Greece continued to loom over the market.

Shares in Cairn Energy were down on the FTSE 100 in morning trading after the group yesterday announced the appointment of a new CEO.