F-Secure chief research officer Mikko Hypponen says Sony has long history of “going after legitimate innovation and hobbyists” The attention-seeking nature of Anonymous and LulzSec means that these “noisy, splashy hackers” days’ may be numbered. The FBI said it had arrested 14 individuals thought to belong to the Anonymous hacking group for their alleged participation in a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) against PayPal last year. The arrests have prompted greater co-operation between the two hacking groups.”]

