A man was arrested last night in connection with LulzSec and Anonymous-led attacks.

According to Reuters, Cody Kretsinger was arrested in Arizona on Thursday on a charge of attacking Sony Pictures Entertainment’s website. He was charged with conspiracy and the unauthorised impairment of a protected computer using an SQL injection attack against the site.

Kretsinger, who used the name ‘Recursion’, is accused of helping to post on the LulzSec website the confidential records of people who had entered contests promoted by Sony, and announcing the intrusion via its Twitter account. The records of 150,000 people included their names, birth dates, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and passwords.

Kretsinger faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison if convicted.

According to The Register, two other men have been arrested on a charge of participating in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on websites belonging to the County of Santa Cruz.

According to an indictment filed in the federal court in San Jose, Christoper Doyon and Joshua John Covelli carried out the attacks in retribution for the enforcement of a law prohibiting overnight camping within the Santa Cruz city limits.

Both men were allegedly members of the People’s Liberation Front, an Anonymous splinter group, and allegedly used the High Orbit Ion Cannon to bombard the Santa Cruz County servers. Covelli was one of 13 people previously charged with participating in the Anonymous-organised DDoS against PayPal in December.

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Business has seen a sizeable shift to remote working over the last 12 months, research has shown.

Online business marketplace, PeoplePerHour.com reports a 68% increase in the number of UK businesses hiring remote workers in the past year, according to a study of more than 45,000 companies.

71 percent of respondents cite flexibility and cost savings for employing non-office based staff. Businesses claim they are saving 23 percent on staff costs due to this shift.

The review find that the move to remote working is not a temporary fad caused by recession and rising costs but a step-change in business practice with many businesses definitely planning to continue to use freelancers next year. Some 91 percent of respondents report the quality of work done by remote workers is as good or better than full-time, office-based staff.

Almost half of the businesses reveal that the lasting benefit to their business of the recession is learning how to harness technology and the web to cut costs. As a result of these changes, British business is seeing improvements in productivity and quality of work.