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There is a code upheld by members of Sicilian mobsters called omerta. It is considered a code of honor, of value, of principal. It is the "code of silence" that means that members do not give evidence to authorities or rivals about the activities of the organization. When an organization is brought down by police there is a good chance that there was a snitch involved. Omerta was broken.

The FBI arrested five members of hacker groups LulzSec and Anonymous today for various computer crimes associated with the year long battle the groups have waged against corporations and governments across the world. The most recent and damaging was the hack of U.S. intelligence contractor Stratfor in December.

One of the leaders of the movement went by the name of Sabu. His real name, according to a Fox News report, is Hector Xavier Monsegur from New York City. Sabu has been a rogue member of the group, disagreeing with other members of Anonymous and being one of the most vocal advocates of chaos.

It has been difficult to tell who and what Anonymous was. As the group grew and evolved it became extremely fractured. Anybody could lob a denial of service attack at some major corporation and claim and hacks against anybody that wronged the group. Sabu is also a traitor and a hypocrite. For all his bravado, he had been working with the FBI for months to implicate other members of the group. Knowing that, see his tweets from the last week below. Caution, strong language.

Alleged members of Anonymous arrested. In December of last year, three Dutch teenagers were arrested; in January of this year, British police arrested five alleged members of the hacking collective; another British teen was arrested in June; and now, in the U.S., the Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested 16 people across the country and served 35 search warrants in the course of a series of raids. Those arrests were followed up by that of "Topiary," an alleged Anonymous spokesperson with connection to LulzSec, at his home in Scotland's Shetland Islands.

Those arrested have been charged with conspiracy, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, and with intentional damage to a protected computer, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.

Brazilian blogger murdered. 36-year-old Brazilian blogger Ednaldo Figueira was shot down in the streets of his home town, Serra do Mel.

After receiving death threats, Figueira was shot six times on June 15 by gunmen on motorcycles outside his workplace. In addition to being a blogger, he was a newspaper editor and an official in a trade union. This is the second time a blogger has been murdered by his government or, in Figueira's case most likely organized crime figures attached to the government.

After almost two months of hacking like mad, LulzSec is apparently disbanding. They declared on their Twitter account that they had dumped a wad of unreleased materials and a goodbye statement on Pastebin. In a rant that might have been composed by cutting up the diaries of 100 college sophomores, they said:

"Our planned 50 day cruise has expired, and we must now sail into the distance, leaving behind - we hope - inspiration, fear, denial, happiness, approval, disapproval, mockery, embarrassment, thoughtfulness, jealousy, hate, even love."

The Department of Homeland Security will release a new guidance document today intended to make the software that runs the Web less susceptible to malicious hacks.

DHS has teamed with security and technology experts at the SANS Institute and Mitre to create a list of the top 25 programming errors that lead to the most serious hacks, according to The New York Times. The idea is to educate companies and organizations about the channels that criminal hackers use to gain access to confidential information and servers. These are often common software errors that can lead to "zero day" exploits.

The Lulz keep on coming.

Ryan Cleary, the 19-year-old alleged criminal hacker arrested in Britain yesterday, has formally been charged with offenses under the United Kingdom's Criminal Law Act and Computer Misuse Act. The accusations are for a purported Distributed Denial of Service attack against the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) along with several industry groups. In other News Of The Lulz, the group apparently now has a Brazilian arm that has taken down two government websites, according to PCMag.

A hacker in Britian was arrested this week. Some have suggested an association with LulzSec, the group that has, among other things, hacked the Senate and C.I.A. sites.

LulzSec is not claiming the suspect as one of its own. In a tweet, LulzSec wrote, "Seems the glorious leader of LulzSec got arrested, it's all over now... wait... we're all still here! Which poor bastard did they take down?"

New Scotland Yard has caught a black hat hacker believed to be of the Lulz Security hacker group, or so it thought. The British law enforcement agency is reporting that a 19-year-old male has been arrested in Essex, England by the "e-Crime" unit following an investigation into network intrusions and distributed denial of service attacks.

LulzSec is not claiming the suspect as one of its own. In a tweet, LulzSec wrote, "Seems the glorious leader of LulzSec got arrested, it's all over now... wait... we're all still here! Which poor bastard did they take down?"

Criminal and black hat hackers beware - If the U.S. government finds you, it is not going to be lenient.

The stakes are rising in the world of cybersecurity and the Obama administration is not taking it lightly. The White House has proposed to congress an increase in maximum jail time for criminal hackers whose acts are "potentially endangering national security" from 10 to 20 years, according to Reuters. With Anonymous and Lulz Security bouncing around hacking seemingly anything they want, the government is pounding its gavel with one of only powerful rhetorical messages - sticking criminals in the deepest, darkest dungeon for as long as possible.

CIA.gov, the public website of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, seems to be down for some people. Some ReadWriteWeb writers could not get it to load, though some could.

LulzSec, the group who prosecuted an attack against the U.S. Senate website are taking responsibility.