Yahoo! News: Brazil

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• Cyber attack jams Brazilian presidency's website (AP)
• Brazil grants residence to Italian ex-militant (AFP)
• Brazil police say man used poodle to hit wife (AP)
• News of the world: Majority want U.S. troops home from Afghanistan, China releases Ai Weiwei, Lulz strikes Brazil (The Envoy)
• LulzSec Hits Brazilian Government, Unleashes Nerd Rage (The Atlantic Wire)

Cyber attack jams Brazilian presidency's website (AP) Posted: 22 Jun 2011 02:50 PM PDT AP - A cyber attack blocked traffic to the website of the Brazilian presidency and two other government sites on Wednesday, authorities said.

Brazil grants residence to Italian ex-militant (AFP) Posted: 22 Jun 2011 02:33 PM PDT AFP - Brazil issued a residence permit Wednesday to a freed Italian ex-militant, officials said, two weeks after the Supreme Court sparked a row with Rome by turning down its extradition request.

Brazil police say man used poodle to hit wife (AP) Posted: 22 Jun 2011 10:48 AM PDT AP - Police in southern Brazil say a jealous husband hit his wife in the head with a pet poodle.

News of the world: Majority want U.S. troops home from Afghanistan, China releases Ai Weiwei, Lulz strikes Brazil (The Envoy) Posted: 22 Jun 2011 09:23 AM PDT The Envoy - • A record number of Americans (56 percent) now favor removing U.S. troops from Afghanistan. (Pew) • The cost of war is a major factor as U.S. weighs Afghanistan troop levels. (New York Times) • Few Taliban agree so far to switch sides. (New York Times) • Obama to propose Chicago host a NATO summit [...]

LulzSec Hits Brazilian Government, Unleashes Nerd Rage (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 22 Jun 2011 06:42 AM PDT The Atlantic Wire - The online pranksters at Lulz Security say they've taken down two government Web sites in Brazil as they continue with their global "Anti-Security" campaign. Both brazil.gov.br and presidencia.gov.br are unresponsive this morning, and the hactivist group has claimed responsibility on its Twitter feed. The group, which has attacked Web sites of PBS, Sony, the U.S. Senate, the Central Intelligence Agency, the U.K.'s Serious Organized Crima Agency, and myriad online gaming services, announced last week that it had a more serious agenda than simply the "lulz," or online laughs, that it had earlier claimed to be working for. It said it was out to demonstrate security flaws in government and corporate sites, and on Monday, it launched AntiSec, calling on other hackers to join in exposing said flaws.

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