/spandiv style="float:right;width:305px;display:inline;font-size:13px;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;line-height:16px;" img src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/53688000/jpg/_53688845_012283915-1.jpg" width="304" height="171" alt="Ryan Cleary"span style="width:304px;"Mr Cleary was said to be highly intelligent/span /div div class="story-feature related narrow"Related Stories/div p class="introduction" id="story_continues_1"A 19-year-old charged with hacking the website of the UK Serious Organised Crime Agency has been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a court has heard./p pRyan Cleary, from Wickford, Essex, was arrested as part of a Scotland Yard and FBI probe into online hacking group LulzSec./p pHis counsel told City of Westminster Magistrates' Court he suffers from the form of autism, along with agoraphobia./p pHe was granted bail, but remains in custody after prosecutors objected./p pBen Cooper, defending Mr Cleary, said he was concerned the alleged hacker would have to remain in custody over the weekend./p pThe court was told he is of high intelligence but has difficulty interacting with other people./p pBut prosecutors refused to reconsider their bail appeal./p pMr Cleary is alleged to have set up a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack on the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) on 20 June./p pA DDOS attack typically involves flooding a target website with data, in an attempt to overwhelm it so it cannot serve its legitimate users./ppHe has been accused of attacking the website of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry in November 2010./p pAnd Mr Cleary also allegedly attacked the British Phonographic Industry's website in October./p pHe was charged under the Criminal Law Act and Computer Misuse Act by the Met Police's e-crime unit./p div style="float:right;width:305px;display:inline;font-size:13px;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;line-height:16px;" img src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/53688000/jpg/_53688849_53688848.jpg" width="304" height="171" alt="Home of Ryan Cleary"span style="width:304px;"The alleged offences were carried out from this house in Essex/span /div pThe charges against Mr Cleary include conspiring with other unknown people on or before 20 June to construct a botnet - a collection of hijacked home computers - to conduct distributed denial of service attacks./p pHe is also charged with making, adapting, supplying or offering to supply a botnet, intending that it should be used to commit, or to assist in the commission of a distributed denial of service attack./p pThe bail appeal will go to a Plea and Case Management Hearing at Southwark Crown Court on 30 August./p pIf Mr Cleary wins bail he will be banned from having any possession which can access the internet./p pNo internet access will be allowed at his home, which he will be prohibited from leaving without his mother, Rita Cleary./p pMr Cleary has not entered a plea to any of the charges./ppThis article is from the a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk" title="Link to BBC News"BBC News website/a. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/69QXQFNqycVkIvSTFYJhLxVw5fs/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/69QXQFNqycVkIvSTFYJhLxVw5fs/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/69QXQFNqycVkIvSTFYJhLxVw5fs/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/69QXQFNqycVkIvSTFYJhLxVw5fs/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BbcNewsTechnologyFullFeed/~4/2uA1sHdmE6U" height="1" width="1"/