Julian Assange

Report Claims Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Secretly Indicted In U.S.

Ryan J. Reilly | February 28, 2012, 10:50AM

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange holds a press conference at the Frontline club in London, UK on February 27, 2012. Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has started to publish more than five million confidential emails from a global intelligence company. The emails, dated from July 2004 and late December 2011, are said to reveal the inner workings of US-based company Stratfor. Photo by Lewis Whyld/PA Wire/ABACAPRESS.COM # 310628_001

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was secretly indicted by federal prosecutors in the U.S., according to an email from private intelligence company Stratfor obtained by the hacking group Anonymous and published by Wikileaks this week.

"Not for Pub -- We have a sealed indictment on Assange. Pls protect," Stratfor official Fred Burton wrote in a Jan. 26, 2011 email to colleagues at the company. It was one of over 5 million emails obtained from Stratfor's servers. It was sent in reply to an email message from another Stratfor official linking to a CBS article about Assange.

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Louisiana

Florida Family Association: 'Anonymous' Hacked Us Over Lowe's Campaign

Jillian Rayfield | December 13, 2011, 10:08AM

The Florida Family Association is blaming Anonymous for taking down its website after the social conservative group pressured Lowe's to pull its advertising from the TV show All-American Muslim.

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Michael Bloomberg

Bloomberg: Occupy Wall Street Is Targeting People 'Struggling To Make Ends Meet'

Jillian Rayfield | October 3, 2011, 12:41PM

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg

New York City's billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg thinks the Occupy Wall Street protesters shouldn't be fighting Wall Street, because most of those people are "struggling to make ends meet."

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Anonymous

Pepper Spraying Cop Was Named In Civil Rights Complaints For 2004 Anti-Bush Protests

Jillian Rayfield | September 27, 2011, 1:41PM

Anthony Bologna, the NYPD officer who maced a protester at the Occupy Wall Street rally, was named in several civil rights lawsuits related to arrests made at the 2004 Republican National Convention.

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Joshua John Covelli

Feds: Homeless Computer Hacker Launched 'Anonymous' Attack Over Anti-Camping Law

Ryan J. Reilly | September 22, 2011, 6:55PM

A homeless man upset over an anti-camping law in Santa Cruz took part in a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the city's computer servers last December, the feds charged Thursday.

As we told you earlier today, the feds arrested two men for hacking attacks today: an Arizona 23-year-old who allegedly hacked into Sony's servers and a California man who Fox News reported is homeless.

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Anonymous

TPM Attacked After Posting Mugshots Of Alleged 'Anonymous' Members

Ryan J. Reilly | September 9, 2011, 8:53PM

Hackers launched a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack on TPM on Friday, knocking the site off-line. TPM had posted mugshots of 14 individuals the FBI said are connected to the 'hactivist' group Anonymous earlier in the day.

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Anonymous

Anonymous Unmasked: Mugshots Of Alleged Members Of The 'Hacktivist' Group

Ryan J. Reilly | September 9, 2011, 9:52AM

Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request, TPM has obtained mugshots of the individuals the feds arrested back in July for their alleged involvement in the 'hacktivist' group Anonymous.

The group includes college students, cashiers, and a landscaper. Check out their mugshots here.

Tea Party Nation

Tea Party Nation: 'Anonymous' Attacked Us With Porn

Jillian Rayfield | March 15, 2011, 11:08AM

Founder of Tea Party Nation Judson Phillips

Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips is claiming that the hacker collective 'Anonymous' is attacking the Tea Party Nation website by getting supporters to pose as Tea Party members and post racist pictures and porn.

'Anonymous', however, has seemingly not taken credit for the attack, nor is there much evidence the attack came from them.

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