Anonymous Launches Investigative Research Branch

Staff / Truthdig Oct 2, 2011 The hacker collective Anonymous launched a division devoted to investigative reporting last month, marking a departure from the group's traditional practice of exposing corporations through hacking attacks. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Author and Academic Comments on Wall Street Protests

Staff / Truthdig Sep 19, 2011 Protesters continued to occupy Manhattan's financial district Monday. "Democracy Now!" has footage of the demonstration and interviews with activists, including a conversation with distinguished anthropologist, author and protest-goer David Graeber. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Anti-Corporate Protesters Demonstrate on Wall Street

Staff / Truthdig Sep 19, 2011 Hundreds of people remained gathered in New York's financial district Sunday as part of the Occupy Wall Street demonstration called for by Adbusters, Anonymous and other anti-corporate groups. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

FCC to Investigate BART for Cutting Cell Service

Staff / Truthdig Aug 16, 2011 The Federal Communications Commission said Monday that it will investigate San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit because of its decision to interrupt cellphone service on Aug. 11 before a protest planned for that day. The interruption lasted three hours. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Hackers Take Aim at San Francisco Transit

Staff / Truthdig Aug 14, 2011 The hacker group Anonymous threatened to target the San Francisco Bay Area's transit website after officials cut the system's underground cellphone service to prevent a protest last week. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Anonymous Is Going to Try to Kill Facebook (Video)

Staff / Truthdig Aug 10, 2011 Remember, remember the fifth of November 2011. That's the day hactivist collective Anonymous plans to "kill" the second-busiest website on the Internet "for the sake of your own privacy." In a video message, Anonymous warns that "you are not safe from them [Facebook] nor from any government" to which the social networking website feeds information. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Anonymous Strikes U.S. Law Enforcement Sites

Staff / Truthdig Aug 7, 2011 The hacking group Anonymous took credit Saturday for the theft of a cache of data from rural American law enforcement websites in retaliation for arrests of associates and sympathizers in the United States and Britain. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Prison Doors Vulnerable to Hacking, Researchers Say

Staff / Truthdig Aug 2, 2011 The same devices that enabled hackers to sabotage centrifuges at an Iranian nuclear plant last year are being used to control access to jail cells in some of the United States' most important high-security prisons. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Difference Between Hacking and Attacking

Staff / Truthdig Aug 1, 2011 In this age of terrorism and anxiety, we sometimes let loose a little too freely with loaded words like "attack." Take the case of LulzSec, the humorous hacker collective that brought down the CIA's World Factbook, penetrated PBS and resurrected Tupac. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Alleged Anonymous Hackers Are Busted

Staff / Truthdig Jul 20, 2011 Federal agents nabbed 14 people across the country Tuesday in connection with alleged attacks by the hacker group Anonymous against the websites of numerous corporations, in what looks to be the largest such roundup ever on U.S. soil. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Anonymous Declares War on Orlando

Staff / Truthdig Jun 29, 2011 The city of Orlando, Fla., home to amusement parks, fancy houses and an underachieving basketball team, has been arresting people for feeding the homeless without a permit. This got the attention of the hacker collective Anonymous, which has threatened to shut down a different Orlando-themed website every day. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Hacktivist Outfit LulzSec Says Bon Voyage

Staff / Truthdig Jun 26, 2011 Lulz Security is no more The humorous hackers who attacked targets including PBS and the CIA released a statement announcing that "Our planned 50 day cruise has expired, and we must now sail into the distance " (more). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )