Occupy Wall Street

'Invade Wall Street': Occupy Wall Street's Evil (And Probably Fake) Twin

By Rosie Gray Tue., Oct. 4 2011 at 12:01 PM
Categories: Anonymous, Occupy Wall Street, Protest, Rosie Gray

Occupy Wall Street is in its 18th day. Things are picking up steam a bit: the protesters have a big rally with the Transport Workers Union planned for tomorrow and they've also teamed up with a fancy PR firm, though they deny that they asked for any professional help with their media relations. But now Anonymous is messing with the game plan, as it's wont to do (not that there's necessarily a real game plan here). "Invade Wall Street" is a planned DDoS attack on the New York Stock Exchange. Sounds pretty typical, except Anonymous is denying that it's involved. Or is it? Here we go again.

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Occupy Wall Street Responds to Release of Pepper-Spraying Cop's Information

By Rosie Gray Mon., Sep. 26 2011 at 4:10 PM
Categories: Anonymous, Protest, Rosie Gray, Wall Street

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NYPD congregated across the street from Zuccotti Park yesterday afternoon.
Anonymous has leaked the personal information of the cop who, according to photographs and video, is thought to be responsible for pepper-spraying young women during the Occupy Wall Street protest on Saturday. It is one Anthony Bologna, a Deputy Inspector for Patrol Borough Manhattan South. Bologna's badge was photographed on this blog and Anonymous has created a Pastebin document containing Bologna's possible phone numbers plus the names of his family members and possible addresses. The Anonymous release reads:

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Talking Points Memo Brought Down in Apparent Hacker Attack

By Nick Greene Sat., Sep. 10 2011 at 5:27 PM
Categories: Anonymous, Cybercrime, Hackers, Media, Nick Greene

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Talking Points Memo (or TPM, as the kids call it), was down for about 8 hours overnight. This major site interruption comes after they ran 14 mugshots of alleged members of the hacker group Anonymous after their arrests. TPM obtained the mugshots through the Freedom of Information Act and were not the only site to post the images (Gawker posted the images as well, but their site didn't face any apparent issues). There is no direct evidence that it was an Anonymous attack, but the timing is one hell of a coincidence.

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Anonymous Doesn't Actually Want to Destroy Facebook

By Rosie Gray Thu., Aug. 11 2011 at 8:42 AM
Categories: Anonymous, Department of Corrections, Facebook, Hackers, Internet, Internet Trolls, Oops!, Rosie Gray

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Stop backing up your Facebook photos, because hacker collective Anonymous' plot to kill the 'book was all a big misunderstanding. Not a hoax, exactly; there was once a plan by an Anonymous user named Speakeasy and associates to raise awareness about Facebook's privacy policies and start an alternate social networking service. The originators of the idea handed over the reigns to the social network, Anonplus, to others, but left scraps of their work behind. Like in a game of Telephone, those scraps were distorted in the hands of other Internet trolls and eventually it was made to seem as though Anonymous was hell-bent on Facebook's destruction.

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Anonymous Wants To Destroy Facebook

By Rosie Gray Tue., Aug. 9 2011 at 11:44 AM
Categories: Anonymous, Facebook, Hackers, Internet, Internet Trolls, Rosie Gray

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Anonymous, the shady-yet-principled hacktivist group that has previously hacked into Iran's government emails, the Pentagon, possibly the IMF, News Corp, Anders Breivik's Twitter account, and much more, has a new target in its crosshairs: Facebook. The hackers have set the date for Facebook's demise as November 5, 2011. The reason? Ironically, they're worried about privacy. Full text of their press release after the jump.

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Anders Behring Breivik's Twitter Account Hacked

By Rosie Gray Sun., Jul. 31 2011 at 4:15 PM
Categories: Anonymous, Hackers, International Affairs, Internet, Rosie Gray, Twitter

The Twitter account belonging to Anders Behring Breivik, the man who murdered over 90 people in Norway in twin attacks over a week ago, appears to have been hacked.

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That tweet indicates that "hacktivist" group Anonymous is behind the hack.

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