Raynaldo Rivera, 20, chose to plead guilty just like cohort Cody Kretsinger did earlier this year.
March 07, 2012
As the news settles that a trusted member of Anonymous was actually an FBI informant, some are wondering whether his FBI handlers went too far when trying to gather evidence about other suspected hackers.
Sabu, an Anonymous/LulzSec/AntiSec hacker beloved by many across the world, has spent the last nine months providing information to the FBI. What does this mean to the future of the hacktivist movement?
The leak, dubbed "Shooting Sherifs Saturday," contains more than 10 GB of stolen data belonging to sheriff's offices for mostly rural towns across the country.
The days of LulzSec could be numbered, as a key member of the small hacktivist group has been arrested, authorities in the U.K. said Wednesday.
The FBI has rounded up more than a dozen Anonymous members who demonstrated their support for WikiLeaks last December by launching DDoS attacks against PayPal's website.
Police believe they have apprehended a major cog in the LulzSec hacking collective's wheel, but the group said the suspect was, at best, a fringe associate.
Following up on attacks on Sony, InfraGard, PBS and a slew of other sites, the hacker group Lulz Security penetrated the website belonging to the U.S. Senate. On its site, the group says: "We don't like the U.S. government very much," and posts a list of file names it says were pilfered from Senate computers. However, in a statement, the Senate Sergeant at Arms Office said Lulz only penetrated a section of the upper chamber's site for public information and was "only able to read and determine the directory structure of the files placed on senate.gov." No individual user account information was compromised, the office said.
