Hacktivist’s Advocate: Meet the Lawyer Who Defends Anonymous

Hacktivist’s Advocate: Meet the Lawyer Who Defends Anonymous

As a lawyer not particularly immersed in the technology world, Jay Leiderman first became interested in the hacker collective Anonymous around December 2010. That was when Anonymous activists launched distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) against Mastercard and...
FBI Escalates War On Anonymous

FBI Escalates War On Anonymous

The Feds raid the home of unofficial Anonymous spokesperson Barrett Brown. They’re after his Twitter records, chat logs, IRC conversations, his computer, and apparently everything else, according to the search warrant obtained by BuzzFeed. Last month, the FBI...
Endgame Systems: Hiding Behind Censorship?

Endgame Systems: Hiding Behind Censorship?

Endgame Systems Endgame Systems (founded 2008) has been of interest to this investigation due to the firm’s close association with corrupt HBGary CEO Aaron Barr, their stated intent to avoid public attention towards its work with the federal government, its...
ProjectPM.org – Exposing The Cyber Surveillance State

ProjectPM.org – Exposing The Cyber Surveillance State

The purpose of Project PM’s wiki is to provide a centralized, actionable data set regarding the intelligence contracting industry, the PR industry’s interface with totalitarian regimes, the mushrooming infosec/”cybersecurity” industry, and...