'You have zero class': Anonymous issues blistering attack on N.S. justice minister over lack of charges in Rehtaeh Parsons case

'Anonymous Korea' Attacks North Korean State Websites

"Anonymous Korea" claimed to take down several North Korean state websites Saturday, just hours after North Korea said it has entered into a "state of war" with South Korea.

North Korea's main official state website was back up and running, as of 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Saturday. But Mashable was still unable to access three of the five listed websites that Anonymous Korea claimed to have attacked.

The attacks appear to be as part of an online hacking effort dubbed "#OpNorthKorea."

#OpnorthKorea #Tangodownairkoryo.com.kp naenara.com.kpkorea-dpr.comfriend.com.kpuriminzokkiri.com

— Anonymous_Korea (@Anonsj) March 30, 2013

Uriminzokkiri, a North Korean news and propaganda site, was also back up after a reported hack.

The site for North Korea's official central news agency appeared unaffected Saturday.

Saturday's cyberattacks against North Korea also happened just a day after the country claimed to have rockets aimed at U.S. targets.

Earlier this month, South Korean officials suspected that North Korea may have instigated attacks agains three banks and two broadcasters, The New York Times reported.

Update, 3:45 p.m. ET:

While Anonymous Korea took credit for Saturday’s attacks, a self-proclaimed “hactivist for good” – known as The Jester – claimed they hijacked his efforts:

Yawn. Anonymous hijacking my gig again. mashable.com/2013/03/30/ano… << Umm I'm pretty sure it was me, because I was there when I did it.

— JΞSTΞR™(@th3j35t3r) March 30, 2013

Using a justification that "there is an unequal amount of good and bad in most things," The Jester has previously claimed responsibility for hacking WikiLeaks, 4chan and Jihadist websites. He claims to obstruct “the lines of communication for terrorists, sympathizers, fixers, facilitators, oppressive regimes and other general bad guys.”

http://youtu.be/0OINPFeD5C4

VICE Speaks to Barrett Brown from Prison

Steubenville Rape Trial Begins, Protests Continue - Prosecutor Says Girl Was "too impaired to say no"

Via NBC News By Erin McClam

The two Ohio high school football stars accused of raping a drunken 16-year-old girl humiliated “somebody who was too impaired to say no, somebody who was too impaired to say stop,” a prosecutor said Wednesday.



In her opening statement at a trial that has divided the football-obsessed town of Steubenville, prosecutor Marianne Hemmeter also said that the girl was “soft-spoken, mumbling and not participating” in the assault.

Two players, quarterback Trent Mays and wide receiver Ma’Lik Richmond, are accused of using their hands to violate the girl in a car and in a basement during a night of victory parties last August.
The case became national news because graphic cellphone photos and video, including a YouTube posting of a partygoer cracking crude jokes about the alleged rape, spread on social media.
In a brief opening statement, Brian Duncan, the lawyer representing Mays, said simply: “Trent Mays did not rape the young lady in question.” The lawyer for Richmond declined to make an opening statement.

Jason Cohn / Reuters file
Harding Stadium, home of the Steubenville High Big Red football team. Two members are going on trial Wednesday for allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl in a case that drew national attention.

The girl, who told police she didn’t remember the incident, will be among dozens of witnesses taking the stand. Three players who have not been charged but allegedly witnessed the encounters are expected to testify for the prosecution.

The prosecution’s evidence also includes a photograph posted on Instagram of Mays, 17, and Richmond, 16, carrying the teen out of a house by her arms and legs.
Questioned by prosecution and defense attorneys about how much the teen girl had to drink, the first witnesses, both 17-year-old girls, testified they saw the alleged victim the night of Aug. 11.
One of the girls, a Steubenville High student, said alleged victim was having difficulty walking but never appeared to pass out. The other witness said she had never seen her friend so intoxicated.
The trial has put the town, where “Big Red football” dominates life, under a harsh spotlight. Town officials and business leaders have taken to the media to say that the case doesn’t reflect Steubenville.
In a sign of the tension surrounding the case, Richmond’s grandmother has said she has been threatened.
If convicted, Mays and Richmond could be held in a juvenile jail until they are 21.

The Steubenville Rape Case: The Story You Haven't Heard

http://youtu.be/BWKy041T2gY

Anonymous Participate In Silent Protest As Steubenville Rape Trial Starts

http://youtu.be/otD-gUgq7go

Gizmodo - Anonymous Leaks Marine Corps Massacre Case

Via Gizmodo

The bombs keep dropping from Anonymous—first local cops, then the FBI, and now the Marine Corps: sensitive documents from 2005's Haditha Killings trial. Anon doesn't think the Marine in charge should have gotten off so lightly. This is their payback.

Seven years ago, (then Sergeant) Frank Wuterich and several other marines he commanded killed 24 Iraqi citizens in Haditha, Iraq, in an apparent act of revenge for an unrelated IED strike. Despite admitting to the killings, Wuterich just last week officially got off with only a charge of "negligent dereliction of duty." No jail time, no serious conviction whatsoever.

Now the law firm that defended Wuterich, Puckett and Faraj has been hit with Anonymous long internet arm of "justice." Their site has been hijacked, and a giant 3 GB trove of personal information pertaining to the case (and other matters) busted wide open by Anon:

We went ahead and fired off some shots of our own - at the servers and personal email accounts of Puckett & Faraj. We defaced their website and dumped nearly 3GB of private email messages belonging to Neal Puckett and Haytham Faraj. The contents of these email messages include detailed records, transcripts, testimony, trial evidence, and legal defense donation records pertaining to not only Frank Wuterich but also many other marines they have represented.

And to add a few layers of icing to this delicious caek, we got the usual boatloads of embarrassing personal information. How do you think the world will react when they find out Neal Puckett and his marine buddies have been making crude jokes about the incident where marines have been caught on video pissing on dead bodies in Afghanistan? Or that he regularly corresponds with and receives funding from former marine Don Greenlaw who runs the racist blog http://snooper.wordpress.com? We believe it is time to release all of their private information and court evidence to the world and conduct a People's trial of our own.

Anonymous draws an immediate comparison to Bradley Manning, the soldier behind the Wikileaks Cablegate bonanza whose trial has been a pretty far cry from transparent—about as opaque as brig walls.

Bradley Manning who was brave enough to risk his life and freedom to expose the truth about government corruption is threatened with life imprisonment.



When justice cannot be found within the the confines of their crooked court systems, we must seek revenge on the streets and on the internet - and dealing out swift retaliation is something we are particularily good at. Worry not comrades, it's time to deliver some epic ownage.

Unable to do anything about the Manning case, Anonymous will have to hope "epic ownage" is a decent replacement for activism and advocacy. So far, no promised torrent for the data has appeared on the Pirate Bay account Anonymous is pointing to, but that's sure to change any minute now.

Update 1: I placed a call to Puckett & Faraj, and they have no idea they've been hacked. Waiting for a call back.

Update 2: The firm's site is currently down.

Update 3: A source within Anonymous tells me all of today's strikes are indeed a coordinated effort, though not all tied to the Wuterich case: "Each attack has it's particular motivations. For example, boston police have been in our crosshairs ever since they started harassing the occupation movement there."

Update 4: You can find a screencap of the original defacement and manifesto here.

Update 5: A torrent of the firm's data is currently being prepared for the public.

Update 6: A day later and still no public torrent, although the snatched data is available via encrypted browser network Tor. Our pals at Gawker have already found some nuggets.

Anonymous Joins Growing Support Of Dorner In Exposing LAPD

Pastebins have recently been showing up with the hashtag #opDorner the past couple days showing Anonymous' support of Christopher Dorner. It's unclear at the time whether they are condoning the actions of the accused murderer or just using the situation as an outlet to expose LAPD corruption.

This one showed up February 8th on pastebin.com:

#OpDorner Communique #1


Aaron Swartz Brigade


February 9, 2013


It says something that, more than 24 hours after a fed-up ex-cop who'd been run out of the LAPD for standing up to corruption and bigotry killed several people, we as a society have failed to achieve our usual post-shooting consensus. By now, we'd normally be wringing our hands over gun laws and mental illness as we reflected on the incident from the safe perspectve of history.


Now, though Dorner's still out there, and so we are not safe historical observers. We are ACTORS in the ongoing drama. The veneer of control and normalcy has been shattered; we've had enough time to digest what he's doing and why he's doing it, and we can no longer simply label him as a psycho and move on with our lives. Instead, as the LAPD's control has slipped, it has begun to show its true colors as a horrifyingly racist, incompetent, trigger-happy, and psychopathically violent institution, as they desperately mow down innocent black men and asian newspaper women. Protect and serve our asses; the LAPD is nothing more than a brual occupying army that deserves the same treatment as occupying American soldiers received on the streets of Falluja.


This is not a shooting spree. This is an insurrection. Stations, Anons!


We Do Not Forgive.
We Do Not Forget.
Expect Us.
#OpDorner

Another was posted then appears to have been removed from pastebin shortly after.

Hello, officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, we are anonymous.


As national headlines regarding the vigilante acts of former LAPD officer Christopher Jordan Dorner continue to intensify, we have decided amongst ourselves to pursue an appropriate recourse.


And so we watched with dread and utter hilarity as the LAPD began to pursue this man.



However the department has proven once more that it is incapable of serving the public, look no further than to the women who became LAPD’s most recent victims. The two were shot without warning and were not even given the chance to surrender simply because LAPD thinks they are above the law.


No one is above the law.


In coordination with federal authorities, the LAPD is now conducting a massive manhunt for The Dark Knight Christopher Dorner, so that they may effectively silence him forever without due process.


And now since the authorization of drones have been approved for the first time ever to pursue and execute an American citizen on United States Soil, the US Government will stage this event to set a new precedent from which it can assassinate American citizens for little to no reason at all.


But do not misinterpret us for we do not condone the vicious acts that Dorner has allegedly partaken in. Instead we sympathize and resonate with his struggle. Dorner was not born a killer he was a law abiding citizen that was tainted by the corrupt and inhumane practices of the Los Angeles Police Department who serve only themselves.


We however do not accept this fate, and call upon our brothers to raise arms against the LAPD, for justice and for the lulz we will rise to disrupt, dismantle and dissect all aspects of the manhunt whilst revealing the LAPD’s unwarranted hypocrisy.


We are hated, vilified, and like Dorner, considered to be enemies to the state. But there are those who whisper that we are culture and a necessity that bring truth to a cloaked world. In this spirit we will forge ahead and allow #OperationDorner to commence!

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Chris Dorner Facebook Fan Pages

There is also a growing trend of FaceBook fan pages showing support for Chris Dorner.

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MSM's Response To Growing Support

It's gotten to the point that even main stream media has been responding to what seems like blatant support of a murderer. The whole situation begs the question of whether we are hearing the whole story. The unfortunate thing is that this man will most likely not survive long enought to have a day in trial and tell his side of the story seeing as how the LAPD is shooting first and asking questions never.

CBS - Support Growing For Christopher Dorner, Ex-LAPD Cop Hunted for Mass Killing

http://youtu.be/JpMGnvh6yzc

Anonymous Posts Over 4000 US Bank Executive Credentials

Following attacks on U.S. government websites last weekend, Anonymous seems to have made a new "Operation Last Resort" .gov website strike Sunday night.


Anonymous appears to have published login and private information from over 4,000 American bank executive accounts in the name of its new Operation Last Resort campaign, demanding U.S. computer crime law reform.


A spreadsheet has been published on a .gov website allegedly containing login information and credentials, IP addresses, and contact information of American bank executives.


If true, it could be that Anonymous has released banker information that could be connected to Federal Reserve computers, including contact information and cell phone numbers for U.S. bank Presidents, Vice Presidents, COO's Branch Managers, VP's and more.


The website used in this attack belongs to the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center (ACJIC). The page extension URL is titled, "oops-we-did-it-again."

Full Article at ZDNet

They posted the dox on acjic.alabama.gov originally but when I checked it, the entire site was down.

@oplastresort Document is now down, mirror please?

— Satori Tindalos (@SatoriTindalos) February 4, 2013

A few short tweets later, another post on another government website, this one up with the questions demanded regarding the treatment of Aaron Swartz

And Yes 2day is DDay 4th Feb tic Toc on the Holder clock! We Want Answers oversight.house.gov/wp-content/upl… #oplastresort #floodthecourt Feb 6th

— OpLastResort (@OpLastResort) February 4, 2013

And then another post of the dox, this one still up, on yet another government server.

@oplastresort huh, how long will THAT last? ;)

— Kyle Maxwell (@kylemaxwell) February 4, 2013

The hack seems to be a follow up to the attack on the DoJ website last week, here's the full press release from Anonymous thats been circuilating on YouTube
http://youtu.be/qShtKUheVC0

Anonymous Threatens Massive WikiLeaks-Style Exposure, Announced On Hacked Gov Site

Hacktivist organization, Anonymous, is threatening perhaps their biggest play ever: a massive WikiLeaks-style exposure of sensitive U.S. government secrets.

As proof of their power, they announced details of the plan on hacked government website, the United States Sentencing Commission (USSC.gov). Citing the recent death of free information activist Aaron Swartz, they explain, "With Aaron’s death we can wait no longer. The time has come to show the United States Department of Justice and its affiliates the true meaning of infiltration."


Swartz was facing up to 50+ years in prison and a $4 million fine after releasing pay-walled academic articles from the popular JSTOR database. Some legal scholars have argued that releasing copyrighted material, or breaking the “terms of service” of a website, should not carry such harsh penalties. Anonymous is demanding that legislation be passed to no longer consider such violations a felony–a law that Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (CrunchGov Grade: A) has already introduced.

If legal reforms are not enacted, Anonymous has threatened to activate files containing embarrassing or incriminating secrets.

Full Article on Tech Crunch

http://youtu.be/WaPni5O2YyI

Huffington Post - Anonymous Hacks MIT, U.S. Department Of Justice In Aaron Swartz Tribute

Internet activists with the group Anonymous claimed credit for hacking the Massachusetts Institute of Technology website Sunday, in memoriam of the Aaron Swartz, the Reddit co-founder who recently committed suicide.


Reddit users reported the entire mit.edu domain was down, including their school email service. The backup emergency site, emergency.mit.net, was reportedly down too. MIT's website was restored Sunday evening, as Anonymous admitted they were behind the attack.


"Whether or not the government contributed to his suicide, the government's prosecution of Swartz was a grotesque miscarriage of justice, a distorted and perverse shadow of the justice that Aaron died fighting for — freeing the publicly-funded scientific literature from a publishing system that makes it inaccessible to most of those who paid for it — enabling the collective betterment of the world through the facilitation of sharing — an ideal that we should all support," Anonymous' said in a statement, which replaced MIT's website.

Full Article on Huffington Post

Steubenville Covers For Its High School Football Stars/Rapists, Anonymous Strikes

New information has been leaked about the Steubenville football rape incident by Anonymous following the recent defacement of rollredroll.com by a subcell of Anonymous by the handle of Knightsec. They've even have a disclaimer up right now due to the defacement denouncing any claims made against them.(click for full size)



Alexander Abad-Santos from the theatlanticwire.com reports a recent interview:

If not everyone believes the rape happened, aren't the town's football allegiances going to get in the way of a fair trial?

Well, yes, there's this from the Times report: "the county prosecutor and the judge in charge of handling crimes by juveniles recused themselves from the case because they had ties to the football team."

Wait, is this some sort of cover-up?

Well, that's why the hacktivist collective known as Anonymous — and, more specifically, one of its cells known as Knightsec — got involved. The hackers, and their partners at the site Local Leaks, are "giving a voice to the victim of this horrible crime" by rounding up new information that the police haven't been able to — or at least that hasn't been made publicly available in advance of next month's trial. They seem to believe that there are more people involved, that there are more victims, that the accused are getting special treatment because they are football players, and that there's a bigger group of boys involved, which Anonymous has dubbed the "Rape Crew." Oh, and they've set up Occupy Steubenville protests too.

And all this denial continues even after video footage has been leaked showing pretty obvious admission of guilt. This is just disgusting.
http://youtu.be/22UsHZXPi7Q

Anonymous Targets Ohio Football Team After Violent Rape Of Local Girl

After getting little to no response to a truly heinous rape, Anonymous and various denizens of the internet decide to take action. You can see the growing Reddit thread here. Anonymous has recently left a video response about their new operation, OpRollRedRoll.

"This is a warning shot to the school faculty [Steubenville High School], the parents of those involved and those involved especially. A preliminary 'docs' is being released on some of those involved, while a full size docs of everyone involved including names, social security numbers addresses, relatives and phone numbers is being is being compiled as you watch this video, of every single member of the football team, those involved, the coaches, the principal and more. These docs will be released unless all accused parties come forward by New Year's Day and issue a public apology to the girl and her family. Make no mistake, all you need is a Google search engine to realize we are serious in what we do. You can hide no longer, you have attracted the attention of the hive. We cannot sit by idly and watch a group of young men who will turn to rape as a game or sport get the pass because of athletic ability and small town luck. You now have the world looking directly at you ... current principal and faculty, you would be wise not to shield the guilty."

As I am writing this I googled the event and the highschool's football team website rollredroll.com and Anon's are apparently already at work.

Check the title and description. The site itself seemed relatively intact but this story is still unfolding. You can check out First Coast News take on the story here

OpRollRedRoll Press Release

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s089FjJ0GSM

Hackers target Westboro Baptist Church after Newtown threat

After church leaders announce plans to protest at site of school massacre, Anonymous posts the personal information for dozens of members of the extremist group, including names, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers.

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