Ian Bunn | Political & Popular Culture Arts

Don't give in to these people. Fight back (March 19th 2012)

Hector Xavier Monsegur the 28 year old Puetro Rican unemployed computer hacker living in New York has been identified as ‘Sabu’, the notorious founder of the hacking group LulzSec, turned informant for the FBI. Monsequr has apparently been working with the agency for the past ten months, aiding them to identify other hackers of the group. Monsequr the father of two maintained his pretence till the end, even tweeting on the final day of his outing his opposition to the government as five members of his group were arrested and his identity disclosed by the FBI. Tweeting “The federal government is run by a bunch of fucking cowards. Don’t give in to these people. Fight back. Stay strong.” The LulzSec hacker goup of about 10 people began with an attack on the Fox website, then Sony Pictures, followed by companies involved with online games, and News International changing The Sun’s website’s front page. However the FBI became extensively involved once they hacked into FBI’s affiliated InfraGard, the CIA website, US Congress and the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency. Anonymous, another hacker group reacted to Sabu’s outing and betrayal of LulzSec on Twitter, “#Anonymous is a hydra, cut off one head and we grow two back”.

Inspired by Adrian Chen http://ow.ly/9AQNL image source New York Post http://ow.ly/9AQHk

Team of cyber security professionals (October 31st)

Thomas Ryan a New York security consultant has been identified as part of an intelligence gathering operation within the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement. Ryan’s activities involved infiltrating the movement in order to discredit them, forwarding information gleaned from the movements internal email lists to the NYPD and FBI. Ryan claims on his blog to have worked for the US Army, leading a team called Black Cell, which he claims are “a team of the most-highly trained and capable physical, threat and cyber security professionals in the world.” Ryan is alleged to have sent emails containing the movements strategies to the extremist conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart, who has been using them in an attempt to paint the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement as anarchists bent on destroying the global financial markets.

Inspired by Alan Colmes http://ow.ly/6YFk4 image source Liberaland http://ow.ly/6YFjs

Jake Davis the 18 year old hacktivist known as Topiary and Gardenslayer has been arrested by UK police in the isolated Scotland Shetland Islands as a core leader of the hacktivist group Lulz Security (LulzSec). LulzSec are an important sub-group of ‘Anonymous Operations’ in their support for WikLeaks and maintaining internet freedom, and behind various attacks online over a 50 day hacking spree which included government websites throughout the middle east, FBI, CIA, Paypal, Visa, Mastercard, Sony etc. Davis ran the popular LulzSec twitter feed that described himself ‘Topiary’ as a “simple prankster turned swank garden hedge”. The twitter site has been sweeped clean of its feed with only one remaining “You cannot arrest an idea”. Davis has been charged with five offences including unauthorised computer access and conspiracy.

Inspired by Michael Santo http://ow.ly/5XAKu image source Anthony Devlin http://ow.ly/5XAEk