Wikileaks
In late 2010, a group of Anonymous hacktivists fired the Low Orbit Ion Cannon (otherwise known as the hacker group's distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack) at PayPal as part of "Operation Payback." On Thursday, 13 defendants who had been charged with that PayPal attack pleaded guilty in a California federal court.
Bradley Manning, the US Army Private First Class solider convicted of leaking over 700,000 secret government documents, struggled with gender identify during his deployment in Iraq.
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has been visited by Hollywood friends Lady Gaga, Yoko Ono and John Cusack at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has taken refuge for over a year. A Hollywood film about Assange, "The Fifth Estate" is also set to premiere in October.
Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, remains at the Ecuadorian embassy in Knightsbridge, England after British and Ecuadorian officials met and were unable to come to consensus on how to handle the journalist's case.
Wikileaks has released the transcript of a previously secret 2011 meeting between founder Julian Assange and Google’s chairman Eric Schmidt.
The 41-year-old is reportedly suffering from a chronic lung infection due to lack of sunlight and lack of fresh air.
For the first time since his arrest in 2010 for allegedly passing classified documents to Wikileaks, Army Private Bradley Manning will speak in public.
