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Posted by Mandy Nagy on October 04, 2013 13 Comments
You may recall that in August, the owner of secure email provider Lavabit abruptly shut down the service, leaving little indication as to why, other than a cryptic message posted at the company’s website. Based upon limited statements made by Lavabit’s owner Ladar Levison since...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on September 30, 2013 2 Comments
The Syrian Electronic Army breached the Twitter account of GlobalPost on Monday and claims to have hacked the outlet’s website, in retaliation for an article the outlet published about the group earlier this month. Posting from GlobalPost’s Twitter account, the pro-Assad hacking group tweeted, “Think...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on September 26, 2013 4 Comments
The FBI has made an arrest in the case involving the sextortion attempt against Miss Teen USA Cassidy Wolf. From the LA Times: The FBI has arrested a 19-year-old Temecula man who authorities believe to be involved in a “sextortion” case involving Miss Teen USA Cassidy Wolf...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on September 16, 2013 48 Comments
The FBI identified the deceased gunman in today’s Washington Navy Yard shooting as Aaron Alexis.  The agency released photos of him and is asking for the public’s assistance in providing any information concerning Alexis. The reporting on today’s incident is still very fluid – in...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on September 10, 2013 4 Comments
The Syrian Electronic Army has claimed responsibility for another attack on media outlets, this time through a Hootsuite account associated with at least two international FOX television networks. The incident was first reported by Matthew Keys’ The Desk: The Syrian Electronic Army compromised a Hootsuite...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on September 07, 2013 6 Comments
A Missouri man will plead guilty for his role in connection with a 2011 series of cyberattacks on websites associated with Koch Industries that occurred during the recall protests against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. From the Smoking Gun: In a plea agreement struck with Department...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 24, 2013 19 Comments
The spate of racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim, and homophobic posters and graffiti that plagued the Oberlin College campus in February 2013 was definitively exposed as a hoax led by a pro-Obama liberal anti-racist student activist seeking to get a reaction from the community. The post by Chuck Ross of The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 22, 2013 43 Comments
A massive racism hoax took place at Oberlin College in February 2013 in which two students made seemingly racist, anti-Semitic and other such posters, graffiti and emails for the purpose of getting a reaction on campus, not because they believed the hostile messages.  At least one of the...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on August 01, 2013 6 Comments
NSA leaker Edward Snowden has left Sheremetyevo Airport after receiving his paperwork today approving temporary asylum in Russia. FLASH: Edward Snowden has successfully acquired refugee status in Russia and will shortly leave the airport. — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) August 1, 2013 From the NY Times: After...

Posted by Andrew Branca on July 23, 2013 76 Comments
Much has been made lately of the self-defense legal doctrine of Stand-Your-Ground, mostly for political purposes unrelated to any actual legal application of the doctrine (for more on this, see here: Stand-Your-Ground: Gun Control Zombies Exploit Grieving Black Community). Stand Your Ground Does Not Make it...
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