After seeing this guy, Gregory D. Evans talk last year about Wikileaks, the Anon people, Mastercard and all that I seriously felt this guy was a bit of a phony. It turns out, his emails where got to and twitter accounts, personal and professional where broken into.

It only seems logic that a firm (Liggat) that boasts they can teach how to become a hacker in 15 minutes cannot realistically know anything about security. Anyway, links with more info here:

• Full article from TheTechHerald
• Copy of the announcement
• Gregory's C.V.
• T-shirts sold by Liggat - If they find the attacker they HAVE to offer him/her/them one of these !
• http://ligattleaks.wordpress.com/ - Ligatt leaks - Closed
• ligattleaks.blogs.ru - Not closed (yet?)
• twitter.com/ligattleaks - Close one and many others open..

Bonus image of Gregory D. Evans.

Seems like right after the yearly christian holidays the Wikileaks plate is being re-heated. A subpoena has been issued asking Twitter to provide certain information to the United States Department of Justice. This seems like a way of propagating fear and intimidation towrds anyone with any kind of link or support towards Wikileaks.

(way) Better writers than me have posted good articles here:

• Iceland blasts US demand for lawmaker's details in WikiLeaks probe
• The Excuse is Wikileaks the Object is Freedom of Speech the Subject is Authoritarianism
• The Number of Wikileaks Supporters will only Increase

A group has started organising protests in Spain and is calling for others to organise events in other countries -> Free Wikileaks (dot EU)

One of the Twitter accounts targeted is that of Birgitta Jónsdóttir, there are a few others.

The past week or so has been quite interesting and seems this pending issue will not simply "go away", at least not that easily. I have gathered a few interesting links about what's up and down, I will try to update this.. (there are so many pages about this it's out of control).

Wikileaks

• Petition to governments
• Mass-mirroring Wikileaks - Become a mirror
• twitter.com/wikileaks
• Mirror list status
• Australia blames the U.S.
• Don't shoot messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths - a word from Julian Assange
• WikiLeaks Shines a Light on the Limits of Techno-Politics
• DataCell's word on Visa's behaviour
• Dear PayPal: Wikileaks is not a terrorist organization
• OVH and Wikileaks - "That's how it should work under the rule of law.
• Federal Bureau of Irony
• Bolivian government publishes cables related to them ! - AWESOME !

Internet Protests

• Cyberattacks Are Retaliation for Pressure on WikiLeaks
• Visa.com taken down by botnet volunteers
• MasterCard attacked by voluntary botnet after WikiLeaks decision
• Wikileaks Twitter account (while it lasts ?)
• Hacker toolkits attracting volunteers to defend WikiLeaks
• Tis the Season of DDoS – WikiLeaks Edition - good ddos timeline with crispy details
• Thousands download LOIC software for Anonymous attacks
• A message from Anonymous
• 2600 Magazine condemns DDoS attacks - It's the comments that I like
• Netcraft attack summary: Part 2

Anon sites/channels (many down)

A few Anonymous channels have been taken down, there are plenty of others coming up, going down, moving around etc..

• AnonOps communication - active
• twitter.com/Anonops - active
• facebook.com/anonops - active (if you happen to use facebook....)
• anonops.net - Seems like Enom has removed the name server for the domain on Dec 8 2010: Domain Name: ANONOPS.NET Registrar: ENOM, INC. Whois Server: whois.enom.com Referral URL: http://www.enom.com Name Server: No nameserver Status: ok Updated Date: 08-dec-2010 Creation Date: 26-oct-2010 Expiration Date: 26-oct-2011
• anonops.info - domain has been de-activated today (Dec 14 2010): Domain ID:D35610231-LRMS Domain Name:ANONOPS.INFO Created On:29-Nov-2010 18:03:09 UTC Last Updated On:14-Dec-2010 01:08:48 UTC Expiration Date:29-Nov-2011 18:03:09 UTC Sponsoring Registrar:eNom, Inc. (R126-LRMS) Status:INACTIVE Status:TRANSFER PROHIBITED
• twitter.com/Anon_Operation - suspended
• twitter.com/Anon_Operationn - suspended

Some people have been deleting their Paypal accounts and leaving a comments about how they feel.