http://www.csoonline.com/article/702098/was-lulzsec-bust-part-of-a-play-against-julian-assange- By Taylor Armerding CSO March 13, 2012 Last week's arrests of five LulzSec leaders was major news in the hacktivist world, but it looks like that takedown may have been just an intermediate step in pursuit of a more prominent fugitive: WikiLeaks founder and editor-in-chief Julian Assange. The first shock to the loose affiliation of political hackers known as Anonymous, of which LulzSec is a spinoff, is that those arrested last week had been turned in by their leader, Hector Xavier Monsegur, 28, of New York, known by his alias "Sabu." Monsegur reportedly had been cooperating with the FBI since last summer. He was arrested in June and pleaded guilty in August to a dozen criminal charges. And, according to multiple sources, Monsegur also provided an FBI-owned computer to facilitate the release of five million emails taken by LulzSec from the Texas-based, global private intelligence firm Stratfor, which are now being published by WikiLeaks. [...] ______________________________________________________________________________ ISSMP, CISSP, and Certified Ethical Hacker training with Expanding Security gives the best training and support. Get a free live class invite weekly. Best program, best price. http://www.ExpandingSecurity.com/PainPillReceived on Tue Mar 13 2012 - 22:34:28 PDT
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