1. Anonymous By Kendra Kennedy, Benjamin Fleshman, and Hassan Alsuleiman

2. Propaganda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUM0E_ EHIKQ

3. how did Anonymous start?

4. Operation: Payback is a Bitch (2010) Purpose: Retaliating against attacks on sites like the PirateBay Targets: Aiplex Software, Recording Industry Association of America, Motion Picture Association of America, British law firm ACS:Law, the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft, the British nightclub Ministry of Sound, the Spanish copyright society Sociedad General de Autores y Editores, the US Copyright Office, and lesser known sites. Estimated total down time of all sites: 538 Hours.

5. Operation: Avenge Assange (2010) Purpose: An extension of Operation: Payback, retaliating against those pressuring WikiLeaks to stop publishing secret U.S. diplomatic cables Targets: PayPal, PostFinance, the Swedish Prosecution Authority, MasterCard, and Visa

6. Operation Tunisia (2011) Purpose: To Support Arab Spring Movement in Tunisia Targets: Tunisian government websites, the Tunisian Prim Minister’s website Operation Egypt (2011) Purpose: To support Arab Spring Movement in Egypt Targets: Egyptian Government websites,

7. Other Noteworthy Attacks, Hacks, and Protests Westboro Baptist Church (2011) Sony (2011) Occupy Wall street (2011) Operation Darknet (2011-2012)

8. Subgroups Lulzsec: Used a BotNet owned by member KMS consisting of 8,000 infected servers for DDoS attacks. LulzRaft: A group or individual responsible for cyberterrorist activities in Canada. Targeted conservative political groups and Husky Energy.

9. 2011 Arrests Hector "Sabu" Monsegur: Member and leader in Lulzsec. Rolled over on key members and worked with FBI to avoid potential 124 year sentencing. Jeremy Hammond: "I did this because I believe people have a right to know what governments and corporations are doing behind closed doors" Source:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/21/ anonymous-arrests-fbi_n_3780980.html

10. 2011 Arrests (Cont.) Chris Doyan: Arrested for a cyberattack on the website for Santa Cruz county in California. Dmitriy Guzner: First person arrested in an Anonymous DDoS attack. Fingered in 2008 by the FBI for attacks against the church of scientology.

11. Noteable Recent Activity Operation Safe Winter(2013 - Today): A yearly non-hacking humanitarian effort to raise awareness of life on the streets. Operation Charlie Hebdo(2015): A retaliation to the Charlie Hebdo shootings to take down twitter accounts and websites associated with Islamic extremist groups. Operation ISIS(2015): Retaliation against ISIS for recent events. An attempt to take down social media accounts associated with the terrorist group in which 9,200 twitter accounts where recorded and released.

12. Sources http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/21/anonymous-arrests-fbi_n_3780980.html/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_%28group%29#Operation_Safe_Winter_.282013.E2.80.93present.29/ http://www.bustle.com/articles/65444-how-did-anonymous-start-the-history-of-the-mysterious-hacktivist-group- began-quite-some-time-ago/ http://mic.com/articles/23922/what-is-anonymous-everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-the-shadowy- internet-group/ http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/28/nyregion/hacker-who-helped-disrupt-cyberattacks-is-allowed-to-walk- free.html?ref=topics/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LulzSec/ http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-and-breaches/lulzsecs-top-3-hacking-tools-deconstructed/d/d-id/1098717/ http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Avenge_Assange_Anonymous.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_%28group%29 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/03/anonymous-charges-operation- payback_n_4039887.htmlhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/03/anonymous-charges-operation- payback_n_4039887.html http://www.biography.com/people/julian-assange-20688499 http://www.aklagare.se/In-English/ http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/anonymous-most-memorable-hacks/13/ http://middleeast.about.com/od/humanrightsdemocracy/a/Definition-Of-The-Arab-Spring.htm http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/anonymous-most-memorable-hacks/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/online-donors-data-breached-conservatives-1.1015349 https://anoninsiders.net/operation-safe-winter-2014-2652/ http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/12/anonymous-target-terrorist-twitter-accounts- charlie-hebdo-attack http://www.newsweek.com/anonymous-sees-9200-isis-linked-twitter-accounts-314116