by Noah Shachtman | Nov 27, 2012 | Monitor
American officials are blaming Iran for recent attacks on the servers of western banks. But the hackers taking credit for the sophisticated distributed denial-of-service strikes say they pulled off the bank jobs without any government help.
by Robert Beckhusen | Nov 26, 2012 | Monitor
The deceptive multi-aliased filmmaker behind the shlocky Islamophobic movie “Innocence of Muslims” is even sneakier than we thought. His 17th alias has been uncovered, along with the filmmaker’s history as a one-time salesman of drug...
by Noah Shachtman | Nov 8, 2012 | Monitor
Steve Seiden, attorney for Mark Basseley Youssef, speaks after a hearing for his client at U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Photo: AP/Reed Saxon The White House is no longer blaming him and his inflammatory video for sparking an attack that killed the...
by Noah Shachtman | Sep 28, 2012 | Monitor
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, right, talks with his attorney. Illustration: AP/Mona Shafer Edwards Nakoula Basseley Nakoula is many things: a huckster, a convenient scapegoat, a terrible filmmaker. But to the members of America’s Islamophobic fringe, the producer of...
by Noah Shachtman | Sep 28, 2012 | Monitor
Anti-Islam film producer Nakoula Basseley Nakoula is escorted by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies from his home in Cerritos, California. Photo: AP/CBS2-KCAL9 Updated 9/28/12 3:53 pm. When federal snitch and convicted fraudster Nakoula Basseley Nakoula was...