China-Based Hacking of DuPont Was One of Undisclosed Google-Type Attacks. The FBI broke the news to executives at DuPont Co. late last year that hackers had cracked the company’s computer networks for the second time in 12 months, according to a confidential Dec. 9, 2010, e-mail discussing the investigation.
About a year earlier, DuPont had been hit by the same China- based hackers who struck Google Inc. (GOOG) and unlike Google, DuPont kept the intrusion secret, internal e-mails from cyber-security firm HBGary Inc. show. As DuPont probed the incidents, executives concluded they were the target of a campaign of industrial spying, the e-mails show. The attacks on DuPont and on more than a dozen other companies are discussed in about 60,000 confidential e-mails that HBGary, hired by some of the targeted businesses, said were stolen from it on Feb. 6 and posted on the Internet by a group of hacker-activists known as Anonymous. The companies attacked include Walt Disney Co. Dangers ‘Unappreciated’ “The companies don’t want to disclose it,” he said. Hacker Targets.
Westboro baptist church hold incestuous orgy. LazyWebTools - Free Automatic Page Refresher - Refresh All Live Internet Content Easily. ?NN Anonymous News Network. Anonymous Hackers Launch Wikileaks for Normal People. AnonLeaks Continues Relationship With Criminals. #HBGary. HBGary Email Viewer: Portal - AnonLeaks. Project Vigilant Is a Fraud. 4 August 2010.
Volunteer Tells about Project Vigilant Fraud: 3 August 2010. A sends Google cache of Directors and General Counsel's Office 3 August 2010 Related: Project Vigilant (now redacted. BBHC Global L.L.C. AnonOps Web IRC (qwebirc) EiWCY.jpg (JPEG Image, 1440x861 pixels) - Scaled (70. HBGary CEO Also Suggested Tracking, Intimidating WikiLeaks’ Donors - Andy Greenberg - The Firewall. Chet Uber and Richard Brandt Vigilante Spies. 4 August 2010.
Volunteer Tells about Project Vigilant Fraud: 3 August 2010 After posting the file below, Google cache provided evidence that Project Vigilant is a fraud: Ubiquity of Online Spying Cryptome: The material below demonstrates the six degree of separation of spies and their presumably unwitting victims. Among many Internet research initiatives, The Center for Internet Research has 947 members with personal data on each available at its website. In particular: American Stats Assoc Lawful Gov Spying Guide, March 25, 2010 Also, Chet Uber is listed as a subscriber to cypherpunks in 2000. Project Vigilant (now redacted. BBHC Global L.L.C. Anonymous empire strikes back against HBGary - Security. Spy games: Inside the convoluted plot to bring down WikiLeaks.
When Aaron Barr was finalizing a recent computer security presentation for the US Transportation Security Administration, a colleague had a bit of good-natured advice for him: "Scare the sh*t out of them!
" In retrospect, this may not have been the advice Barr needed. As CEO of the government-focused infosec company HBGary Federal, Barr had to bring in big clients—and quickly—as the startup business hemorrhaged cash. To do so, he had no problem with trying to "scare the sh*t out of them. " When working with a major DC law firm in late 2010 on a potential deal involving social media, for instance, Barr decided that scraping Facebook to stalk a key partner and his family might be a good idea.
When he sent his law firm contact a note filled with personal information about the partner, his wife, her family, and her photography business, the result was immediate. "Thanks. This rather creepy behavior became common; Barr used it as a sign of his social media prowess. Anonymous and the global correction. The tendency to relate past events to what is possible in the present becomes more difficult as the scope of the geopolitical environment changes.
It is a useful thing, then, to ask every once in a while if the environment has recently undergone any particular severe changes, thereby expanding our options for the future. Terminology, let alone our means of exchanging information, has changed to such a degree that many essential discussions in today's "communications age" would be entirely incomprehensible to many two decades ago. As the social, political and technological environment has developed, some have already begun to explore new options, seizing new chances for digital activism - and more will soon join in.
The powerful law firm at the center of the WikiLeaks plot - War Room. One of the big outstanding questions in the story of the plot to undermine WikiLeaks and Salon’s Glenn Greenwald, as well as a separate plan to discredit critics of the Chamber of Commerce, is the nature of the role played by the large international law firm Hunton & Williams.
Hunton, which brags it employs 1,000 lawyers in 18 offices on three continents, has worked for both the Chamber and Bank of America. The company is nervous because WikiLeaks is reportedly planning to release internal bank documents, and Bank of America apparently connected with Hunton to help respond to the crisis. Hunton attorneys in turn had a series of e-mail communications — since hacked by WikiLeaks supporters and published online — with a trio of technology firms that proposed various schemes to attack WikiLeaks, Greenwald and critics of the Chamber. (One typical idea was to provide labor activists with false documents in order to discredit them.)
Anonymous Hackers Release Stuxnet Worm Online. A screenshot from a proganda video released by the anonymous group that attacked the websites of MasterCard, Visa and other sites.
