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Spy games: Inside the convoluted plot to bring down WikiLeaks
"Bond, Q, and Monneypenny" By October 2010, Barr was under considerable stress.
The RSA security conference took place February 14-18 in San Francisco, and malware response company HBGary planned on a big announcement. The firm was about to unveil a new appliance called "Razor," a specialized computer plugged into corporate networks that could scan company computers for viruses, rootkits, and custom malware—even malicious code that had never been seen before. Razor "captures all executable code within the Windows operating system and running programs that can be found in physical memory," said HBGary, and it then "'detonates' these captured files within a virtual machine and performs extremely low level tracing of all instructions."
Anonymous vs. HBGary: the aftermath
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A security company that's been working with the government to track down the cyber-activists involved with Anonymous has now become the target of that very group.
Anonymous Hacks Security Company HBGary, Dumps 50,000 Emails Online
Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack
A little help from my friends Contained within Greg's mail were two bits of useful information. One: the root password to the machine running Greg's rootkit.com site was either "88j4bb3rw0cky88" or "88Scr3am3r88".
"Cyberwar" is a heavily loaded term, which conjures up Hollywood inspired images of hackers causing oil refineries to explode. Some security celebrities came out very strongly against the thought of it, claiming that cyberwar was less science, and more science fiction. Last year on May 21, the United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) reported reaching initial operational capability, and news stories abound of US soldiers undergoing basic cyber training , which all point to the idea that traditional super powers are starting to explore this arena.
Lessons from Anonymous on cyberwar - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
Anonymous Takes Revenge On Security Firm For Trying To Sell Supporters’ Details To FBI - Parmy Olson - Disruptors - Forbes
If you thought Anonymous limited its cyber attacks to those who blocked WikiLeaks or suppressed free information, you’d be wrong.
WikiLeaks reportedly plans to release information about Bank of America. Photograph: Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/DPA/Corbis
Anonymous: US security firms 'planned to attack WikiLeaks' | Media | guardian.co.uk
How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price
Aaron Barr believed he had penetrated Anonymous.
Aaron Barr, CEO of security company HBGary Federal, spent the month of January trying to uncover the real identities of the hacker collective Anonymous—only to end with his company website knocked offline, his e-mails stolen, 1TB of backups deleted, and his personal iPad wiped when Anonymous found out.
(Virtually) face to face: how Aaron Barr revealed himself to Anonymous
SAN FRANCISCO-- The news keeps getting worse for security firm HBGary Federal.
HBGary Emails A Sweet Valentine For Social Engineers | threatpost
'Anonymous' Hacker Group Teaches Shady Cyber-Security Companies a Lesson They'll Never Forget | Media | AlterNet
Shortly after the overreaching CEO of Sacramento's so-called cybersecurity outfit, HBGary Federal, assembled an online attack plan against pro-Wikileaks supporters like Salon journalist Glenn Greenwald and prematurely bragged about "pwning" the upstart hacker collective Anonymous privately to his employees and publicly to the Financial Times , Anonymous quickly retaliated by raiding his drives, releasing 40,000 HBGary Federal emails, remotely wiping his iPad and engendering a scathing public disconnection from those who have known and employed him.HBGary, the security firm that saw its servers hacked and its e-mails released after its HBGary Federal offshoot angered the Anonymous hive, published a rather peculiar open letter this past Friday in an effort to address the "large amount of misinformation reported in the press." But the letter makes some questionable claims of its own.