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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.
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
Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack
It has been an embarrassing week for security firm HBGary and its HBGary Federal offshoot.
"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
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
How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price
Aaron Barr believed he had penetrated Anonymous. The loose hacker collective had been responsible for everything from anti-Scientology protests to pro-Wikileaks attacks on MasterCard and Visa, and the FBI was now after them.
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
'Anonymous' Hacker Group Teaches Shady Cyber-Security Companies a Lesson They'll Never Forget | Media
February 16, 2011 |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.
HBGary's open letter: full of denials that don't hold water
UPDATED: The HB Gary Email That Should Concern Us All
As I wrote yesterday , there is a leaked email that has gotten surprisingly little attention around here.This blog set to diaplay 20 days of posts. Sorry Blogspot only shows 3 days, waiting for a Google fix, G Prologue:
Anonymous on the ropes
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