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| Wikileaks' 'Anonymous' Hackers Strike Back |
| 2011-02-20 |
| An interesting event. I can almost understand what happened Computer security firm HBGary & its federal branch HBGary Federal had a very bad week. The CEO of HBGary Federal said he was prepared to name key players in the 'Anonymous' DOS attacks against supposed enemies of Wikileaks a few months ago. The 'Anonymous' response was swift and humiliating. HBGary's servers were broken into, its e-mails pillaged and published to the world, its data destroyed, and its website defaced. As an added bonus, a second site owned and operated by Greg Hoglund, owner of HBGary, was taken offline and the user registration database published. Well-known 'best practices' were not followed. Key details are in the article. |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #3 Someone needs to start finding these organizers and followers and breaking legs, privately. RADIUS logs tell you all you need to know for location. A little old fashioned detective work and a bit of brains you can drive some of these out. Start imposing real world consequences on things like this. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2011-02-20 23:59 |
| #2 Ok this is a top 'Computer Security' company. And their website is open to something as simple as SQL Injection? Obviously someone didn't have their shit together. Not even close. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-02-20 22:44 |
| #1 You play in the big leagues, you better have your shit together. |
| Posted by: mojo 2011-02-20 20:32 |