By Richi Jennings. 16 February 2011.
HBGary Federal has been the subject of counterattacks by the anonymous group-s-not-a-group. The insecure security companies authorised his email to losses for the supporters of WikiLeaks. And now has had to pull out the RSA Conference and related unconference, HBGary security B-Sides. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers, laugh and laugh and laugh.
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Josh Halliday reports:
Apparently leaked emails suggest that three private security undertakings – HBGary federal, Palantir technologies and Berico – they pitched a plan to undermine ... WikiLeaks ... for a law firm that represented the Bank of America ... thought to be the next target of WikiLeaks. ... Anonymous began to tens of thousands of emails sent to Federal HBGary last weekend, after the release of the ... group attacked the company's computer systems security.
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Bank of America ... they said they hadn't known about ... strategy to undermine WikiLeaks ... and that HB Gary Federal was never taken on their behalf. Berico technologies and Palantir also attempted to distance themselves from leaked emails. ... HBGary, an affiliate company at HBGary Federal ... said that the actions of Anonymous were "criminal".
Peter Bright adds:
HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr thought that he had tipped off the hordes of anonymous hacker and was preparing a name and shame those responsible for the coordination of actions of the group. ... When Barr said one of those who believed to be a music man anonymous on his upcoming exposé ... HBGary's servers were broken into, sacked and published his email in the world, its data is destroyed and its website defaced. ... A second site owned and operated by Greg Hoglund, HBGary owner, was taken offline and published user registration database.
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HBGary Federal HBGary and position yourself as an expert in computer security. ... You might think that this organization estimated would prove insurmountable challenge for a lot of guys disaffected hack. ... Unfortunately for HBGary ... recruiting expertise [not] accurate, as the story of how was hacked HBGary will clarity.
Ryan Naraine observes the empty space on the show floor of RSA Conference:
HBGary start-up security withdrew from the RSA Conference here after the recent hacking attack which included the release of 20,000 email. ... On the show floor of RSA Conference, booth HBGary has been replaced with this sign to explain the circumstances.
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HBGary people received many threats of violence. ... In an effort to protect our employees, customers and the community of RSA Conference, HBGary has decided to remove the stand and cancel all the talks.
Andy greenbergsays that not only is the show that lacks HBGary:
Rarely in the history of cybersecurity industry has a society become so toxic so quickly as HBGary Federal. ... [I] scandal ... seems to grow every day of his dubious practices come to light.
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The company is canceling talks of all its directors at the RSA Conference, the largest cybersecurity industry confab of the year. ... Hoglund had planned to give two presentations at the Conference. ... Barr last week has canceled her speech at Conference B-Sides simultaneously, you would put on his expose to anonymous.
and Andrea Petroudirty dishes:
According To ... Crowdleaks.org ... by Greg Hoglund emails show that HBGary could have worked on a new type of Windows rootkit. If it was released in the wild may have caused many security problems due to the fact that it was nearly impossible to remove and undetectable. ... Other emails show the work that has been performed for defense contractor General Dynamics ... HBGary said to have developed, Trojans, rootkits and other spyware programs. ... These codes have been appointed as Project C, Z activities and task M.
Meanwhile,DJ Walter-Morganhas more bad news for the company of "security":
The scale of the disaster that has passed ... HBGary ... is slowly becoming clear. ... It turns out that Aaron Barr, CEO of controlled HBGary federal, offered his services to illuminate the darkness surrounding anonymous the FBI. ... Barr collected information on the accounts of activists suspected IRC, Facebook and Twitter.
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Seem that attackers have used fake emails to get an administrator to allow SSH access. Attackers had previously had access to the root password. ... However, in view of the practice of sending HBGary even sensitive data in plain text (unencrypted) email to the fact that passwords are that their way into the wrong hands is not particularly surprising.
And finally ...
What they are putting in Ukrainian water?
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