Tag: HBGARY

News keeps coming out of the Anonymous attack on the security firm HBGary. Now, the hacktivist collective is claiming that it has access to Stuxnet, the powerful worm that is believed to have been developed by the U.S. and its allies to disrupt Iran's nuclear program. It's unclear if Anonymous plans to actually use Stuxnet, but a spokesperson from Symantec told the Guardian it would be very ...

Some enemies of WikiLeaks are not afraid to play dirty. Pro-WikiLeaks hackers (but not the organization itself) gained access to internal e-mails from HBGary Federal, a California-based security company that was allegedly offering to help companies like Bank of America (the rumored target of the next WikiLeaks dump) discredit the organization through falsified documents. One of the e-mails hackers ...

Ars Technica's Nate Anderson has put together a long and fascinating report on the tumultuous recent history of Aaron Barr -- the security expert who successfully infiltrated Anonymous, and then got burned, after running to the FBI with his findings. Based on e-mails he sent before beginning his mission, it's clear that Barr's motives, from the very beginning, were profit-driven. A social media ...