The style WikiLeaks has set a new standard: wars are fought against the secrecy now blows of hackers. Last was at the expense of security consulting firm that works for the U.S. government and revealed that he saw on the Web and the eyes of all of its plan to discredit the site created by Julian Assange.
The hacker group Anonymous-activists, the spotlight in the past few days in attacks on government websites of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and Mediaset, has scored another coup: the "hacktivists" have been introduced in the e-mail the company's information security HBGary Federal, have stolen tens of thousands of messages and have them published online.
But what HBGary, such as his alleged crimes and what is contained in these messages? The new front was opened on February 4 when Aaron Barr, CEO of the company, created to provide advice on computer security aimed at the needs of the Defense Department, FBI, the Navy and other agencies of the U.S.
government said In an interview with the Financial Times that he had infiltrated the group Anonymous and identified many of its members. This "company" would have been the focus of a public lecture, then deleted. True or false it was the threat, the group felt pride and point it was unleashed.
The company website is unreachable since then, the twitter account of Barr was stolen and there have been published personal information such as address and phone number, but most have been published on a website available to all ten thousands of internal company e-mail. Some of the emails were not harmless: it turns out to be a real counter-portrait.
The company had proposed a law firm strategy, it seems ever to defend the Bank of America and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced by the revelations of WikiLeaks: HBGary, in collaboration with two other company, filed false documents leaked to then challenge the site Assange. Another idea was to threaten to damage the careers of journalists more closely linked to WikiLeaks.
Aaron Barr said he did not expect such a reaction: "I'm trying to limit damage to my image, now I have warned all my email contacts. For the rest wait for events." The reactions were swift: "Piano abominable," said a representative of Bank of America. Journalists and bloggers do not stop and continue efforts to find unattractive, if not actual crimes, including the activities of Federal HBGary.
For example, the company would be developing a rootkit (a virus that can steal passwords or other information) is not detectable. Or, would a copy of the worm Stuxnet and, according to the complaint CrowdLeaks site, wants to use it for their own purposes rather than trying to render it harmless.
Thus, while attention to scoop WikiLeaks is falling, the cyber war continues under the plaster, makes less noise, but no sign of stopping.
The hacker group Anonymous-activists, the spotlight in the past few days in attacks on government websites of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and Mediaset, has scored another coup: the "hacktivists" have been introduced in the e-mail the company's information security HBGary Federal, have stolen tens of thousands of messages and have them published online.
But what HBGary, such as his alleged crimes and what is contained in these messages? The new front was opened on February 4 when Aaron Barr, CEO of the company, created to provide advice on computer security aimed at the needs of the Defense Department, FBI, the Navy and other agencies of the U.S.
government said In an interview with the Financial Times that he had infiltrated the group Anonymous and identified many of its members. This "company" would have been the focus of a public lecture, then deleted. True or false it was the threat, the group felt pride and point it was unleashed.
The company website is unreachable since then, the twitter account of Barr was stolen and there have been published personal information such as address and phone number, but most have been published on a website available to all ten thousands of internal company e-mail. Some of the emails were not harmless: it turns out to be a real counter-portrait.
The company had proposed a law firm strategy, it seems ever to defend the Bank of America and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced by the revelations of WikiLeaks: HBGary, in collaboration with two other company, filed false documents leaked to then challenge the site Assange. Another idea was to threaten to damage the careers of journalists more closely linked to WikiLeaks.
Aaron Barr said he did not expect such a reaction: "I'm trying to limit damage to my image, now I have warned all my email contacts. For the rest wait for events." The reactions were swift: "Piano abominable," said a representative of Bank of America. Journalists and bloggers do not stop and continue efforts to find unattractive, if not actual crimes, including the activities of Federal HBGary.
For example, the company would be developing a rootkit (a virus that can steal passwords or other information) is not detectable. Or, would a copy of the worm Stuxnet and, according to the complaint CrowdLeaks site, wants to use it for their own purposes rather than trying to render it harmless.
Thus, while attention to scoop WikiLeaks is falling, the cyber war continues under the plaster, makes less noise, but no sign of stopping.
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