HBGary Hack In Depth 65
Udo Schmitz writes "Heise's UK site has the English translation of an article from the latest issue of their magazine c't about Anonymous's HBGary hack. It shows that there was much more involved than just social engineering to get passwords, and how anonymous evolved following OpTunisia and OpEgypt."
Re:Well that was a load of crap (Score:5, Informative)
It's here, in the Slashdot story that was already posted about 3 weeks ago:
http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/0041208/Anatomy-of-the-HBGary-Hack [slashdot.org]
Re:Well that was a load of crap (Score:4, Informative)
It's here, in the Slashdot story that was already posted about 3 weeks ago:
http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/0041208/Anatomy-of-the-HBGary-Hack [slashdot.org]
I missed that. Well ... what would /. be without dupes ...
Another one:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/how-one-security-firm-tracked-anonymousand-paid-a-heavy-price.ars [arstechnica.com]
Re:What a waste of time (Score:5, Informative)
Actually, you overplay your attempt to downplay HBGary Federal. While they never actually won any government contracts, they did have credibility with the US government, they did have access to a lot of "insider" stuff, and they were in negotiations with other contractors to provide some rather big-time stuff. They enjoyed the backing of their parent company, a major figure in the corporate world.
Note that I do NOT claim that thier credibility was justified, nor do I claim that their wares were anything more than vaporware - but they were much, much more than some upstart company operating on less than a shoestring in someone's garage with only 4 employees.