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HBGary Federal Hacked By Anonymous

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the are-you-anonymous dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As the coin was tossed to kick off Superbowl XLV, Anonymous unleashed their anger at a security firm who had been investigating their membership. HBGary Federal had been working on unmasking their identities in cooperation with an FBI investigation into the attacks against companies who were cutting off WikiLeaks access and financing. Unlike the DDoS attacks for which Anonymous has made headlines in recent months, this incident involved true hacking skills."

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  1. they have a remarkable sense of humour. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    They deleted all the content on his iPad.

    that's beyond hilarious

  2. Re:Sigh by Spad · · Score: 4, Funny

    Unlikely, these guys were probably behind 7 proxies.

  3. Re:hack by haderytn · · Score: 4, Funny

    We should call them...blackhats.

  4. It's all fun and games until you end up in by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Federal pound you in the ass prison. Seriously... It may be a laugh riot for the mob of 15 year old script kiddies to thumb their pimply noses at the suits and squares, and hide behind a "we r legion, lutz!"... but with any criminal conspiracy, the actions of one of the members all are attributable to the rest. All it will take is a few supoenas, some jail time for a few members, and anonymous will go away. No, for reals, yo. It's real brave to participate in a ddos when they can't fathom any consequences for their acts, but once they see other members getting thrown in the hoosegow, the whole "you can't shut us down!" becomes "gee, i hope the community college down the street will admit convicted felons." petty vandals hiding behind anonymity, not a bunch of masked crusaders for great justice.

  5. Re:hack by wisty · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hacker is a shibboleth, like spelling perl in lower case (as opposed to PERL). It lets people know that you are hip to the lingo of hackers.

    I'm not sure what blackhats use.

    Anyway, there's a subsection on wikipedia specifically on computer related shibboleths [1], and "hacker definition controversy" gets its own bloody article [2].

    I'm pretty sure everyone on Slashdot knows, and they just leave it in there to generate meaningless discussions. That's half the point of slashdot.

    [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shibboleths#Shibboleths_in_computer_security
    [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_definition_controversy