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HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr Steps Down
Gunkerty Jeb writes "Embattled CEO Aaron Barr says he is stepping down from his post at HBGary Federal to allow the company to move on after members of the online mischief making group Anonymous hacked into HBGary Federal's computer network and published tens of thousands of company e-mail messages on the Internet. In an interview with Threatpost, Barr said that he is stepping down to allow himself and the company he ran to move on in the wake of the high profile hack."
OWN GOAL?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u88AOoYAOQE
oh man , my BFF Gary is stepping down.
This will go down in history as an awesome example of the firepower of the fully armed and operational battlestation.
and rehab, and the blahblahlblah usual excuses that mean "I don't know the first thing about security, but I have insider connections and can con almost anyone, especially other ignorant stupid CEOs. It's been a wonderful, lucrative experience! God bless, see you all in my new venture, securitized subprime mortgage loans!"
“I need to focus on [...] rebuilding my reputation."
Hey, it's never too late to start.
Parity: What to do when the weekend comes.
And nothing of value was lost...
Excuse him folks, it's going to be a while before he can get that foot out of his mouth.
Please don't read my sig.
FLAWLESS VICTORY
Ha. HaHa. HaHaHaHa. Sure, some nasty Anon broke the law here. But if anybody ever had it coming, it was this guy.
I learned this years ago: Don't get into an online pissing contest. Just don't. Both sides inevitably lose.
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
You must be thinking of little people rules...
"Stepping down" is basically the corporate-speak equivalent of seppuku. They get rid of his disgraced ass and in return, he gets to pretend he still has some dignity.
He partially owned the company. you can't fire someone like that. you have to buy them out.
Which means he got a nice golden parachute too. Hopefully it was real gold and they kick him out of a large building with it.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
From the argh-tickle.
"By combining a SQL injection attack on HBGary's Web site with sophisticated social engineering attacks"
Uhm. WHAT?
Sophisticated? I wouldn't call a couple of e-mails from a hijacked account asking to back-door a server "sophisticated".
What the HBGary hack was:
Basic SQL Injection
Weak passwords
Password Re-use
SIMPLE social engineering
Your basic molotov cocktail of fail.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
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same bullshit goes on in my company: big manager boasting security - justifying any expenses - but are not able to remember more than one password at a time and reuse it everywhere!
This butthead should be in rehab, not running a "serious" security company...
Sometimes, real fast is almost as good as real-time.
I'll bet he is going back to school. Learn some basics.
We should start a new Slashdot and return control to the geeks. It actually wouldn't be that hard to get some users to
He partially owned the company. you can't fire someone like that. you have to buy them out.
That depends on how much a portion he owned. If, say, he owned 15% of the shares and the other 85% of the shareholders say GTFO then that's just what he has to do. He'll still own shares but he won't be CEO or what have you.
If God forks the Universe every time you roll a die, he'd better have a damned good memory.
Emperor Palpatine: "I felt a great disturbance in the dark side, my apprentice, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in joy and were suddenly heard by those in power. I fear something terrible has happened."
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
>Leavy said that the company's partners had been supportive following the hack. The proposals for Bank of America and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce were simply responses to requests for services that HBGary had received. "HBGary Federal is a services company and they were asked to develop proposals," she told Threatpost.
I see. That fact that the "services" are illegal, immoral, and unethical really doesn't enter in, because they're a service company and this is a service. Sort of like a hit man is just an HR professional specializing in staff reduction services.
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
More likely, he doesn't get the same benefits for "quitting" that he would get for being "fired".
And the money. They always shower them in big piles of money.
How was this man allowed to keep his job after his shenanigans were made public?
They couldn't fire him without getting the whole board together and that was cumbersome. Didn't you read the chat logs?
"I don't care about the Constitution!" --Bill O'Reilly, November 17, 2009
You know in many ways I'm starting to wonder if the rise of Anonymous could be considered a legitimate political/social phenomena linked to the recession and how people feel increasingly left out of the political process/system because of big money buying our congress' collective ears? Widespread piracy is widely considered by many to be an economic indicator that the market has become too one-sided, maybe this is the political equivalent?
I saw a post suggesting they may be targeting the Koch Brothers for their involvement in the current Wisconsin/multi-state effort to completely bust Unions. Is this finally the people striking back? Not to say I'm not thankful someone's taking the time to respond, but oh what a sad thing it says about humanity that we have to resort to these types of solutions to keep from getting completely steamrolled by the almighty dollar?
A little background info: Aaron Barr was the CEO of HBGary Federal, a smaller company made by HBGary to do government contracts. HBGary only owned about 15% of HBGary Federal. However, both companies shared username/password information for Aaron Barr, which is why Anonymous easily hacked into HBGary after hacking into HBGary Federal. Anonymous released the HBGary Federal e-mails immediately, and then later on released HBGary's e-mails. My comment: Before Anonymous released HBGary's emails, Penny (the president of HBGary) actually made a deal with Anonymous: If Aaron Barr was fired and his salary given to the Bradley Manning defense fund, then Anonymous would not release the HBGary e-mails. If only Barr had stepped down a bit earlier, HBGary could've possibly saved millions of dollars.
You have that backwards. Most likely, he gets all the benefits from "quitting", and would get none for being "fired" (though these days CxOs are so brazen in their greed that their employment contracts probably give them benefits even if they were fired for raping children in the company boardroom).
I would think that his antics would be more suited for one of the **AA's, which of course is more in line with the DEM's. But whatever.
The real Sig captains the Northwestern. This one captains
"I'm getting the hell out of here because I got exposed as a fraud that really knows nothing."
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
May I recommend also shuttering the company and all the companies like it, and the US government? How is it okay to use intimidation to try to prevent the release of incriminating documents? Moving on from that should mean reversing course. Does anybody care that the US government operates with fewer scruples than the mafia? This is insane.
go to the archive of their emails and do a keyword search for MMO
though these days CxOs are so brazen in their greed that their employment contracts probably give them benefits even if they were fired for raping children in the company boardroom
When did that become a firing-worthy offense for these guys?
I am officially gone from
just kidding
the only reason it went against scientology is because scientology was attacking random people all over the internet with lawsuits. that is why anonymous fought back.
anonymous is never going to go after drug lords or human traffickers or etc. they go after people who @#$$ with them. The HBGary guy was going after them directly, trying to 'out' them by scraping facebook etc. that is why they went at him.
A definite shoe-in for the Cyber Security Czar position.
He shot Alexander Humilton.
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So basically, I shouldn't use any freedoms because that might give fuel to someone wishing to limit them?
So gay people, don't be gay or people might forbid it.
A spine, you need one. Or afraid if you get one, people will forbid it?
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Frankly I lost all respect for the guy back when the sonuvabitch shot Alexander Humilton.
Please have an orderly shut down of your company. The internets haz spoken. Disobey at your peril.
They could find and prosecute every single person even tertiarily involved and the hive would simply get stronger.
We are all Anonymous.
It just goes to show that those who know do not speak and those that speak, do not know. Actions always prove stronger than words.
The mind conceives, the body achieves, the spirit manifests.
You just posted THIS on SLASHDOT???
you had me at #!
Barr still doesn't grasp the obvious fact that he did Bad Things, meaning things that aren't ethical and damage rather than serve the Common Good. Good riddance, psychopath. Yet another corporate criminal who got off easy when he should have got the guillotine.
Book and movies deals. Made for tv movies about his now public divorce. Paid interviews. Perversely a paid consultant about what NOT to do.... The dude is going to be a millionaire.
I posted this as anon coward a few times, nobody seemed to notice.
This whole shabby experience will set up this sleaze bag for life.
I am very small, utmostly microscopic.
Unless Anonymous grabs him by the ankles and drags him straight to hell.
--Udo.
Useful summary information might include answers to, what's an HBGary Federal? Maybe something about what was in the emails that caused embarrassment. Those kinds of things.
Their they're doing there hair.
thats the type of drug lords im referring to.
The way to level the playing field against large corporations is for citizens to form their own corporations. For example a "Buyer's Cooperative" which would use the buying power of it's members to negotiate better deals.
Not so sure about that. If they didn't already have protective clauses against negligence built-in to their partnership agreement, they might be able to wrest the shares away from him with the threat of litigation for his negligence.
cat
Uh huh.
I would suggest that Anonymous stay behind the keyboard. In the real world messing with a bunch of Iraq war veterans might not go as well as their online exploits.
I am very small, utmostly microscopic.
Not before the video shows up on the internet.
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
What came first, the powerful drug lord, or the drug laws?
Before the drug laws, the biggest "threat" from drugs was some snake oil salesman selling you an addictive "cure all" based on ridiculous claims.
Now we have huge professional companies who specialize in that legally.... and whole classes of illegal drugs with their violent drug lords, who behead kids. Take away their drugs and prostitution and what have you got? A few violent thugs who would be a minor nuissance going around shaking down stores for protection money, and other more risky, less profitable crime.
Certainly they are bad guys but... they are worst for the power they are given, for the huge market that was left for them to rule.
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"