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HBGary Hack In Depth

Posted by timothy on from the injectification-nation dept.

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."

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  1. Lots of Security Holes by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 4, Funny

    HBGary's systems were just riddled with security holes. From URL parameters that weren't scrubbed to straight MD5 password hashing to using the same password for several (and possibly many) accounts on different systems (servers, email, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc). I'm sure glad something as important as our government didn't use their security services. Oh, wait ... D'oh!

  2. corepirate nazis transmit fake video to aliens? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    ALL happy/pink/chubby/well armed/ordained etc... we are in the clip? no surprise there? are we sleek or what?

  3. New villain by proverbialcow · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why do I get the feeling HBGary is just filling the void left by SCO as Slashdot's "villain to post about in the absence of real news"?

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    The only surefire protection against Microsoft infections is abstinence. - The Onion
  4. Re:We Can All Be Anonymous by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The first step of being anonymous would be to not sign your name at the end of a post...

  5. Re:Coons by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Why do you feel that Python is so bad? What do you find wrong with it?"