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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. Well that was a load of crap by AmonTheMetalhead · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Check out Ars Technica's coverage, much much better

    1. Re:Well that was a load of crap by Carewolf · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Isn't this essential the Ars Technica's article translated to german, and then translated back to english?

  2. Re:Anonymous by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They're not a Hydra, which is a monolithic monster with no single termination point and self-repair to incremental attacks.

    They're a stand-alone complex, which is not even a single entity to begin with.

    Which makes them even harder to kill, and, to established powers they oppose, even more fearsome. (OTOH, to the extent they can be developed and manipulated to suit one's ends, they're a most powerful weapon. You can bet the shadowier sides of governments have any number of would-be Kazundo Gouda types analyzing the phenomenon.)

  3. Re:Lots of Security Holes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Interestingly, HBGary Federal never won any actual government contracts.

  4. Re:Lots of Security Holes by cpscotti · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Out of curiosity, who says? I really doubt that if there where any contracts, they would be left unclassified.



    Duhh..... Well, I think all the data Anonymous "de-"classified would contain any hint to that if that was the case!
    We're not talking about all the things they "left unclassified" here; someone force-declassified everything!