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Anonymous Strikes Back

In an interesting turn of events, HPGary’s COO Aaron Barr claimed to have infiltrated Anonymous through false personas and social media, further claiming that he now knew the identities of Anonymous’ leaders. He then bragged that he would expose the information at an upcoming Security B-Sides Conference.

And how did Anonymous react to Barr’s braggadocio?

Anonymous hacked HPGary’s website, replacing it with an Anonymous image and “greeting” that detailed their actions.

They begin with, “Greetings HPGAry (a computer “security” company), then go on to say:

“Your recent claims of “infiltrating” Anonymous amuse us, and so do your attempts at using Anonymous as a means to garner press attention for yourself. How’s this for attention?

You brought this upon yourself. You’ve tried to bite at the Anonymous hand, and now the Anonymous hand is bitch-slapping you in the face.”

Anonymous then went on to download HPGary’s email, uploading 66,000 emails to Pirate Bay, then hacked Barr’s iPad, email and Twitter accounts, posting Barr’s address, cell phone and social security number, and leaving various taunting and offensive messages.

In another ironic touch, Anonymous also posted the information on themselves—information which HPGary was going to sell to the FBI. Anonymous noted that the information gathered by HPGary is either publicly available Anonymous’ IRC networks or plain “nonsense.”

Daily Kos reported that Anonymous also deleted the firm’s back-up files.

According to Wired, Anonymous also managed to hack HPGary CEO Greg Hoglund’s Rootkit.com, “an online forum dedicated to analyzing and developing stealthy ‘rootkit’ malware technology.” They did so by gaining access to Hoglund’s email, and posing as Hoglund in order to manipulate a “Rootkit.com administrator named Jussi Jaakonaho into giving them root access to Rootkit.”

At the time of this posting, HPGary’s website is still offline.

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basically this guy, called "x", releases lies in newspapers saying he is collecting the real names of the members of Anon and and that he will shut down all of Anon's operations.

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But a statement from Anonymous claimed the presentation showed how sections of corporate America were "entangled in highly dubious and most likely illegal activities, including a smear campaign against WikiLeaks, its supportive journalists, and adversaries of the US Chamber of Commerce and Bank of America".

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For one thing, it turns out that the firms involved are large, legitimate and serious, and do substantial amounts of work for both the US government and the nation's largest private corporations."

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citricacidx said:

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/375428/february-24-2011/corporate-hacker-tries-to-take-down-wikileaks?xrs=eml_col

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bigmike7104 said:

http://www.hulu.com/the-colbert-report

also projectfreetv is a good site to get free episodes

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citricacidx said:

how do you push a thread to the 2nd page? It's not like you can actively force people to not read and reply to a thread

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By replying to other threads