HBGary: tangling with ungroup Anonymous
p2pnet view P2P | Freedom:- “Payback is a bitch, ain’t it?” – says Randy Quaid (right) as he flies his jet into an alien space ship in the Independence Day movie.
Aaron Barr and Greg Hoglund are discovering the same thing after tangling with ungroup Anonymous.
Hoglund is the front man for HBGary, an insecure security company which says it provides “classified services” to the “Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community” and other Obama government agencies “to meet their unique requirement”.
Barr has a similar position with HBGary Feral — sorry, Federal — and he made the mistake of claiming he’d cleverly penetrated Anonymous and filched the names of its organisers.
Sadly for him and Hoglund, and all who work with and for them (including the Financial Times which first broke the story of Barr’s allegations), Anonymous is Amorphous. There are no organisers: see, p2pnet talks with Operation Payback – David becomes Goliath; and, p2pnet talks with AnonNews – Freedom of speech.
As a direct result, HBGary was hacked by a 16-year-old Anon and some 50,000 emails posted as torrents for all the world to see.
‘sophisticated computer virus’
Hoglund couldn’t leave well enough alone: he’d sort Anonymous out and show them who’s boss. But as p2pnet posted yesterday, his efforts resulted in a further 27,606 emails ending up on The Pirate Bay, to wit, from the HBGary Email Viewer >>>
- (new) greg@hbgary.com – Greg Hoglund – 27,606 emails (torrent)
- aaron@hbgary.com – Aaron Barr – 16,906 emails (torrent)
- ted@hbgary.com – Ted Vera – 12,134 emails (torrent)
- phil@hbgary.com – Phil Wallisch – 15,156 emails (torrent)
Total: 71,800 emails
Now, “Anonymous claims to have access to the sophisticated computer virus reportedly developed as a joint Israeli-US cyber attack against Iran’s nuclear facilities”, says the Guardian, going on >>>
Anonymous says it has obtained details of the Stuxnet worm from the emails of HBGary, a US security company the loose hacker collective attacked earlier this month.”
It is not yet clear whether Anonymous plans to deploy the computer virus, but last week the group signalled an intention to attack Iranian government websites in support of a planned green movement rally in Tehran.
However, security experts told the Guardian on Monday that even though Anonymous does have access to parts of Stuxnet, it does not control the crucial code enabling it to attack Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant – an attack Russia’s Nato ambassador said could potentially trigger a ‘new Chernobyl’.”
… the first internet-based superconsciousness …
It’s inconceivable to the powers that used to be that a group of people, young and old, could take matters into their own hands without someone leading them, and it’s a dead certainty others will try to penetrate the Anonymous Global Command.
Which doesn’t exist.
Under French photographer ‘murdered’ in Tunisia, in a Reader’s Write, A.Non posted this >>>
Anonymous is the first internet-based superconsciousness. Anonymous is a group, in the sense that a flock of birds is a group. How do you know they’re a group? Because they’re travelling in the same direction. At any given moment, more birds could join, leave, peel off in another direction entirely.
That’s Doc, an Anon quoted in a 2008 Baltimore City Paper story slugged Anonymous Takes On Scientology (and Doesn’t [sic] Afraid of Anything), since repeated far and wide online.
Meanwhile, HBGary was looking for bytes and ink when it ‘exposed’ Anonymous.
It got it.
Stay tuned.
16-year-old Anon – HBGary: nailed by a 16-year-old, February 12, 2011
p2pnet – 27,000 HBGary emails, as promised: AnonLeaks, February 13, 2011
Guardian – Anonymous claims to have Stuxnet access, February 14, 2011
Stuxnet worm – Stuxnet, Siemens and Iran nuclear centrifuges, January 17, 2011
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February 14th, 2011 at 3:22 pm
However, security experts told the Guardian on Monday that even though Anonymous does have access to parts of Stuxnet, it does not control the crucial code enabling it to attack Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant – an attack Russia’s Nato ambassador said could potentially trigger a ‘new Chernobyl’.”
This is what the US et. al. will use to claim Anonymous are criminals intent on total anarchy and would risk tens of thousands of lives (if it were even possible to trigger a Chernobyl).
However, if you notice some of the email quotes “redacted” is used frequently because Anonymous is not stupid and would never reveal something that would result in death, same as wikileaks. So there is no fear with the Stuxnet work/virus that Anonymous would try to trigger an attack against Iran’s nuclear plants.
However, the CIA would. And who has the law on their ass and who gets away with everything? The law applies to everyone equally.
While DDoS is considered a cybercrime, no one was hurt and Anonymous would never sink to the level of many governments and execute plans that would result in physical harm to people.
February 14th, 2011 at 9:50 pm
Forgive my complete ignorance but is it possible that the Stuxnet worm could be modified for other uses?
February 15th, 2011 at 3:16 am
I am timing out on the following links from this page, why? I was able to view them earlier. By the Way – What do you Hacker’s know about SAP?
* (new) greg@hbgary.com – Greg Hoglund – 27,606 emails (torrent)
* aaron@hbgary.com – Aaron Barr – 16,906 emails (torrent)
* ted@hbgary.com – Ted Vera – 12,134 emails (torrent)
* phil@hbgary.com – Phil Wallisch – 15,156 emails (torrent)
February 15th, 2011 at 1:11 pm
Hey can someone help? I am still timing out attempting to load the emails from this page. I run off of Comcast cable modem, but for some reason it is not allowing me to access the emails. You would think that my computer is being used by these spy agencies, and/or corporations as a Testing Facility to see if they can either take you offline, take command and control over, and/or slow down your ability to view various links. It is an ongoing problem, with all three of the descriptions, since 2006 – although I have one of their fastest speeds. Go Figure! A ONE STOP SHOP – using a progressive, non computer savy TARGET, a nobody like me, as they build these cyber-spy agencies/companies – making tons of money in the process….while I go broke.