holy shit
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/feb/07/anonymous-attacks-us-security-company-hbgary

The loose hacker collective Anonymous says it has taken revenge on a US security company whose principal claimed to have penetrated the group and identified some of its key people.

They hacked the Twitter account of Aaron Barr, the chief executive of HBGary, and sent out a series of angry tweets while many Americans were watching the Super Bowl match on Sunday night, allegedly including Barr's social security number and address, and his mobile phone number.

The tweets link to torrents of the company's emails. Members of the group also put up a brutal set of claims: "Anonymous has:

"entire control of all emails for the company of hbgary.com. we have full admin control of

"hbgaryfederal.com. we have wordpress control of hbgary.com

"all emails will be put up in a torrent.

"full access to all their finincials

"their ssns [social security numbers]

"their w2s [US tax reporting statement]

"their 1099s [US tax identification certificate]

"their software products

"their malware data (although Anonymous rm'd [deleted] their entire terabyte of data sorry)

"their backup server was wiped.

"access to their pbx system via 8x8.com

"control of their support server and their clients logins

"root access to rootkit.com, personal website of greg hoglund

"aaron barr's ipad is now wiped"

Barr could not be contacted to find out how many of these details were correct. The HBGary site had been replaced by a placeholder this morning.

2/8/2011 10:43:06 PM

damn son

2/8/2011 10:47:52 PM

Quote :

"CABNIT SOMETHING MADE OR FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE"

2/8/2011 10:47:58 PM

I have no idea what all of this means but:

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"Super Bowl match"

[Edited on February 8, 2011 at 10:52 PM. Reason : huh]

2/8/2011 10:51:49 PM

shit just got real son

2/8/2011 10:52:20 PM

who cares, we were busy with watching ads

2/8/2011 10:54:50 PM

hacked twitter


http://blogs.forbes.com/parmyolson/2011/02/07/victim-of-anonymous-attack-speaks-out/

Victim Of Anonymous Attack Speaks
douche bag victim

Barr is the CEO of a tiny software security firm HBGary Federal based in Washington D.C., and had recently been perusing Facebook and IRC (chat) channels under a fake alias to gather covert research on Anonymous. Then he (sort of) took his findings public: Barr was quoted in the Financial Times a few days ago as saying he had uncovered names of senior figures of Anonymous, and denying he would deliver them to the police.

Still, several members of Anonymous didn’t like the story. As the Super Bowl was getting underway last night, a subset of the group posted Barr’s cell, home address and social security number through his own, hacked, Twitter account. He has yet to regain control.

One of the five Anonymous members carrying out the attacks (it doesn’t take many) told me they were galvanized after finding out from Barr’s emails that he had, in fact, been planning to meet the FBI this morning and was planning to try and negotiate a sale of his information on Anonymous; namely, a 23-page document purporting to show names and addresses of Anonymous members.

The Anonymous member said they had recovered the document, but instead of destroying it, posted a link to it on Barr’s Twitter feed, saying the names were nonsense.

Barr counters that it’s not his real research. “It’s an old copy of my research document. It’s not the current copy. Like any research it gets more accurate.” He also denies that he was planning to try and sell personal information on Anonymous to the FBI, which has an open investigation into the group. “I did have a meeting with them this morning,” he says. But while it was always likely to have something to do with the FT story, he adds that he hadn’t known what it was to be about. “They called me.”

Why did he talk to the Financial Times in the first place? Barr says he had been preparing to give a talk at the B-Sides security conference in San Francisco on Feb. 14 about information security in social media, and he wanted to drum up some publicity ahead of time to help spur the debate.

“Do I regret it now? Sure,” he says, with a short laugh. “I’m getting personal threats from people, and I have two kids. I have two four-year old kids. Nothing is worth that.”

The threats have come through Facebook including one commenter who wrote: “I’m gonna find out all the people that you know and cause them pain. Death is too good for you.” Last night Barr also received about half a dozen phone calls to his cell. He only answered one of them – a woman who quickly hung up. The rest were voicemails: “They didn’t actually speak,” he says. “One was singing something. Some of them just hung up. One guy just had weird noises in the background.”

To his credit, Barr did not expect Anonymous’ reaction to be quite so ferocious. “I had expected some potential retribution,” he says. “I knew some folks would take my research as some kind of personal attack which it absolutely was not. I thought they might take down our Web site with a DDoS attack. I did not prepare for them to do what they did.”

For now Barr is working on damage control to his reputation as well as trying to make sense of what’s happened. “I just feel a bit exhausted by the whole thing,” he says. His biggest problem is the thousands of personal emails that have been released into cyberspace.

“I’m going to contact people I’ve exchanged e-mails with and just tell them what’s going on. The rest I’ll deal with as it comes,” he says.

Barr adds that Anonymous is also not quite done with him. “They’re trying to pop my home router. I’m watching IP traffic and they’re trying to get my home box,” he says. “So I just unplugged it.”

2/8/2011 10:57:18 PM

facebook and twitter is useless.

2/8/2011 11:03:29 PM

these guys even released a press release leading up to the events that transpired and its such a hilarious read

http://anonnews.org/?p=press&a=item&i=377
Anonymous Concedes Defeat

A recent article in the Financial Times (click to read) cites a certain Aaron Barr of the “security services” firm HBGay Federal (amirite?) as claiming to have discovered the identities of Anonymous’ operating leadership and founder, with this having been accomplished in large part by an infiltration of our entirely secret IRC server anonops.ru and in particular our ultra-clasified channels #opegypt, #optunisia, and, of course, #reporters, which itself is the most secret of all.

The following message was relayed to all Anons possessing at least 30 degrees of initiate status (17 in Scotland) or their equivalent in reddit karma, and is being leaked to the laity in an effort to gain their useless sympathy:

URGENT WARNING TO ALL ANONONYMOUS HACKTIVISTS:

Mr. Barr has successfully broken through our over 9000 proxy field and into our entirely non-public and secret insurgent IRC lair, where he then smashed through our fire labyrinth with vigor, collected all the gold rings on the way, opened a 50 silver key chest to find Anon’s legendary hackers on steroids password.

As Mr. Barr has discovered in spite of our best efforts, Anonymous was founded by Q last Thursday at the guilded Bilderberg Hotel after a tense meeting with one Morrowind mod collection, which itself includes the essential Morrowind Comes Alive 5.2 as well as several retexturing packs, all of which seem to lower one’s FPS unless one has also installed the latest Risc Architecture framework and thus obtained the killer refresh rate that is the right of all world citizens, except for noted heterosexual Tom Cruise.

In addition to the sudden disappearance of Anonymous leader Q, Anonymous co-founder Justin Bieber also disappeared just before his top-secret mission to Eritrea to offer physical succour to the rebels, suggesting that Mubarak is in our base, eating our Cheetos, likely with military support authorized by Hill Dawg. All of this comes at a low point for the Official Anonymous Organization, Inc. and its valued shareholders; several Anons had already lost their Fallout New Vegas saved games in the unwarranted and faggy raids perpetrated by the U.S. federales.

[user]At this point, it is safe to assume that the underground server sites at the North Pole have been compromised as well. Back up all porn drives now, because the super secret P2P centralized distribution server of Backdoor Sluts 9 is presumed to be immediately threatened.[/user] Male Anons have been commanded to switch back to traditional tentacle porn while femanons, or “Rei Ayanami wannabes,” continue to be shared among the Echelon Nine Working Group that has since replaced Owen as sky marshall.

However, David Davidson (who might also be the legendary Ceiling Cat, as rumors have it) so far eludes custody, so all is not lost. Mr Davidson skyped the anonymous leaders from his hideout in Philadelphia to remind them that he was “Never gonna give them up, never gonna let them down”. Meanwhile, the board of directors remains little more than a gin-addled menagerie of puppets.

Despite these setbacks, the planned conference in Vienna is not slated for cancellation, although the buffet may be altered to include fewer Cheetos. The scheduled appearence of Boxxy is a subject of much contention within Anonymous ranks, being an event of considerably greater importance than the 4th return of Raptor Jesus, which itself is older than the internet.

We shall note in conclusion that we like the guy and want to believe him, but we still have to ask: Did Aaron Barr shave and murder Alexander Hamilton in 1993? We’re just asking questions here, people. At any rate, the Pink Horse prophecy will soon be fulfilled.

All Hail Xenu,

-Anonymous

2/8/2011 11:05:23 PM

they need to bring out the big gunzz

2/8/2011 11:43:25 PM

is anon the same thing as 4chan? serious question.

2/8/2011 11:49:04 PM

pretty much, there all faggots

2/8/2011 11:52:45 PM

Lol at these queers hacking during the superbowl.

2/8/2011 11:54:40 PM

Anonymous is spread across several media, including the *chans, æ, and Reddit, along with several forums created specifically for Anonymous; the idea to make this a group name came about from the practice of several imageboards, most notably 4chan, having people post without a username by default, whereupon it would look as if "Anonymous" had made those posts.

[Edited on February 8, 2011 at 11:56 PM. Reason : anonfags lol

2/8/2011 11:56:08 PM

i see dubs on that twitter

2/9/2011 12:12:56 AM

he made them green...

2/9/2011 12:16:52 AM

^^^Changing the color for Anonymous isn't impressing anyone.

2/9/2011 12:23:36 AM

Quote :

"THERE ALL FAGGOTS"

2/9/2011 12:35:52 AM

funny thing is I spelled it rite with the apostrophe and everything, then backspaced it and spelled it incorrectly because it more funnier

[Edited on February 9, 2011 at 12:46 AM. Reason : ]

2/9/2011 12:45:31 AM

HAHAHHAHAHA YOU ARE RIGHT. THAT IS FUNNY!!!! HAHAHHA. SEE I AM LAUGHING BECAUSE IT IS FUNNY!111

2/9/2011 12:48:01 AM

that press release is amazing.

2/9/2011 2:14:55 AM

I didn't read all of it, but I do agree the guy looks like a grade A douchebag. The kind of shit head that would steal billions from rich people... wait... is that a bad thing? I mean I'm not rich...

2/9/2011 2:42:59 AM

Quote :

"SECTION #14 OF"

Quote :

"RULES OF INTERNET"

2/9/2011 4:37:17 AM

Why won't these fucks do anything worthwhile

2/9/2011 7:16:57 AM

because they don't have the skill, knowledge, or drive to do anything "worthwhile"

2/9/2011 7:46:48 AM

so what's the word with the ones the FBI busted for the DDoS on Visa, MC, PayPal a few weeks back?

2/9/2011 8:57:26 AM

Damn son. Don't fuck with The Internets.

Though I must wonder how secure this "security firm" kept their data if it could be so thoroughly compromised in a fairly short time period.

2/9/2011 9:50:46 AM

This whole HBGary thing will be legendary.

2/9/2011 10:22:12 AM

the shit about Section 14 of the Rules of the Internet was great.

Do not argue with trolls — it means that they win

2/9/2011 10:48:25 AM

But you've been arguing with me for seven years!

2/9/2011 10:51:33 AM

Quote :

"Why won't these fucks do anything worthwhile"

They've done quite a few admirable and worthwhile stunts that benefited society.

2/9/2011 10:54:43 AM

I guess this retard learned that if you play with fire you'll get burned.

2/9/2011 10:56:17 AM

^ or if you play with tards you'll get brought down to their level

2/9/2011 10:59:03 AM

true

2/9/2011 11:01:54 AM

The thing with this kind of operation is that some of their targets and reasons have had some validity to them, but I just disagree with their methods. Comes across as pretty childish for some reason.

2/9/2011 11:03:45 AM

dang ya'll - they don't have a tape backup? Or an off-site? I've got about 80% of my customer data on 3 hosts, and mirrored to a total of 4 locations (and we're adding a 5th.) A DNS change and we're back as quickly as it propagates.

The other 20% aren't using our CMS, so they aren't in on the automated backups. They're co-location, but no twice a day like the others.

2/9/2011 11:35:44 AM

^IMO they got the backups too

Anonymous does not forgive

Anonymous does not forget

2/9/2011 11:42:17 AM

If they were smart they have off site backups...but it sounds like they're not that smart, and are also tiny so that doesn't speak towards off site either

im thinking the company is done, or at least due for a name change

2/9/2011 11:45:24 AM

Quote :

"ut you've been arguing with me for seven years!"

2/9/2011 1:40:38 PM

that guy had better pray there's no case in what anon released to the FBI lol

2/9/2011 3:39:50 PM

Quote :

"If they were smart they have off site backups...but it sounds like they're not that smart, and are also tiny so that doesn't speak towards off site either im thinking the company is done, or at least due for a name change"

If they have even a small percentage of a brain they're backed up to tape or something offline. If you don't have offsite backup for your enterprise data you should at the very least have an offline tape set.

2/9/2011 6:16:47 PM

This is the most beautiful thing I have seen in a long time.

The term "PWNT" comes to mind son.

2/9/2011 6:28:52 PM

yes, it is an epic PWNT

2/9/2011 6:30:28 PM

pwnt

2/9/2011 8:56:44 PM

2/10/2011 2:06:49 AM

I just don't see the good cause here. They took down a family man and his company because he was doing his job: finding hackers who have committed crimes. Take down animal abusing punks? Sure. Destroy authority figures who
who are trying to catch you for other crimes you've committed? Well now you're not so good at heart are you.

just a bunch of immature yet skilled hackers who see nothing wrong with ruining a life for the lolz

[Edited on February 10, 2011 at 6:28 AM. Reason : Not counting the 14 year old life failures who can't do shit]

2/10/2011 6:27:39 AM

Quote :

"a family man"

Quote :

"doing his job"

that last one seems like a huggggge stretch. it's not like this guy works for the FBI or something.

2/10/2011 10:47:28 AM

egg on your face dbhawly or whatever your name is

2/28/2011 11:16:55 PM

Quote :

"They took down a family man and his company because he was doing his job"

no, they took him down because he challenged them to

2/28/2011 11:51:47 PM

blah blah blah, some anon 'took down' some guys mini fiefdom, bfd.

something impressive would be to say, get Gaddafi's phone number, or being a uprising in Iran or China.

not this rinkydink crap.

anon has never been about 'good at heart'

3/1/2011 2:29:39 AM