Two Members of LulzSec Plead Guilty to Cyber Crimes

Two members of the hacker group Lulz Security LulzSec pleaded guilty today to taking part in a cyber crime spree that launched attacks against Web sites belonging to law enforcement, corporations and media companies. Ryan Cleary, 20, of Wickford, Essex and Jake Davis, 19, of Lerwick, Shetland...

HBGary Federal One Year Later !

HBGary Federal One Year Later ! Doug Vitale sharing and interesting read with our Readers from his Blog About HBGary Federal. In February 2011, the loosely knit collective of hacktivists known as Anonymous successfully compromised the corporate network of HBGary Federal HBG Fed, a company that...

2011: Wait, What?

The security industry can be a giant repetitive, follow-the-loser echo chamber of unoriginal thoughts, familiar flaws and copycat theories. But if ever there was a year in which folks could stand back and look at what’s gone on and say, what in the hell just happened, 2011 was it. So rather than...

What will 2012 bring? We can't know for sure

Stuxnet and the specter of sophisticated, state-sponsored attacks were still dominating the news a year ago, as 2010 ended and we welcomed the New Year. Soon enough, however, there would be a new phenomenon to contend with: hacktivists. As the attack on HBGary Federal and Sony showed, faceless...

Aaron Barr's Strange Trip To (Occupy) Wall Street

It was an “Elvis Meets Nixon” kind of moment: former HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr sporting blue hair and posing in front of a van sporting the Wikileaks logo down at New York’s Zuccotti Park, home of the Occupy Wall Street protest. What was he doing there? It’s complicated. In an interview with...

Five Questions About Aaron Barr's DEFCON (by Aaron Barr)

Editor’s note: Finding Aaron Barr at this year’s DEFCON hacker conference in Las Vegas was like a giant game of “Where’s Waldo.” Given the events of the past year, you can hardly blame him for keeping a low profile. First there was the attack on him and his then-employer, HBGary Federal, his...

Legal Threat Pushes Former HBGary Federal CEO Out Of DEFCON

Former HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr says he will withdraw from a planned appearance at the DEFCON conference in the face of threatened legal action over his plans to take part in a panel discussion there. Barr notified DEFCON organizers on Wednesday that he was withdrawing from the Aug. 6 panel...

AntiSec Crew Attacks FBI Contractor IRC Federal

Members of the loosely organized group conducting the AntiSec hacking campaign have compromised a company called IRC Federal, which does contracting for the FBI and other federal agencies, posting a large trove of information online in retaliation for what the group says is IRC Federal’s record o...

Barr Unbowed Part II: Setting the Record Straight on HBGary Federal

This is the second in a two-part interview with Aaron Barr, the former CEO of HBGary Federal In the second half of his exclusive interview with Threatpost, former HBGary CEO Aaron Barr – speaking before the arrest of alleged Lulzsec member Ryan Cleary in the UK – talked about the likely law...

Barr Unbowed: Former HBGary Federal CEO says We Need to Learn from LulzSec

This is the first in a two-part interview with Aaron Barr, the former CEO of HBGary Federal Each of us has made mistakes in our lives – woeful errors that we’ve been forced to learn from at great personal cost. Blessedly, those painful experiences are typically private affairs. Tears are spilled...

HBGary: Silence, Sloppy Reporting Hyped Anonymous Hack

After months of almost total silence, security firm HBGary issued a statement to counter what it claims were inaccurate media reports about a February security breach that spilled thousands of e-mail messages onto the Internet. The letter, published on HBGary’s Web site and positioned as an “Open...

Anonymous Publishes Bank of America Documents, Alleges Fraud

The hacker collective known as Anonymous published a collection of e-mail messages that allege mortgage fraud at U.S. banking giant Bank of America. The documents – more than two dozen e-mail messages – are from Balboa Insurance Group, a Bank of America subsidiary that provides insurance for auto...

HBGary Federal's Aaron Barr Resigns After being Exposed by Anonymous Hackers !

HBGary Federal's Aaron Barr Resigns After being Exposed by Anonymous Hackers ! Aaron Barr's time in the security industry's spotlight may have finally, mercifully ended. On Monday, the much-tormented chief executive of HBGary Federal announced that he has resigned from his position, three weeks...

Lessons to learn from the HBGary Federal hack !

The Anonymous attack on HBGary may have amused some who enjoyed the sight of a security firm left embarrassed and exposed, but it should send a shiver down the spine of any IT administrator responsible for securing their own company. Because can you honestly put your hand on your heart and say a...

HOLD — HBGary Federal News…

HBGary Federal, the beleagured security startup that has been the target of the online mischief making group Anonymous for the last week said on Monday that it was ceasing operations | its CEO Aaron Barr was stepping down. The consulting firm, a wholly owned subsidiary of HBGary Inc., had been...

HBGary Emails A Sweet Valentine For Social Engineers

SAN FRANCISCO– The news keeps getting worse for security firm HBGary Federal. Members of the online mischief-making group Anonymous posted another cache of 20,000 company e-mails Sunday, following a similar disclosure last week. But the real damage from the leak may be yet to come, as sophisticat...

Exposed : HBGary wanted to suppress Stuxnet research !

It is no secret that in recent days, Anonymous Operatives have released a cache of HBGary Federal internal emails to the public. Crowdleaks has discovered that within these communications, Aaron Barr received a copy of Stuxnet a computer worm that targets the types of industrial control systems I...

Anonymous Hackers Attacks its Own Investigating Group !

If you were missing some of the Dan-Brown-novel-in-real-life action, Anonymous is aback to ample you up. This time, they tweeted that they managed to auspiciously drudge into the website of one of its investigators, HBGary Federal as able-bodied as its CEO, Aaron Barr's Twitter account. And like...

HBGary Federal hacked and exposed by Anonymous !

As the coin was tossed to kick off Superbowl XLV, Anonymous unleashed their anger at a security firm who had been investigating their membership. HBGary Federal had been working on unmasking their identities in cooperation with an FBI investigation into the attacks against companies who were...

Anonymous Hackers Pay Back FBI Snitch with 50,000 Leaked Emails !

Right now you can download a 4.7 gigabyte book abounding of about 50,000 emails baseborn from a computer aegis able called Aaron Barr. That's what happens aback you cantankerous the hacking aggregate Anonymous. Hackers from Anonymous, best-known for attacks on Scientology and Wikileaks detractors...