{"id":187885,"date":"2011-02-07T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T01:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/02\/07\/this-is-what-you-get-when-you-fist-f-a-cobra\/"},"modified":"2011-02-07T20:21:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T01:21:00","slug":"this-is-what-you-get-when-you-fist-f-a-cobra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/02\/07\/this-is-what-you-get-when-you-fist-f-a-cobra\/","title":{"rendered":"This is What You Get When You Fist F%$# a Cobra \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Complete PWN463!<\/span><\/div>\n

I while back, I mentioned 4Chan<\/a>, I should add the inventive group of people known as Anonymous<\/a> who ofttimes frequent 4Chan:<\/p>\n

Anonymous, the online collective that launched DDoS attacks on Visa, PayPal and others in support of whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks, has brought down the web site of a firm helping the FBI to unmask its members.<\/p>\n

Security services firm HBGary Federal had been helping the Feds to track down the individuals behind a number of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on companies including Amazon, PayPal, Visa, MasterCard, Swiss bank PostFinance and Bank of America, after the firms suspended services to WikiLeaks.<\/p>\n

In a sophisticated attack, Anonymous members hacked into HBGary’s website and posted an image containing a message explaining their actions. In addition, they downloaded over 60,000 messages from the company’s email servers and posted them on The Pirate Bay<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Twitter account of HBGary’s CEO, Aaron Barr, was also compromised and used to tweet a number of offensive messages, as well as his home address, social security number and mobile phone number.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Link to torrent mine, and I make no claims as to the safety or veracity of the data.  I have not downloaded the data myself<\/i>)<\/p>\n

Yeah, and it has also been reported that they deleted HBGary’s backups<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Not only did they pick a fight with Anonymous, but it also appears that they are complete posers as well, who were leaching publicly available names from Facebook and IRC, and trying to sell<\/b> this to the FBI.<\/p>\n

Well, not any more, because, according to the letter that was the HBGary home page (above) they sent the data to the FBI themselves.<\/p>\n

What a bunch of complete wankers, Aaron Barr and company that is, I have nothing but the utmost respect for Anonymous.<\/p>\n

And so Anonymous is added to my list of People I Do Not Want to Piss Off, and HBGary is added to the likes or Razorfish, to my list of people who I would never trust with anything more complex than a mechanical pencil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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