vs The Illusion of Security

Aaron Barr : “Security Expert” CEO of security company HBGary Federal Provide Security Training Create Malicious Software Develop tactics to squash dissent and shape public opinion "They think I have nothing but a heirarchy based on IRC [Internet Relay Chat] aliases!" he wrote. "As 1337 as these guys are suppsed to be they don't get it. I have pwned them! :)"

Bank Of America vs Wikileaks planting fake documents with the group and then attacking them when published "creating concern over the security" of the site "cyber attacks against the infrastructure to get data on document submitters" "media campaign to push the radical and reckless nature of wikileaks activities." Many of those proposals were also featured prongs of a secret 2008 Pentagon plan to destroy WikiLeaks. a secret 2008 Pentagon plan

From thinkprogress.org: ThinkProgress has learned that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the big business trade association representing ExxonMobil, AIG, and other major international corporations, is working with set of "private security" companies and lobbying firms to undermine their political opponents, including ThinkProgress, with a surreptitious sabotage campaign. The core proposals called for snooping on the families of progressive activists, creating phony identities to penetrate progressive organizations, creating bots to “scrape” social media for information, and submitting fake documents to Chamber opponents as a false flag trick to discredit progressive organizations. Hunton & Williams LLP Named a 'Top Environmental Firm' by Law360 01/28/11 Hunton & Williams LLP Uncontested as Top Privacy Adviser in Computerworld Poll 02/07/11

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Anonymous Retaliates LOIC Low Orbit Ion Cannon DoS attacks SQL Injections, Rainbow Tables Weak Passwords found, belonging to… “Why are you going to sell this information to the FBI when we are going to give it to them for free?”

Your Password is WEAK CEO Aaron Barr & COO Ted Vera 6 lower case letters and 2 numbers ALSO USED FOR: Twitter Linked-In SSH HBGary used Google Apps, and Aaron’s account was an administrator for all of them.

HBGary pulls out of RSA Conference "We had to pull out of the RSA Conference (in San Francisco) because at our booth, we found vandalism placed stating that Anonymous was intending to take the threats to the physical space," said Jim Butterworth, vice president of services at HB Gary. "The threats aren't limited to cyberspace anymore. It's gone beyond the RJ-45 jack to real people and real addresses."