HBGary chief exec resigns over Anon hack HBGary Federal chief exec Aaron Barr has resigned in a bid to allow the firm to draw a line under the continuing revelations from the Anonymous hack attack. Barr was the prime mover in plans to out senior members of Anonymous at the B-Sides security conference last month. But hunter became hunted after the more skilled members …
Until I read these series of articles that Bruce Schneier linked to
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/02/anonymous_vs_hb.html
I'm surprised his Barr wasn't fired the moment this whole thing came down on the company.
Basically the guy thought he was some super hacker extraordinaire, started on a flawed premise, ignored the advice of other employees, and clumsily poked at the Anonymous ringleaders to the extent that they knew who he was and took him down. I especially like his email exchanges with his programmer who basically told him he was full of shit and nuts to do what he was doing. Naturally he did it anyway.
The HBgary caper has thrown far too much of a spotlight not only on it's activities but als that of U.S. government agencies.
Since they can't even keep their servers safe, nor those of BankAmerica and that they are involved in 'dirty tricks' certainly won't enhance their image.
They have been exposed as an organised scam designed to extract money from government projects that are particularly high profile at this time.
Good riddance to them.
You'd open the box only to find that the poor sap had managed to allow someone to eat all the pepperoni off the top and leave a calling-card in the form of a small dog turd.
As for spending more time with his family, has anyone informed Social Services yet??
Powerpoint presentation? Level 90? Eh, what have I missed?
The Colbert report stated actually he was a lvl 80 NE durid in hateful.
I myself looked him up to find out where he was and was idly contemplating transferring one of my highbies over to camp his ass if he were on a pvp server. Would have formed a guild too... called it <hunts Sevrynsten> or <hunts Aaron Barr> or something like that.
Wow armory spits out this url: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/velen/sevrynsten/
From this one can tell he was last known to be guildless. But wow armory also qualifies that the toon has been inactive or is being transferred/name changed etc... So effectively now, we can't see his gear/stats. (I pity the other sevrynsten (a 58 DK) who shares the name, though)
I think he probably name changed or transferred out - did someone actually take a snoop at him on wowarmory at the time for the Colbert report or was that a fabricated for camera screenshot? Because all that's not possible now.
Can't blame him.
At least he did the decent thing and an hero'ed... metaphorically.
..... which Destroys Advanced Enhanced Security Provision and AES Measures/Services/Programs.
"Reputation salvaging .... I'd put money on HBGary changing their name next. Suggestions?" .... zef Posted Tuesday 1st March 2011 18:10 GMT
Yeah, well, hmmm? ..... That worked out real fine for Blackwater/Xe, didn't it.
Certainly. However, in light of the leaked mails, you'd have to stretch your hollier-than-thou moral sense quite a bit to paint Anonymous as the villains here....
HBGary Federal (and by that I really mean Aaron Barr) routinely broke the -admitedly half-arsed - digital millenium act, and made that their business model. They were semi-openly planning even worst nastyness, unless you condone blackmailing journalists, smear-campaining activists and unionists, and malware-infecting random systems for a bounty.
This is what happens when you pick consultants because you like them, or at least think you understand them, rather than because they're any good.
I bet this guy really talked the talk, and with lots of that rigid procedural thinking the military seem so fond of. He probably used Powerpoint like Darth doing Jedi mind control, and the fuckwits fell for it.
I wonder if government and military networks can ever be secured? The military will have to learn to deal productively with some people they REALLY don't like, and who'll follow anything but orders, or this sort of thing will inevitably happen again and again.
Another reason to free Gary McKinnon? Or perhaps they're secretly after his "expertise" :)
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/hbgary-emails-sweet-valentine-social-engineers-021411
the article linked is why the moron should have quit.
being outed on tv was waiting far too long and displays the arrogance of a fool.
the damage he has caused the entire community actually has much wider repercussions.
his not resigning sooner is indicative of the kind of desperate ethics in play.
no, i'm not being naive, if this is the state of play, then game on, go go anon and anyone like them.
How about that they were actively soliciting (along with their associates) the US Chamber of Commerce for running dirty-tricks campaigns against unions and Democrats, up to and including leaking fake documents to later discredit the Chamber's enemies? How about covering that?
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