Hacked and Now Vandalized, HBGary Pulls Out of RSA Conference (Anonymous Leaves Sign at Booth)

Source: PC World

Feb 16, 2011 3:00 am
Hacked and Now Vandalized, HBGary Pulls out of RSA
By Robert McMillan, IDG News

The California security company that is at the center of a controversy over a plan to discredit WikiLeaks and its supporters abruptly pulled itself out of the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week, citing security concerns.

The company's subsidiary, HBGary Federal, also cancelled a talk it had planned to give on the Internet activist group, Anonymous. It was news of this talk that riled Anonymous and precipitated the controversy last week.

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The company decided to strike its booth from the RSA conference floor, however, after it was vandalized on Sunday, said Jim Butterworth, HBGary's vice president of services. "We... came back the next morning and it was very apparent that the group responsible for the activities in the news had decided to make another statement," he said.

The IDG News Service obtained a photo of HBGary's vandalized booth. Someone had placed a large paper poster on the HBGary booth that read, "Anon... in it 4 the lulz.." Lulz is Internet slang meaning 'laughs.'

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on edit: or is it LULzOL?

Would have helped if I'd read it all the way through.

have time to edit before anybody notices. :7

:pals:

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Is being pwnd. :rofl:

big time :) LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!

It is just right and dandy for them to visit wholesale environmental/ cultural/fiscal/ human rights atrocities and we are supposed to accept that as just and fair when they are called on the bullshit and lies they are the victims of persecution.

PC World going along with their bullshit and titling the article with a completely false accusation.

calling people videoing them "wire tapping"

If Clarence Thomas can put a pubic hair on the can of soda his secretary was about to drink from, and then get seated at the Supreme Court, yet a hand written sign that could be thrown away before opening time is tantamount to vandalism!

Oh the horror! An Economically important, job creating and federally sanctioned Corporation was somehow harmed. Oh the humanity.

Talk about taking the ball and going home. Just like any Corporation, they take the stance of "We have nothing to talk about" and walk away, because they know that they couldn't say anything without damaging themselves.

Better to get a crack squad of attornies to craft a bulletproof public announcement than to risk a spontaneous comment.

If I back into a car in a parking lot and decide to leave a note under the windshield wiper with my name and phone number on it, I'm vandalizing that car?

Okay...good to know!

ways.

The very existence of Anonymous must be scary to them all. If it had not been for them, the smear campaign would have been successful.

This is like the good guys finally win a round! Like in the movies! Lol!

No one mourns.

:)

they got hacked....

they are losing customers left and right and may go out of business...

what a great coup...

unless you are an employee and you lose your job...more folks on hte unemployment line some of whom are just collateral damage.

isn't that just wonderful.

Who, who I ask, is going to provide cyber propaganda now? Think of the children.

:rofl:

the ceo took on anon in order to show how great he was. The hope was to drum up business by exposing anon.

The whole anon attack was successful because the ceo chose a lame password and the company didn't really take its own security seriously.

So if this company goes down, the employees will have to find jobs at more stable and secure "security" firms.

Or perhaps Obama will give them a hubris bailout.

:)

We need a peaceful revolution, not to overthrow our government but to drastically overhaul it. These "security companies" with their plans to "smear" citizens demanding honesty should be illegal.
If our tax rate for the wealthy were what it was 40 years ago, most of these problems would not exist. Return the government to the people. Corporations are not people. Reinstate the laws against "casino capitalism, The Fairness Doctrine and put a cap on CEO and bankster "earnings", especially while wages for 95% of Americans are falling. Protect our Unions. Remove all money (except Public) from politics.

We need to have a peaceful revolution and demand this and so much more. TRANSPARENCY.

Fair trade not free trade can bring back a lot of manufacturing jobs.
The GREEN REVOLUTION can bring America to almost full employment. Instead,"we" keep encouraging the existing energy companies with subsidies while they steal the largest profits (each quarter for a decade) ever.
If I were able, I would gladly "hack for freedom."

Am I supposed to feel bad if people who work at Haliburton lose their jobs? What about Blackwater? What about pimps? What if pimps lose their jobs?

If they want to work for criminals they have to be prepared to take the lumps for it.

"Collateral damage?" Whatever. People who work for the scum of the earth go down with them. Shall we mourn for lost jobs when a pimp is busted? When Xe has no more military contracts? When a dictator's regime topples? (Won't SOMEBODY think of the death squads?!?!?) Also, many of those "poor employees" - most in some cases - know exactly what kind of people they work for... No pity for those folks.

It's AWESOME.

Besides, they can just grab their bootstraps like the rest of us, 'kay?

:rofl:

You honestly believe employees are losing both clients and jobs due to Anon rather than the business models and practices employed by HBGary?

I think you rely too much on Post Hoc Ergo Prompter Hoc.

:rofl:

They may actually need to go out of business. They just the couldn't hack it.

in a capitalistic system. Exceptions to the rule, of course, are if the corporation is too big or has political connections or both. When those exceptions apply any corporation will gladly dump capitalism in the trash in exchange for government protection.

of the security firms and banks. Where were you when they stole our 401Ks?

weh. reap the whirlwind mutherlickers.

Your vague and general post evinces zero knowledge about this case.

HBGary and apparently its partners were openly threatening others, as a result of which their files were exposed. This in turn showed that they were at the least repeatedly soliciting conspiracy to commit dreadful crimes against journalists and legal protesters.

Fuck them.

The Sopranos are also "employers." Every fascist or gangster outfit is also an "employer."

We must be sure not to expose them for what they are, lest they lose their jobs! We should never try to expose evil organizations, I mean, not ALL their employees are evil. Some merely turn a blind eye to the evil.

That means that Xe offloads the onerous burden of paying income taxes to the "Contractor", who as you know, must fastidiously report every quarter to Uncle Sam don't you know...

If they were actually employees, Xe would be bankrupt.

allowed Blackwater to get contracts meant for small businesses, too.

http://upload.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3692546

And they apparently were not very good at their job.

So, to sum up:

- Unethical Behaviour
- Lousy Job Performance

Probably should be fired. Sorry.

After all, they create jobs.

It is no longer fun and games now that it is their (your) turn, eh?

Welcome to the reality of millions of Americans. How do you like them apples assholes?

A bunch of mindless corporate suits gets pooned and someone actually cares!?! Amazing. Didn't know they had fans. :eyes:

they saw the lion....

Audio Interview with Glenn Greenwald <02•14•11>
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http://official.fm/tracks/210139?fairplayer=large

It's pretty depressing though to realize just how biased and selective the Justice Department is as to which crimes it prosecutes and which ones it turns a blind eye to or actively obstructs. The rot goes very deep into the system, and when it infects the Justice Department itself the whole concept justice in America becomes a sick joke.

:sarcasm:

They clearly were unprepared to play with the big boyz...

That must be an old catchprhase......Seems like today's score is:

Malware 1 HBGary 0

:thumbsup:

You DIE by Ayn Rand. Welcome to the cruel world of market forces and creative destruction you worthless CENSORED!!!!!!

Huzzahs to Anonymous!

The more details emerge, the more I love it.

:wtf:

:rofl: :applause:

LOL! :ROFL:

I don't care how good you think you are, there's always somebody better! In this case HBGary was no match.

http://www.techspot.com/news/42308-anonymous-hacks-security-company-hbgary-for-working-with-fbi.html


:rofl:

lol

The Scarlett Pimpernel of the Internet. Its like a riveting movie.

I want one right now! :D

That was one s-w-e-e-e-e-t smackdown. :applause:

http://www.cafepress.com/+anonymous-white-tshirt,277507193

:D

I definitely need one.

sharp as hell, but they are witty. That is one beautiful smackdown. My favorite line as to why they did it that way: "we will will give you a simple explanation, because you seem like primitive people."

http://twitter.com/aaronbarr

:rofl:

I love these guys!

They "angered the hive." :D

Who says there are no more heroes? Not me, not me.

:headbang:

:rofl:

viva les revolution. Excellant!!

Why, that must be tremendous damage done by leaving that paper sign on their table! They might actually have to get up and throw that sign in the trash! It could cause incalculable damage!!!

:rofl:

Unless I am missing something, that is a mild prank, not vandalism.

I understand the impulse of journalists to report the most head-turning information available on a story, but using provocative words that CLEARLY do not apply is absolute crap.

A poster was left, the horror!
And that was not vandalism but it is typical of the M$M to exaggerate it.

That would complete the exercise nicely.

They were merely a propaganda company, fronting as a security company. They clearly do not have any real experts on staff, or else they would have easily been able to stave off any cracking done to their website. Furthermore, had they any real security, their e-mail would have been secure, and not open for some cracker to break into the system and grab it.
Kudos to the Anonymous who accomplished this task of revealing these fakers for what they are.

The whole last 30 years have been one giant dog and pony show. From Reagan's "trickle down" to Bush's lies for the Iraq invasion, we've been subjected to a huge propaganda play. Consider the attack on the government (Reagan's "famous" nine words) to Walker's attack on unions to the constantly whining about the federal deficit (oh? Where was the "concern" when Bush invaded Iraq and put the resultant expenses on the US credit card?) to bogus front groups with temporary websites to stop single-payer, public financed health care to TARP and "Citizens United" etc.etc.etc...

Wonder what happened to the billions unaccounted for after the Iraq invasion? (Why does Mubarak have $70 billion?)

Wonder why we have breast and genitalia groping by TSA? (makes irradiation scanners so much more palatable--assuring $100 hundreds of millions in contracts for Rapiscan).

We've been had...simple enough. And the lies keep coming. There is a small but extremely wealthy faction in this country...if not the world...who simply want...more, and...more.

And they're willing to put on this kabuki play to get it.

The Iraq War crystallized it...get the US involved in another war and sit back and collect the profits. After all, there's no profit in peace.

Why is there is an ongoing assault on government, unions, health and education? Consider who stands in the way of the oligarchs and plutocrats: Government, unions, and healthy, educated Americans...

Less the 400 people worldwide own and control better than 45% of the planet's resources, including HUMAN resources. These uber wealthy people have their own PRIVATE systems of transportation, education, and leisure activities. They are certain their vast wealth will protect them from the catastrophic economic disintegration we're witnessing.

I think they're seriously underestimating the ingenuity and creativity of the hoi polloi...

it was in regards to their 60 Minute interview (apparently one was in the works at some point)- said that they wanted to be perceived as a security company not an investigation company. I thought it was a strange statement. Who knows what the hell they were supposed to be, in their world:shrug:

Handwritten poster board sign? Someone has a wonderful sense of humor.

this can serve as fair warning to those that wish to wade in dangerous waters...

corporations have ruled for way toooo long, to use the baggers favorite cliche - it's time for the peeps to take their country back!

You know, the ones that really have a genuine product to sell and play a honest game.

Edited to add: Those giggling geeks in the next booth were also part of Anonymous. They just decided to use a low-tech method for the occasion.

Leaving a sign is not remotely "vandalism"!

The flat-out claim that anyone in Anonymous left the sign is insupportable.

and talked with the snickering boys eating Snickerdoodles. You know what I mean, Vern?

:rofl:

Take up their time, get a few threats from them and tell them to fuck off a couple of times a day....Yes, it will please me.

There is a deep set of serious, talented hackers for whom the concept of freedom of speech is a serious concern.

action against these perpetrators. The Hacktivists at work. Life might get better in American democracy yet. Maybe in the world too.

:)

door. I don't suppose it will be so funny then. Just saying.

do you?

Please do tell us about the "leadership" of "anonymous"

LOL

not offering any of your own. Since you've "researched" them, I look forward to seeing your backup, although I'm not holding my breath. (Why do I feel this is a waste of time?)

Here's some snippets that contribute to my opinion/belief about Anonymous:

Actions credited to "Anonymous" are undertaken by unidentified individuals who apply the Anonymous label to themselves as attribution.

Anonymous has no leader or controlling party, and relies on the collective power of its individual participants acting in such a way that the net effect benefits the group.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(group)

I don't have "proof" but it sure sounds as though you do, so let's have it. You may change my mind.

and haven't had a chance to respond. I haven't read your link yet, but I certainly will, and as I do with any link, will analyze it for its merit regardless of origin. As a quick response, two articles I'll direct you to are by the Financial Times. I actually downloaded both of them to my work computer on Thursday in anticipation of your response, but will not have access to them until Monday. In the mean time, if you want to register at FT and then do a search for "Anonymous", you'll find a number of very good articles describing their investigative findings - including the two I mentioned. However, if you want to wait until Monday, I will gladly copy the relevant parts of them for you here.

:hi:

HBGary was trying to sell a list of who they thought were high level leaders of the group to the FBI. The group retaliated. That means there is no longer any list (if there ever was one). So how do you figure the FBI or CIA is gonna go knocking at anon's door?

Rule number one. when committing a crime or plotting against another. Tell no one before you do it.
Rule number two. Keep your mouth shut after committing a crime (most criminals are caught because they can't keep their mouths shut and incriminate themselves)
Rule number three. Don't fuck with anonymous.

correct? I mean, I'm sure they'll just drop it and move on.

"We will give you a simple answer because you seem like a primitive people..."

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

:rofl:

:rofl:

I'm fascinated with anything Anonymous and found myself in the lobby of their network earlier today. I was too chicken to go into one of their chat rooms though. :D

They recorded a chat log as they were hacking HBGary. It's a fascinating read if you have half a day to read it. Someone will turn it into a screenplay.

http://pastebin.com/x69Akp5L

the same thing if I knew what the hell to do! :7 They're doing this Just. Right.

LOL. Nice to see this top-notch "security" company exposed for the impotent frauds they are. And they were doing projects for the intelligence/military complex?? HA, the fight will be easier than expected if that's the lines of defense being assembled.

I would have run from that sign too. The absolute correct response.

Meanwhile, Anonymous has pretty good writers.

anon is my hero!

SlimJimmy, I've lurked 4chan for about 6 years. From what I can see Anon is a worldwide leaderless resistance. 4chan is a lot more than just the raiders and I think Anon has become bigger than 4chan.
I would never claim to speak for Anon.
Interesting stuff there and lots of crap there. However, they recently have been policing their boards (thankfully) of the more offensive.

To Anonymous: thanks for the laughs!!!

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What's especially great about this is that the sign could've been made by anyone at the event ... and guess what ... they are Anonymous, too. Anonymous is EVERYONE ... and no one.

anon is so GM