Did anonymous make that security firm (HBGary) look stupid?

:eek::confused::eek: A little notice, please?!?

Damn interesting stuff. I gotta root for Anonymous on this one. Barr tried to use them to enrich himself and got burned. I hope he never works in cybersecurity again.

The only guy I really feel bad for here is Greg Hoglund. The only thing he was guilty of was having a laughably insecure database.

The full list of (completely fantastic) articles from Ars Technica about this hack can be found here. (A few of these have already been linked to.)

I believe Stephen Colbert had the best analogy to describe this situation, but I’m not going to find that clip on YouTube while at work. :slight_smile:

The social engineering is the most dangerous aspect of this. I’ve been doing temp jobs for three years. I make minimum wage at most of these jobs or around a dollar more.

Yet I have access to data or have easy access to people who have the data. For all the brilliance of hacking it’s still easy to simply offer low level employees $50.00 to give you the info.