Now that RSA 2011 is wrapping up I’m finding time to catch up on my reading from the last few days. One interesting article is this write up about the Anonymous vs HBGary story from Ars Technica.
When Barr told one of those he believed to be an Anonymous ringleader about his forthcoming exposé, the Anonymous response was swift and humiliating. HBGary’s servers were broken into, its e-mails pillaged and published to the world, its data destroyed, and its website defaced. As an added bonus, a second site owned and operated by Greg Hoglund, owner of HBGary, was taken offline and the user registration database published.
First off, if you’re going to engage in this type of research you have to expect that there will be repercussions. And it appears that his Twitter account is still very much under the control of others.
What has transpired has been nothing short of ugly. Where will this end is the question.
For more on this please read on.
(Image used under CC from Alexis Tejeda)