Computers Snitches Get Online Stitches

teedubya · 02-08-2011, 03:27 AM

Holy shit...
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runnin...us_hacke_1.php

The anarchic and amorphous hacker group Anonymous unleashed its online fury Sunday on Aaron Barr, a computer security expert with plans to tell the FBI everything he's gathered about the group. They took over his Twitter, covered it with racial slurs, published his social security number and proceeded to expose 50,000 of his company emails, available for download in one convenient file. Anonymous also messed with his company website, which is now down. All because he told the Financial Times that "he had collected information on the core leaders, including many of their real names, and that they could be arrested if law enforcement had the same data." So they took him to online war.

Mr Barr said he penetrated Anonymous as part of a project to demonstrate the security risks to organisations from social media and networking. He is presenting his research later this month at a conference in San Francisco.

Using LinkedIn, Classmates.com, Facebook and other sites, Mr Barr also burrowed deep enough into a US military group and a US nuclear plant that he could trick workers there to click on web links that, if they had been malicious, could have installed spying software on their computers. Such "social engineering" hacks are a major vulnerability for companies targeted in industrial espionage.

To punish him, Anonymous -- an enemy of Scientology and governments in Tunisia, Egypt and so on -- cornered Barr in a chat room to let him know that they had all of his findings about the group and his personal information. As reported by Gawker, from inside the chat:

"All your emails were dropped. Meaning we know you were trying to sell your ****ing research to the FBI. And the sad thing is the names and info in that document//research is all ****ing fake... you could have gotten a lot of random innocent people arrested," wrote one Anonymous member.

"That's an old version of my research.... not trying to sell it... much has changed," Barr wrote.

"I saw your latest data and it's all the same shit," snapped back another Anonymous member.

"They didn't just pick on any company, but we try to protect the US government from hackers," said Greg Hoglund, the founder of HBGary, which employs Barr. "They couldn't have chosen a worse company to pick on."

But on Twitter, the nature of Anonymous persisted: "Today we taught everyone a lesson. When we actually decide to bite back against those who try to bring us down, we bite back hard. #gameover." And: "Anonymous finds the line and then crosses it." Hashtag? #noregrets.

http://twitter.com/aaronbarr

They changed their homepage to this: http://i.imgur.com/em14R.jpg

Freaking vicious. lol

**pr_capone** · 02-08-2011, 03:33 AM

I'm guessing that the author of this is in his mid teens

The grammar is atrocious.

FAX · 02-08-2011, 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted by pr_capone

I'm guessing that the author of this is in his mid teens

The grammar is atrocious.

Not great, to be sure. But did you note the use of the semicolon? They receive extra points for that. It reminds me of The World According To Garp.

Anyhow, who are these Anonymous guys?

FAX

Sofa King · 02-08-2011, 08:38 AM

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Originally Posted by FAX

Not great, to be sure. But did you note the use of the semicolon? They receive extra points for that. It reminds me of The World According To Garp.

Anyhow, who are these Anonymous guys?

FAX

yes they are.

**alnorth** · 02-08-2011, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by FAX

Anyhow, who are these Anonymous guys?

From what I can read, they are a sometimes-mean-spirited online group that includes both clueless bored kids and pretty skilled hackers. Very loosely led (if led by anyone at all) they usually torment people or organizations whom they think deserves it. They are probably best-known for going after Scientology. (who probably deserved it)

They don't steal or do ID theft, and its not like they are some scary criminal gang who will shoot anyone up or anything, I'm pretty sure they only do online crap. But, this is not a group who you give your name and then do something specifically to them that they don't like.

jidar · 02-08-2011, 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by alnorth

From what I can read, they are a sometimes-mean-spirited online group that includes both clueless bored kids and pretty skilled hackers. Very loosely led (if led by anyone at all) they usually torment people or organizations whom they think deserves it. They are probably best-known for going after Scientology. (who probably deserved it)

They don't steal or do ID theft, and its not like they are some scary criminal gang who will shoot anyone up or anything, I'm pretty sure they only do online crap. But, this is not a group who you give your name and then do something specifically to them that they don't like.

They aren't really an organization at all. There are no leaders, and they have no structure and no member list.
It's just a random social group that congregates around the /b/ boards of various chans (mainly shhhh, warning do not go there as there is a decently high chance of seeing child porn.)
Stuff like this really shouldn't be attributed to anonymous so much as to an individual or small group of individuals. Imagine if some random person who hangs out on Chiefs planet decided to go deface other football forums and posted "Don't **** with Chiefsplanet, we will own you". It's pretty much exactly like that.

As for the part about them not stealing or doing ID theft... well that's the thing about giant social collectives, they are made up of all types. I'm pretty sure that many of the black hats who associate with anonymous have done those things and continue to do them, and frankly those aren't near the worst of it either.

FAX · 02-08-2011, 09:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alnorth

From what I can read, they are a sometimes-mean-spirited online group that includes both clueless bored kids and pretty skilled hackers. Very loosely led (if led by anyone at all) they usually torment people or organizations whom they think deserves it. They are probably best-known for going after Scientology. (who probably deserved it)

They don't steal or do ID theft, and its not like they are some scary criminal gang who will shoot anyone up or anything, I'm pretty sure they only do online crap. But, this is not a group who you give your name and then do something specifically to them that they don't like.

Do they have a charter or something. A manifesto?

I might like to join up. Under a different name, of course.

FAX

Pants · 02-08-2011, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by pr_capone

I'm guessing that the author of this is in his mid teens

The grammar is atrocious.

I thought it was really well written. Definitely better than 99% of what you see here and I'm pretty sure CP's membership base is not made up of people in their teens.

ToxSocks · 02-08-2011, 10:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Pants

I thought it was really well written. Definitely better than 99% of what you see here and I'm pretty sure CP's membership base is not made up of people in their teens.

Pants, if you only knew.

We ARE Anonymous.

Pants · 02-08-2011, 10:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Detoxing

Pants, if you only knew.

We ARE Anonymous.

SnakeXJones · 02-08-2011, 03:39 AM

Reminds me of what they did to chris chan

Ebolapox · 02-08-2011, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by SnakeXJones

Reminds me of what they did to chris chan

what did they do to chris chan?

FAX · 02-08-2011, 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by H5N1

what did they do to chris chan?

His name used to be capitalized.

Poor bastard.

FAX

Ebolapox · 02-08-2011, 10:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FAX

His name used to be capitalized.

Poor bastard.

FAX

ahh, so he's related to Charlie Chan.

**Saul Good** · 02-08-2011, 10:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FAX

His name used to be capitalized.

Poor bastard.

FAX

They decapitalitated him?

02-08-2011, 03:27 AM	Topic Starter
teedubya Most Valuable Poster Join Date: Oct 2003 Casino cash: $8993042	Snitches Get Online Stitches Holy shit... http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runnin...us_hacke_1.php The anarchic and amorphous hacker group Anonymous unleashed its online fury Sunday on Aaron Barr, a computer security expert with plans to tell the FBI everything he's gathered about the group. They took over his Twitter, covered it with racial slurs, published his social security number and proceeded to expose 50,000 of his company emails, available for download in one convenient file. Anonymous also messed with his company website, which is now down. All because he told the Financial Times that "he had collected information on the core leaders, including many of their real names, and that they could be arrested if law enforcement had the same data." So they took him to online war. Mr Barr said he penetrated Anonymous as part of a project to demonstrate the security risks to organisations from social media and networking. He is presenting his research later this month at a conference in San Francisco. Using LinkedIn, Classmates.com, Facebook and other sites, Mr Barr also burrowed deep enough into a US military group and a US nuclear plant that he could trick workers there to click on web links that, if they had been malicious, could have installed spying software on their computers. Such "social engineering" hacks are a major vulnerability for companies targeted in industrial espionage. To punish him, Anonymous -- an enemy of Scientology and governments in Tunisia, Egypt and so on -- cornered Barr in a chat room to let him know that they had all of his findings about the group and his personal information. As reported by Gawker, from inside the chat: "All your emails were dropped. Meaning we know you were trying to sell your **ing research to the FBI. And the sad thing is the names and info in that document//research is all **ing fake... you could have gotten a lot of random innocent people arrested," wrote one Anonymous member. "That's an old version of my research.... not trying to sell it... much has changed," Barr wrote. "I saw your latest data and it's all the same shit," snapped back another Anonymous member. "They didn't just pick on any company, but we try to protect the US government from hackers," said Greg Hoglund, the founder of HBGary, which employs Barr. "They couldn't have chosen a worse company to pick on." But on Twitter, the nature of Anonymous persisted: "Today we taught everyone a lesson. When we actually decide to bite back against those who try to bring us down, we bite back hard. #gameover." And: "Anonymous finds the line and then crosses it." Hashtag? #noregrets. http://twitter.com/aaronbarr They changed their homepage to this: http://i.imgur.com/em14R.jpg Freaking vicious. lol
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