Anonymous Strikes Back Against Security Company
Discussion
So, it looks as if Anonymous did not take kindly to a security company helping the FBI track down some of those that disabled Mastercard/Paypal/Amazon.
This is the homepage of the HBGary security company website.
http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/2294/internetsa...
More on what they did to the company here (pretty brutal):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/feb/07/a...
and the company leader's twitter:
http://twitter.com/#!/aaronbarr
This is the homepage of the HBGary security company website.
http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/2294/internetsa...
More on what they did to the company here (pretty brutal):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/feb/07/a...
and the company leader's twitter:
http://twitter.com/#!/aaronbarr
Speed_Demon said:
I find it all rather fascinating. Always wonder what their next move will be.
I find the thought of so many super-qualified, intelligent and highly paid people being constantly outwitted by kids in their grandma's basement rather funny.
There's something David&Goliath about it all.
The language used by Anon also makes me giggle.
anonymous said:
Mr Barr has successfully broken through our over 9000 proxy field and into our entirely non-public and secret insurgent IRC lair, where he then smashed through our fire labyrinth with vigor, collected all the gold rings on the way, opened a 50 silver key chest to find Anon's legendary hackers on steroids password."
Anonymous has a sense of humour 
FraserLFA said:
Bloody hell they're good. Wasn't all this started over Wikileaks? I wonder how safe that site is from getting taken down.
Anonymous has been going for longer than before Wikileaks. But their efforts because of Wikileaks, the efforts to stifle them, have brought them to the media's attention on a more regular basis.A lot of it is/was just trolling, such as their targetting of the Habbo site. But they have also helped police and FBI officials track down paedophiles, and during the protests in Iran (and recently in Egypt) Anonymous helped Iranians get access to the internet when the government tried to block it.
And let's not get started on their war again Scientology.
Psychiatrists will be writing papers on this phenomenon for decades. There is no leader, there's no "higher up", they can be five teenagers in a school computer lab, or five thousand adults with families and full time jobs.
omgus said:
davepoth said:
My favourite bit of this is how they've sent the info that the FBI was going to pay for to the FBI for free...
Once again, anon entertaining me hugely whilst pissing people off.
LOL just read that page they have put up in the link by the op
Now thats funny
Jesus they even wiped his Ipad! thats low
"all emails will be put up in a torrent."
"full access to all their finincials
"their ssns [social security numbers]
"their w2s [US tax reporting statement]
"their 1099s [US tax identification certificate]
"their software products
"their malware data (although Anonymous rm'd [deleted] their entire terabyte of data sorry)
"their backup server was wiped.
"access to their pbx system via 8x8.com
"control of their support server and their clients logins
"root access to rootkit.com, personal website of greg hoglund
"aaron barr's ipad is now wiped"
Now thats funny
Jesus they even wiped his Ipad! thats low
"all emails will be put up in a torrent."
"full access to all their finincials
"their ssns [social security numbers]
"their w2s [US tax reporting statement]
"their 1099s [US tax identification certificate]
"their software products
"their malware data (although Anonymous rm'd [deleted] their entire terabyte of data sorry)
"their backup server was wiped.
"access to their pbx system via 8x8.com
"control of their support server and their clients logins
"root access to rootkit.com, personal website of greg hoglund
"aaron barr's ipad is now wiped"
Edited by Pesty on Tuesday 8th February 21:09
So would anybody use these people as security experts anymore?
anyway Anonymous statement
Anonymous Concedes Defeat
A recent article in the Financial Times (click to read) cites a certain Aaron Barr of the “security services” firm HBGay Federal (amirite?) as claiming to have discovered the identities of Anonymous’ operating leadership and founder, with this having been accomplished in large part by an infiltration of our entirely secret IRC server anonops.ru and in particular our ultra-clasified channels #opegypt, #optunisia, and, of course, #reporters, which itself is the most secret of all.
The following message was relayed to all Anons possessing at least 30 degrees of initiate status (17 in Scotland) or their equivalent in reddit karma, and is being leaked to the laity in an effort to gain their useless sympathy:
URGENT WARNING TO ALL ANONONYMOUS HACKTIVISTS:
Mr. Barr has successfully broken through our over 9000 proxy field and into our entirely non-public and secret insurgent IRC lair, where he then smashed through our fire labyrinth with vigor, collected all the gold rings on the way, opened a 50 silver key chest to find Anon’s legendary hackers on steroids password.
As Mr. Barr has discovered in spite of our best efforts, Anonymous was founded by Q last Thursday at the guilded Bilderberg Hotel after a tense meeting with one Morrowind mod collection, which itself includes the essential Morrowind Comes Alive 5.2 as well as several retexturing packs, all of which seem to lower one’s FPS unless one has also installed the latest Risc Architecture framework and thus obtained the killer refresh rate that is the right of all world citizens, except for noted heterosexual Tom Cruise.
In addition to the sudden disappearance of Anonymous leader Q, Anonymous co-founder Justin Bieber also disappeared just before his top-secret mission to Eritrea to offer physical succour to the rebels, suggesting that Mubarak is in our base, eating our Cheetos, likely with military support authorized by Hill Dawg. All of this comes at a low point for the Official Anonymous Organization, Inc. and its valued shareholders; several Anons had already lost their Fallout New Vegas saved games in the unwarranted and faggy raids perpetrated by the U.S. federales.
At this point, it is safe to assume that the underground server sites at the North Pole have been compromised as well. Back up all porn drives now, because the super secret P2P centralized distribution server of Backdoor Sluts 9 is presumed to be immediately threatened. Male Anons have been commanded to switch back to traditional tentacle porn while femanons, or “Rei Ayanami wannabes,” continue to be shared among the Echelon Nine Working Group that has since replaced Owen as sky marshall.
However, David Davidson (who might also be the legendary Ceiling Cat, as rumors have it) so far eludes custody, so all is not lost. Mr Davidson skyped the anonymous leaders from his hideout in Philadelphia to remind them that he was “Never gonna give them up, never gonna let them down”. Meanwhile, the board of directors remains little more than a gin-addled menagerie of puppets.
Despite these setbacks, the planned conference in Vienna is not slated for cancellation, although the buffet may be altered to include fewer Cheetos. The scheduled appearence of Boxxy is a subject of much contention within Anonymous ranks, being an event of considerably greater importance than the 4th return of Raptor Jesus, which itself is older than the internet.
We shall note in conclusion that we like the guy and want to believe him, but we still have to ask: Did Aaron Barr shave and murder Alexander Hamilton in 1993? We’re just asking questions here, people. At any rate, the Pink Horse prophecy will soon be fulfilled.
All Hail Xenu,
-Anonymous
anyway Anonymous statement
Anonymous Concedes Defeat
A recent article in the Financial Times (click to read) cites a certain Aaron Barr of the “security services” firm HBGay Federal (amirite?) as claiming to have discovered the identities of Anonymous’ operating leadership and founder, with this having been accomplished in large part by an infiltration of our entirely secret IRC server anonops.ru and in particular our ultra-clasified channels #opegypt, #optunisia, and, of course, #reporters, which itself is the most secret of all.
The following message was relayed to all Anons possessing at least 30 degrees of initiate status (17 in Scotland) or their equivalent in reddit karma, and is being leaked to the laity in an effort to gain their useless sympathy:
URGENT WARNING TO ALL ANONONYMOUS HACKTIVISTS:
Mr. Barr has successfully broken through our over 9000 proxy field and into our entirely non-public and secret insurgent IRC lair, where he then smashed through our fire labyrinth with vigor, collected all the gold rings on the way, opened a 50 silver key chest to find Anon’s legendary hackers on steroids password.
As Mr. Barr has discovered in spite of our best efforts, Anonymous was founded by Q last Thursday at the guilded Bilderberg Hotel after a tense meeting with one Morrowind mod collection, which itself includes the essential Morrowind Comes Alive 5.2 as well as several retexturing packs, all of which seem to lower one’s FPS unless one has also installed the latest Risc Architecture framework and thus obtained the killer refresh rate that is the right of all world citizens, except for noted heterosexual Tom Cruise.
In addition to the sudden disappearance of Anonymous leader Q, Anonymous co-founder Justin Bieber also disappeared just before his top-secret mission to Eritrea to offer physical succour to the rebels, suggesting that Mubarak is in our base, eating our Cheetos, likely with military support authorized by Hill Dawg. All of this comes at a low point for the Official Anonymous Organization, Inc. and its valued shareholders; several Anons had already lost their Fallout New Vegas saved games in the unwarranted and faggy raids perpetrated by the U.S. federales.
At this point, it is safe to assume that the underground server sites at the North Pole have been compromised as well. Back up all porn drives now, because the super secret P2P centralized distribution server of Backdoor Sluts 9 is presumed to be immediately threatened. Male Anons have been commanded to switch back to traditional tentacle porn while femanons, or “Rei Ayanami wannabes,” continue to be shared among the Echelon Nine Working Group that has since replaced Owen as sky marshall.
However, David Davidson (who might also be the legendary Ceiling Cat, as rumors have it) so far eludes custody, so all is not lost. Mr Davidson skyped the anonymous leaders from his hideout in Philadelphia to remind them that he was “Never gonna give them up, never gonna let them down”. Meanwhile, the board of directors remains little more than a gin-addled menagerie of puppets.
Despite these setbacks, the planned conference in Vienna is not slated for cancellation, although the buffet may be altered to include fewer Cheetos. The scheduled appearence of Boxxy is a subject of much contention within Anonymous ranks, being an event of considerably greater importance than the 4th return of Raptor Jesus, which itself is older than the internet.
We shall note in conclusion that we like the guy and want to believe him, but we still have to ask: Did Aaron Barr shave and murder Alexander Hamilton in 1993? We’re just asking questions here, people. At any rate, the Pink Horse prophecy will soon be fulfilled.
All Hail Xenu,
-Anonymous
Edited by Pesty on Tuesday 8th February 21:47
The real talented ones aren't kids, they're internet security experts, but with beliefs. Though the teenagers are useful. The teenagers are the ones that were caught for commanding bots nets to DDOS those websites. But anon is a brotherhood, they fight back.
Anyone and everyone can help if they want to.
There is much more to come. Iran has surpressed it's people for far too long for one.
Anyone and everyone can help if they want to.
There is much more to come. Iran has surpressed it's people for far too long for one.
Speed_Demon said:
The real talented ones aren't kids, they're internet security experts, but with beliefs. Though the teenagers are useful. The teenagers are the ones that were caught for commanding bots nets to DDOS those websites. But anon is a brotherhood, they fight back.
I think a lot of people like to think that Anonymous is just a bunch of nerdy teens in their bedroom doing it for the lulz, whereas like you say, there are some exceptionally talented people involved as evidenced by the pwnage meted out to HBGary.
Now, should Anonymous ever get hold of Xerxes, then we'd be in for some fun!!
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