11:54 Anonymous attack Aaron Burr who denounced them | |
| In Saturday's Financial Times newspaper published an article which revealed the name of the specialist, who reportedly identified the person 45 members of the group Anonymous, including their leader, nicknamed Owen of New York and co-founder of group named Q in California (about the arrests and searches in the apartments Activists reported earlier). Self-styled "Sherlock Holmes" name Aaron Burr (Aaron Barr), a director of a small company HBGary Federal, which specializes in information security. Aaron Burr was a detailed report on the management of Anonymous and the hierarchical structure of the organization. According to him, she has hundreds of "operatives", including the 30 most active and about 10 people, coordinating the group through the IRC, Facebook and email. Penetrate the network to the "enemy" Aaron Burr was able to by creating a number of fake profiles on Facebook. He did a great job analyzing the appearance of an open IRC-chat Anonymous known characters and the appearance of suspected online on Facebook. This enabled him to make informed guesses about who is behind certain nicknames. Then he began to dig further and complete the picture by other evidence. This operation is part of a project to demonstrate the dangers of social networking and open communication systems for enterprise systems. Presentation on the topic Aaron Burr is scheduled for February at a security conference in San Francisco. In this case, the expert claims that did not give the police the names of members of Anonymous, although they are known to him. Despite this, Aaron Burr immediately attacked by hackers. Attackers from the group Anonymous has disfigured his twitter-account (screenshot), broke the corporate network HBGary Federal and made public certain sensitive documents (torrent). They found the aforementioned 23-page report and assure that it contains just a "random names. As proof of the document made public through hacked twitter Barr. The activists also contacted the owners of the company HBGary Federal and require dismissal of Aaron Burr, and the transfer of his salary into the fund to support Bradley Manning. Personally, president of the company went into the IRC-chat Anonymous, to negotiate and try to persuade the activists not to publish online the other documents HBGary Federal, which fell into their hands. According to the co-owner Greg Hoglunda, it will cost them business in a few million dollars. | |
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