{"id":18798,"date":"2011-02-08T08:52:44","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T15:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=18798"},"modified":"2011-02-08T08:52:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T15:52:44","slug":"the-independentuk-hacktivists-take-control-of-internet-security-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2011\/02\/08\/the-independentuk-hacktivists-take-control-of-internet-security-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"The Independent\/UK: Hacktivists Take Control of Internet Security Firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In cyberspace they call it &#8220;getting pwned&#8221;. That&#8217;s what happened to the American tech-security company HBGary Federal when it tried to infiltrate the so-called hacktivist network known as Anonymous.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview over the weekend Aaron Barr, chief executive of the Washington-based company, said his firm had successfully infiltrated the shadowy collective behind a series of recent pro-WikiLeaks cyber protests.<\/p>\n<p>Anonymous&#8217;s revenge was swift and brutal. Using sophisticated hacking techniques, the group managed to deface HBGary&#8217;s website, break into its messaging system to dump 60,000 emails on to it and hijack Mr Barr&#8217;s Twitter account to tweet abuse and publish his supposed home address and social security number.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/media\/online\/hacktivists-take-control-of-internet-security-firms-2207440.html\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In cyberspace they call it &#8220;getting pwned&#8221;. That&#8217;s what happened to the American tech-security company HBGary Federal when it tried to infiltrate the so-called hacktivist network known as Anonymous. In an interview over the weekend Aaron Barr, chief executive of the Washington-based company, said his firm had successfully infiltrated the shadowy collective behind a series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}