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Anonymous attacks
HBGary
Nobody would think to do this.
UNIDENTIFIED MICROSOFT PROGRAMMER, on being shown the SQL injection hacking technique in 1995
It was Sunday evening, 6 February 2011: the night of the 45th Super Bowl, the most-viewed event in the US TV calendar, with the Pittsburgh Steelers playing for the title against the Green Bay Packers. But Aaron Barr wasn’t watching it, not even for the adverts. Instead, he was trying to connect to the email server for his work at HBGary Federal, a cybersecurity company which focused on contracts with the US government.
Barr was revising a big presentation that he was going to give at a conference in the coming week; as he had explained in an exclusive interview published online in the Financial ...
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