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Anon's foil Aaron Barr is back...
...and he wants more cybersecurity offensives
«Barr is back in business. Aaron Barr, the former CEO of HBGary Federal, memorably had his corporate e-mail exposed to the world by Anonymous earlier this year after attempting to expose the group's "leadership." Based on our reporting, comedian Stephen Colbert memorably summed up the encounter: "To put this in hacker terms, Anonymous is a hornet's nest, and Barr said, 'I'm going to stick my penis in that thing.»
Source : Ars Technica
«It was an "Elvis Meets Nixon " kind of moment: former HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr sporting blue hair and posing in front of a van sporting the Wikileaks logo down at New York's Zuccotti Park , home of the Occupy Wall Street protest. What was he doing there? It's complicated.
In an interview with Threatpost, Barr said he wanted to be on-hand on the day of the protest in part to observe what role, if any, his arch nemesis - the anarchic hacking group Anonymous - played in the events that transpired. But Barr's e-mail address also turned up on dispatch to the New York FBI by Thomas Ryan, an independent security consultant who has admitted to informing on the doings of OWS organizers, prompting Barr critics called 'foul,' accusing him of trying to undermine the popular protests. Barr, it would seem, was ...err...poking the Anonymous hornet's nest once again.»
Source : Threat Post
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Anon's foil Aaron Barr is back—and he wants more cybersecurity offensives
Anonymous Hacks Security Firm Investigating It; Releases E-mail
As I also mentioned yesterday, in some of the emails, HB Gary people are talking about creating "personas", what we would call sockpuppets. This is not new. PR firms have been using fake "people" to promote products and other things for a while now, both online and even in bars and coffee houses.
But for a defense contractor with ties to the federal government, Hunton & Williams, DOD, NSA, and the CIA - whose enemies are labor unions, progressive organizations, journalists, and progressive bloggers, a persona apparently goes far beyond creating a mere sockpuppet.
According to an embedded MS Word document found in one of the HB Gary emails, it involves creating an army of sockpuppets, with sophisticated "persona management" software that allows a small team of only a few people to appear to be many, while keeping the personas from accidentally cross-contaminating each other. Then, to top it off, the team can actually automate some functions so one persona can appear to be an entire Brooks Brothers riot online.
via gregsalad
On November 2, HBGary Federal executive Aaron Barr sent John Woods, a lawyer at Hunton and Williams representing the Chamber, two documents discussing tactics for assisting the Chamber (view the e-mail here). One presentation (click here to download) boasted of HBGary Federal’s capabilities in “Information Operations,” a military contractor term for offensive data extraction techniques typically reserved for use against terrorist groups. The slide includes sections on “Vulnerability Research/Exploit Development” and “Malware Analysis and Reverse Engineering.”
Software to create fake "people" on the internet (facebook, twitter, etc)
Software will allow 10 personas per user, replete with background , history, supporting details, and cyber presences that are technically, culturally and geographacilly consistent. Individual applications will enable an operator to exercise a number of different online persons from the same workstation and without fear of being discovered by sophisticated adversaries. Personas must be able to appear to originate in nearly any part of the world and can interact through conventional online services and social media platforms.
To get even more creepy:
This allowed the human actor to open a virtual machine or thumb drive with an associated persona and have all the appropriate email accounts, associations, web pages, social media accounts, etc. pre-established and configured with visual cues to remind the actor which persona he/she is using so as not to accidentally cross-contaminate personas during use.
Source
Here is the actual government solicitation.