i3m Blog » ddos http://internal3m.com/CMS/Wordpress Thu, 21 Apr 2016 14:54:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price http://internal3m.com/CMS/Wordpress/2011/10/11/how-one-man-tracked-down-anonymous%e2%80%94and-paid-a-heavy-price/ http://internal3m.com/CMS/Wordpress/2011/10/11/how-one-man-tracked-down-anonymous%e2%80%94and-paid-a-heavy-price/#comments Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:58:59 +0000 http://internal3m.com/CMS/Wordpress/?p=640 [...]]]> Aaron Barr believed he had penetrated Anonymous. The loose hacker collective had been responsible for everything from anti-Scientology protests to pro-Wikileaks attacks on MasterCard and Visa, and the FBI was now after them. But matching their online identities to real-world names and locations proved daunting. Barr found a way to crack the code.

In a private e-mail to a colleague at his security firm HBGary Federal, which sells digital tools to the US government, the CEO bragged about his research project.

“They think I have nothing but a heirarchy based on IRC [Internet Relay Chat] aliases!” he wrote. “As 1337 as these guys are suppsed to be they don’t get it. I have pwned them! :)”

But had he?

via How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price.

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