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From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2011-03-25 6:21:31
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.61.1103250021160.24244 () conundrum ! infosecnews ! org
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http://blogs.forbes.com/parmyolson/2011/03/23/congressman-probing-hbgary-scandal-fears-domestic-surveillance/
By Parmy Olson
Forbes.com
March 23 2011
When a small team of hackers launched a 24-hour assault on software
security firm HBGary Federal last month, they did so to take revenge on
its CEO, who had sought to penetrate the global collective they aligned
themselves with known as Anonymous.
They did that and more. Now a Congressional subcommittee has asked to
see all HBGary Federal's contracts with the U.S. military and the
National Security Agency (NSA), along with those agencies' contracts
with two other private security firms, Berico Technologies and Palantir
Technologies.
The hacked HBGary Federal emails that were posted online showed the
three firms had proposed a plan to the Chamber of Commerce's legal
representative Hunton & Williams to infiltrate and discredit the
Chamber's opponents with fake documents, personas, and potentially even
malicious software. There were also proposals to track and intimidate
supporters of WikiLeaks.
The man behind the investigation, Rep. Hank Johnson, a Democrat from
Georgia's 4th House District, penned a letter signed by 19 other members
of Congress calling for a subcommittee investigation on March 1. He
believes the Chamber, Hunton & Williams, and the three security firms
were in discussion regarding a "potentially illegal" scheme, according
to a memo from his office.
Given the classified and convoluted nature of the alleged activities
(not to mention lobbyists who will undoubtedly take issue with it), it's
possible Johnson's Congressional probe will lead him and others down a
long and winding rabbit hole. That's also because of the wider
implications he sees behind the HBGary revelations: domestic
surveillance on Americans.
[...]
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