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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

AntiSec hackers target Vanguard Defense exec - CNET

By: Jonathan E. Skillings August 19, 2011 8:58 AM PDT Print E-mail Share 4 comments

The hacktivist group AntiSec says it has released a gigabyte of private documents from Vanguard Defense Industries, including e-mails from an executive connected with a cybersecurity organization it has targeted previously.


In a post on Pastebin this morning, AntiSec said the e-mails belong to Richard Garcia, a senior vice president at Vanguard who is also a board member at InfraGard, an FBI program that teams up public and private cybersecurity efforts. In June, AntiSec affiliate LulzSec hacked the Web site of InfraGard Atlanta, releasing passwords and other sensitive information.


Describing InfraGard as "a sinister alliance," AntiSec gloated about this latest breach:



It is our pleasure to make a mockery of InfraGard for the third time, once again dumping their internal meeting notes, membership rosters, and other private business matters.


Within the booty you may find lots of shiny things as we did not have time to follow up on all the data. Safe to say, that despite previous disclosure in the media...Mr. Garcia did not bother to change any of his many many passwords found in his spool at the time of this release. So here's also a shoutout to all Lulz Lizards still following our mischiefs: Have fun withthe data of Mr. Garcia, former Assistant Director to the L.A. FBI office who now sells his cybersecurity "skills" to the Military and Government for brazen amounts of money.


Vanguard, based in Conroe, Texas, makes an unmanned aerial vehicle called the ShadowHawk, used in commercial as well as law enforcement and military settings, and also provides security consulting services.


AntiSec said the new breach was perpetrated "not only to cause embarrassment and disruption to VanguardDefense Industries, but to send a strong message to the hacker community" that it will continue to target military contractors, law enforcement agencies, and "white hat sellouts," a reference to hackers who work with police and other establishment groups.


Earlier this month, AntiSec issued a "Shooting Sheriffs Saturday Release" of what it said was 10GB of data stolen from U.S. law enforcement agencies, including private e-mails, passwords, data from informants, Social Security numbers, and credit card information.


Update 10:24 a.m.: In a phone conversation with CNET, Vanguard CEO Michael Buscher said the company had determined that there was no breach of its servers or Web site, but rather that it was Garcia's personal Gmail account that was accessed.


Nothing in the the material that was released by AntiSec involved sensitive data from Vanguard, or proprietary or customer information, Buscher said. The approximately 1GB of information, he said, centered primarily on Garcia's role at InfraGard.



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Topics: Privacy and data protection, Vulnerabilities and attacks Tags: AntiSec, FBI, InfraGard, hackers
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

AntiSec Hackers Hit FBI Contractor - New York Times (blog)

Hackers who have claimed responsibility for a spate of recent break-ins said on Friday that they had infiltrated the networkof IRC Federal, an engineering contractor that works for federal agencies including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and stole internal documents from its database and e-mail system.

The group, which is a part of the hacktivist collective Anonymous and includes members of the defunct group Lulz Security, also said it had defaced IRC Federal’s Web site. The firm has taken the site down.

A spokesman for IRC Federal said it was investigating the claim. “We reported it to the authorities, and otherwise we have no comment.”

In a statement online that was decorated with a digital drawing of a mushroom cloud, the group complained that IRC Federal had been “selling out their ‘skills’ to the US empire. So we laid nuclear waste to their systems, owning their pathetic windows box, dropping their databases and private emails, and defaced their professional looking website.”

The group, which has been waging a campaign called AntiSec against what it calls corrupt corporations and governments, said it found within IRC Federal’s e-mails documents that included a proposal to develop for the F.B.I. a “Special Identities Modernization (SIM) Project” that it said would protect records associated with “trusted individuals,” while revealing the identities of individuals who might pose a terrorist or criminal risk to the United States.

It claimed it also found fingerprinting contracts for the Justice Department and biometrics development for the military. It also cited “strategy contracts” for the “National Nuclear Security Administration Nuclear Weapons Complex.”

The F.B.I. declined to comment.

The incident follows arrests earlier this week of 15 alleged members of Anonymous in Italy and Switzerland, aged 15 to 28, in raids in which 32 homes were searched by police. Last month, three men in Spain and 32 people in Turkey were arrested in connection with online attacks by Anonymous.

The collective has promised to retaliate, and has claimed break-ins at Italian universities and to have brought down hundreds of Turkish Web sites.


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