http://www.sacbee.com/2011/08/21/3851214/hacked-cybersecurity-firm-hbgary.html By Dale Kasler The Sacramento Bee Aug. 21, 2011 For years, few people knew about HBGary Inc., a Sacramento tech firm working on the esoteric frontiers of cybersecurity. Then a bizarre episode turned the 30-employee firm into a combination global laughingstock and villain. A maker of software designed to thwart hackers, HBGary was itself victimized by hackers in February. The group called Anonymous stole thousands of HBGary's emails and gleefully posted them on the Internet. As if that weren't bad enough, the emails revealed a dirty-tricks scheme, cooked up by HBGary's sister company, to undermine foes of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The plot brought a cascade of threats to HBGary's headquarters in a Fair Oaks Boulevard office complex. Customers postponed purchases. "We were terrified," said Chief Executive Greg Hoglund. "I saw all the fruits of my labor, my livelihood, being jeopardized." But HBGary didn't implode. Customers returned and new ones followed. In a sit-down interview recently, the owners insisted the whole episode wound up enhancing their credentials as defenders of Internet security. "The amount of brand recognition that we got out of that -- you couldn't have bought that for a million dollars," Hoglund said. [...] _____________________________________________________________ Register now for the #HITB2011KUL - Asia's premier deep-knowledge network security event now in it's 9th year! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2011kul/Received on Mon Aug 22 2011 - 00:37:56 PDT
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