Re: [Fed-Talk] Anonymous Hacker Group Strikes Again
Re: [Fed-Talk] Anonymous Hacker Group Strikes Again
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Anonymous Hacker Group Strikes Again
- From: Amy Forinash <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 07:30:05 -0400
I'm pretty sure the point is that the sentence should have read:
>>> A Twitter user quickly claimed credit for the incident. It was described by Anup Ghosh, chief scientist with security company Invincea, as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack
The writer was just unclear.
On Sep 10, 2012, at 10:25 PM, Todd Heberlein wrote:
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> On Sep 10, 2012, at 3:01 PM, Todd Heberlein <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> One reason I hate to talk to the media. My former DARPA-related friend is Anup Ghosh. This is from a Fox News story:
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>>> A Twitter user quickly claimed credit for the incident, described as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack by Anup Ghosh, chief scientist with security company Invincea
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>> Since then he has posted several times that he is *not* taking credit for the attack. :) Pretty funny, and he seems to be taking it in good humor.
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> Oh my! The story keeps getting worse! Be careful talking to the press. Anup used to be a DARPA Program Manager, has a company which recently won a big no-bid contract with the DoD (I think DARPA). He is definitely not a "hacker".
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> 'Anonymous' hacking shuts down ALL websites hosted by GoDaddy including thousands of small businesses
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2201336/Anonymous-hacking-shuts-ALL-websites-hosted-GoDaddy-including-thousands-small-businesses.html
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>> FoxNews identified the hacker as Anup Ghosh after he emailed the site and they verified his identity through various Twitter claims.
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>> 'This is yet another example of how anyone with an agenda can take down large portions of the Internet with really cheap, off-the-shelf tools,' he told the site.
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>> The question of internet security is one that Ghosh appears to know well as he is thought to be a chief scientist with Invincea, a security company specializing in cyber protection.
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> Todd
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