Anonymous no more: HBGary goes down

17.02.2011
Last week, in , we learned that an obscure cyber security company was trying to take out a whistleblowing site on behalf of a Fortune 50 corporation, thanks to a shadowy group of uber geeks whose identities are as yet unknown.

(Quick, get me Matt Damon. He's not available? Get me someone who looks like Matt Damon. OK, we'll settle for Shia LeBeouf.)

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But the saga of HBGary Federal, WikiLeaks, and Anonymous is still unfolding, thanks to yet more private emails released by Anonymous into the wild. InfoWorld blogger of all that has transpired so far.

Here's a quick list of the dirty dealings buried in those emails:

* HBGary Fed (HBGF) was one of five companies that were pitching a proposal to take down WikiLeaks on behalf of Bank of America. and apologized. As far as I know, Booz Allen and law firm Hunton & Williams have yet to issue a statement, while BofA claims it never heard of or saw this proposal. (Color me surprised.)