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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:35:23 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Inside the Stratfor Attack
Message-ID: <p0624080fcb87924fa308@[10.0.1.4]>
Inside the Stratfor Attack
By NICOLE PERLROTH
March 12, 2012
Last December, a group of hackers quietly orchestrated an attack on
Stratfor Global Intelligence Service, a company based in Austin,
Tex., that analyzes geopolitical risk and publishes a newsletter for
various clients, among them the Departments of Homeland Security and
Defense. The hackers breached the company's network and, once inside,
confided in their fellow hacker, Hector Xavier Monsegur, and, as it
turns out, the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Six months earlier, in June, the F.B.I. had arrested Mr. Monsegur and
turned him into an informant. With his help, four hackers in Britain
and Ireland were charged last Tuesday with computer crimes; a fifth
man was arrested Monday in Chicago. Using the information he passed
along, F.B.I. officials said it was able to thwart attacks on roughly
300 private companies and government agencies.
But with Stratfor, they were not so lucky.
...
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/12/inside-the-stratfor-attack/
***** Moderator's Note *****
Is Ms. Perlroth referring to the "Anonymous" hackers, or was the
Stratfor attack conducted by a different group?
Bill Horne
Moderator
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:46:33 -0500
From: bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi)
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Inside the Stratfor Attack
Message-ID: <c_KdnYDBEdCk_v_SnZ2dnUVZ_gednZ2d@posted.nuvoxcommunications>
In article <p0624080fcb87924fa308@[10.0.1.4]>,
>
>***** Moderator's Note *****
>
>Is Ms. Perlroth referring to the "Anonymous" hackers, or was the
>Stratfor attack conducted by a different group?
Yes, it was the 'anonymous' gang.
***** Moderator's Note *****
If the attacks were conducted by citizens of Ireland and England, who
arrested them? Are those countries party to a treaty that makes their
citizens subject to U.S. law?
Bill Horne
Moderator
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