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+ - The inner world of gov-sponsored white-hat hacking-> 2

Submitted by romanval
romanval writes "Anonymous leaked emails of white-hat hacker firm HBGary shows how it develops and markets products to government agencies.

Includes information of advanced rootkits, collections of 0-day unpublished exploit vectors (aka "Juicy Fruit"), Amounts that the rootkit typically sell for (about $60K), rootkits with keyboard loggers that disguise payload as ad click tracking data, the usage of social networking bots to investigate a particular group, and lots more."
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  • FTA 'The following detection tools were tested in April 2007. A subset were retested in August 2008. The rootkit was installed prior to the detection tool'

    The subsequent list includes most well known A.V. packages whether you love em or hate em, the American government can still only spy on people with no A.V. installed or can be socially engineered into turning it off while thier spyware installs itself.

    Before anyone flames me for this post I did read the rest of the article where a number of other atac

  • I called myself a White Hat hacker in the past, But you have to step over to the "Dark Side" to appreciate the darkside of what you can do with code. This means being in underground irc networks.

    Understanding the "Motives" of the blackhat hacker code allows you to better understand real intentions.

    Some of you might be old enough to remember PAD & GANDALF UK hackers 8LGM. Well I worked with Neil Woods at a company called Quadport in Manchester. After being jailed for the misuse of computer act he helped

Since we're all here, we must not be all there. -- Bob "Mountain" Beck

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