Topic: SECURITY - on February 28, 2012 at 6:10:00 PM CET
RSA: Chaos In the Security World, And the Situation Is Perfect
Right on queue this week, the anarchic hacking collective Anonymous stepped up and grabbed the story line away from the lions of the IT security industry.
With the Conference set to begin, the whistle blowing site Wikileaks released the first of some five million e-mail messages stolen from the security intelligence firm Stratfor. Ever sensitive to the fickle attention of the media, Anonymous inserted itself into the story, claiming responsibility for leaking the data and pointing a finger of blame at Stratfor and its media, private and public sector customers, which Anonymous accuses of spying and other dark offenses.
Coming just a year after a similar hack at HBGary Federal, the leak of the Stratfor e-mails was an unwelcome reminder for the folks here at RSA that, despite some high profile arrests, little real progress has been made in fighting back against Anonymous and other hacktivists groups, or stemming their activities.
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