U.S. Government Pays HBGary for Rootkits

February 22nd, 2011

Via: Ars Technica:

In 2009, HBGary had partnered with the Advanced Information Systems group of defense contractor General Dynamics to work on a project euphemistically known as “Task B.” The team had a simple mission: slip a piece of stealth software onto a target laptop without the owner’s knowledge.

Research Credit: RJ

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2 Responses to “U.S. Government Pays HBGary for Rootkits”

  1. ubz says:
    February 22, 2011 at 10:07 pm

    here come SIDs for all or pc health certs required to roam free on the net. spydll rootkit scan, virtualbox, vmware, chrome flow, live cd’s…not 100% but why make their job any easier.

  2. oelsen says:
    February 23, 2011 at 12:12 am

    I wonder if they could also hack a reasonably well developed ReactOS…

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