Exposed : HBGary wanted to suppress Stuxnet research !
Summary: Emails released by Anonymous from HBGary Federal show CEO Aaron Barr received a copy of Stuxnet from McAfee on July 28, 2010, and that Greg Hoglund instructed all staff on September 26, 2010 not to comment to the press about Stuxnet. In a separate thread, Barr told Cheryl Peace he was interested in running "some of the stuxnet stuff" by her and described HBGary Federal as managing work that requires clearances.
What's compelling: A contractor that publicly claimed to know nothing about Stuxnet was privately asking staff for a dropper and seeking to discuss the worm in a closed space, which is the gap between a vendor's public statement and its internal conduct that a security leader is asked to trust.
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