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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">TEKSYSTEMS | is a subsidiary of Allegis Group, the largest private talent management firm in the world. Our longstanding history and industry-leading position speak to our success in providing the IT staffing solutions, IT services and talent management insight required for you to actualize ROI and sustain a truly competitive advantage in a fast-changing market.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div>
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</div><div>IT Solutions that Work</div><div>The success of any initiative hinges on the quality of the people driving it.</div><div>Our IT talent management expertise ensures you attract, develop and retain the best IT professionals required to achieve your business targets better, faster and more cost-effectively. We have the largest global network of credentialed IT professionals to lead and support your engagements. With over 100 locations, 5,000 employees throughout North America, Europe and Asia and an IT consultant network that encompasses over 81 percent of the IT workforce, we deploy more than 80,000 technical professionals annually to support critical engagements at more than 6,000 client sites, including 82 percent of the Fortune 500. In every local market, we build upon our pipelines of talented IT professionals, employing IT talent management best practices and ensuring our Employee Value Propositions (EVPs) stay competitive and compelling.</div><div></div><div>wikifluff</div><div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Allegis Group</b>, headquartered in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanover,Maryland" title="Hanover, Maryland" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Hanover</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland" title="Maryland" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Maryland</a>, in the United States, is one of the largest privately held staffing companies in the world, with $10.44 billion in revenue in 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; font-size: 11.1999998092651px; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegis_Group#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> Founded in 1983 by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bisciotti" title="Steve Bisciotti" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Steve Bisciotti</a> and Jim Davis, the company, then known as <b>Aerotek</b>, originally focused on providing technically skilled people to the expanding engineering and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerospace" title="Aerospace" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">aerospace</a> industry. Jim Davis still has majority control of Allegis Group. Bisciotti has turned his attention to his ownership of the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League" title="National Football League" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">National Football League</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_Ravens" title="Baltimore Ravens" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Baltimore Ravens</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; font-size: 11.1999998092651px; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegis_Group#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Allegis Group currently has over 300 offices in the United States and also does business through several operating companies.</p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: 'Linux Libertine', Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-family: sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Allegis_Group&action=edit§ion=1" title="Edit section: References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></h2><div class="reflist" style="font-size: 12.6000003814697px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; list-style-type: decimal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; font-size: 12.6000003814697px; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegis_Group#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span></a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation news" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.forbes.com/companies/allegis-group/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">"Allegis Group on the Forbes America's Largest Private Companies List"</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes" title="Forbes" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Forbes</a>. 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</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 627.890625px; margin: 0px auto 2rem; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 27.2000007629395px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">You’ve probably already heard of Anonymous, the world’s most infamous group of cybertrolling hacktivists. They frequently make headlines for crashing websites and looting corporate and government servers. Usually these hacktivists come together in defense of others, such as Julian Assange, <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/the-gaza-strip-cyber-war" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">the people of Gaza</a>, victims of police brutality, or even victims of rape. But now, Anonymous has turned its eyes on a personal rival. This enemy has its own cybersquad of secret spies who, according to Anonymous, spend the majority of their time in chat rooms collecting intelligence about them. With this latest release of stolen data, Anonymous has just pulled back the curtain on their foe: the Bank of America.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 627.890625px; margin: 0px auto 2rem; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 27.2000007629395px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On February 25 @AnonymousIRC, an Anonymous Twitter account with over 280,000 followers, began posting “teasers” about a massive Bank of America data leak. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The first post declared, “If you spy on us, we spy on you.” What followed was 14 gigabytes of private emails, spreadsheets, and a “text analysis and data mining” program called </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">OneCalais</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. The emails in the release originated from “Cyber Threat Intelligence Analysts” who identified themselves as employees of a company called TEKsystems. The </span><a href="http://www.teksystems.com/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">TEKsystems website</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> appears to be nothing more than a staffing agency and seems wholesome enough. There’s definitely nothing that screams “we are cyberspies!” It’s safe to assume these analysts were hired by Bank of America, regardless of their TEKsystems titles, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">because according to the leaked emails that Anonymous released, each of them were using @bankofamerica.com email addresses while filing their reports.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 627.890625px; margin: 0px auto 2rem; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 27.2000007629395px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Having a team on staff to protect a corporation from potential cyberthreats is nothing new. This isn’t what caught the attention of Anonymous to begin with; it was the methods being employed by Bank of America to gather data. Each of the 500 plus emails pilfered reads like a </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">surveillance report, most of them reporting on the activities of online activists from Anonymous to Occupy Wall Street.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 627.890625px; margin: 0px auto 2rem; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 27.2000007629395px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In one <a href="http://pastebin.com/Dps23mzq" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">email</a>, TEKsystems reveals that IRC chat users were discussing a document on the US House of Representatives website, house.gov, which listed companies that had officially given their support to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). In the IRC chat, one of the users says, “Do these organizations know what they’ve started? Follow the money.” In the email, the Bank of America security analyst responds to this unrest privately, writing, “Included among those named are two of our critical suppliers: MasterCard Worldwide and Visa, Inc. This has been the only mention of this document at this time, and it has not hit Twitter as of yet.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 627.890625px; margin: 0px auto 2rem; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 27.2000007629395px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In </span><a href="http://par-anoia.net/assessment/us/bofa/allTexts/emails/06.%2010_23_2012%20-%20EWT%20End%20of%20Shift%20Report%20230700-1700ESTOCT12.txt" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">another</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> email, a TEKsystems analyst identifies an Anonymous Twitter account known as “Anonymousown3r” and then shares a document that appears to show the user’s real identity, along with his IP address. The analyst states, “[the IP address] is listed in Brazil... This was also confirmed by a security analyst 86_g (Twitter).” This isn’t the only private information Bank of America was handling. Another </span><a href="http://pastebin.com/K3yjycZY" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">report</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> discusses a different Twitter account, “DestructiveSec”, and their conflict with hackers known as TeaMp0is0N. The analyst writes, “TeaMp0is0N is claiming victory over the feud between the two groups and has provided a</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> d0x of DestrutivSec [sic] in the form of a passport photo with comments: Yes! Submit them! Also, report to the feds. Get em arrested as well </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">#RunRabbitRun.”</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 627.890625px; margin: 0px auto 2rem; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 27.2000007629395px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It’s fair to note that a large number of the emails appear to be addressing legitimate threats to Bank of America, such as databases of stolen credit card numbers, or plans by activists to crash a website by flooding it with useless traffic via a denial of service attack. Other reports detail live protests meant to take place at actual Bank of America locations.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 627.890625px; margin: 0px auto 2rem; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 27.2000007629395px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The stolen data was spread through various Anonymous accounts, but one group in particular took responsibility for its release. They’re called “</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://par-anoia.net/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">Par:AnoIA</a>,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">” and I had the opportunity to interview one of their members. They preferred not to be identified by name or even by gender. The first thing Anon wanted me to know was, “Par:AnoIA is no ‘hacking group.’ We are a publisher much like any other media outlet. The main difference is that we publish data and information as received.” According to Par:AnoIA, information is given to them, and their sources intentionally remain anonymous.The information, Par:AnoIA says, wasn’t hacked at all. It was just sitting on an unsecured server readily accessible by anyone who knew where to look. This is a common issue that they believe endangers the personal and financial information of millions of consumers.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 627.890625px; margin: 0px auto 2rem; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 27.2000007629395px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I asked Par:AnoIA, who was busy indexing Bank of America’s emails to ease search capabilities of the leaked information, what they had found most interesting about the data released so far. “It’s amazing to learn that there are paid analysts actually reading public chat rooms.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> We were quite aware of the fact that Anonymous are likely monitored, but we were thinking more along the lines of automatic logging. The data not only shows that there were actual people monitoring the channels (and Twitter) 24/7, but they send shift reports to Bank of America with their ‘findings.’”</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 627.890625px; margin: 0px auto 2rem; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 27.2000007629395px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A </span><a href="http://par-anoia.net/assessment/us/bofa/keywords.txt" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">list</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> of thousands of keywords was included in the released data, presumably to aid Bank of America in data mining. According to Par:AnoIA, “The keyword list is just ridiculous. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It has become a running joke to use the keywords in every sentence now, rendering it useless.”</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The ridiculousness of the keywords frankly cannot be overstated. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Among the words Bank of America was searching for, I found “homosexual,” “demonology,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">” and “Buck 65.” The last is the name of a Canadian hip-hop artist. However there are also terms like “OccupyWallStreet,” “Internet Kill Switch,” and “Interrogation.”</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 627.890625px; margin: 0px auto 2rem; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 27.2000007629395px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Par:AnoIA was still reviewing the bulk of the data when I spoke with them, but there were a few items that seemed to stand out, such as the installation files for the text-analyzing software OneCalais. Included was an additional code for OneCalais that Par:AnoIA claimed was likely used to customize the program for Bank of America’s use. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">OneCalais is software sold by ClearForest, a Thomson Reuters company based in Israel, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and according to Par:AnoIA, Israel is where the server they took all this data from sits. According to Par:AnoIA’s </span><a href="http://par-anoia.net/assessment/us/bofa/bofa-press-release.pdf" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">press release</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, an additional “4.8 Gigabyte of data containing detailed career and salary information of thousands of executives and employees from various corporations all around the world” was extracted from the server. The folder the employee data was located in was labeled “Bloomberg,” which Par:AnoIA believed might link to the multinational media corporation of the same name.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 627.890625px; margin: 0px auto 2rem; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 27.2000007629395px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">I asked Par:AnoIA whether they were concerned about the consequences of releasing the Bank of America intel ,or putting a copy of what is likely a very expensive piece of software like OneCalais online for anyone to access. The Anons replied, “Yeah… the thing is, the download of the data might be illegal, but no one has claimed it. That would mean confirming its authenticity. Either way, it’s a win-win for us.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 627.890625px; margin: 0px auto 2rem; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 27.2000007629395px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Disclaimer: Bank of America has not admitted that the data Anonymous released belongs to them, nor have they admitted that they are working with the third-party technology company, TEKsystems. Their statement on the matter was merely that "a third-party company was compromised... This company was working on a pilot program for monitoring publicly available information to identify information security threats." 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</font><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a id="yui_3_8_0_11_1368807473110_1605" class="toggle-group toggleOnScroll trigger remember refreshAds gaTrackPageEvent on" data-toggle-group="story-13207458" href="http://www.salon.com/2013/02/21/jeremy_hammond_speaks_out_from_solitary_confinement/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">The hacker group Anonymous has stuck again. The loosely associated hacking collective group, which has hacked financial institutes, government websites, the </a><a href="http://siliconangle.com/blog/2013/01/28/pentagon-bolsters-cybersecurity-force-to-head-off-foreign-threats/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Pentagon</a>, <a href="http://siliconangle.com/blog/2012/09/10/dns-attack-takes-down-millions-of-go-daddy-sites/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">GoDaddy</a>, and others, has released huge 16 GB block of software, data, and code <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/27/anon_bofa_leak/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">related to Bank of America</a>.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> </font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The data was not due to one Anonymous hack, but the group found a misconfigured server in Israel, where BofA was practically open and accessible.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">One Anonymous subgroup, identifying itself as Par:AnoIA (Anonymous Intelligence Agency) released a press report on Wednesday to discuss some of the details of the hacking.<b> The information suggests that Bank of America is running an online intelligence gathering operation against hacktivists.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> </font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“The source of this release has confirmed that the data was not acquired by a hack but because it was stored on a misconfigured server and basically open for grabs,” Par:AnoIA <a href="http://www.par-anoia.net/releases2013.html#bofa" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">said</a>. “Looking at the data it becomes clear that Bank of America, TEKSystems and others (see origins of reports) gathered information on Anonymous and other activists’ movement on various social media platforms and public Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> </font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The hack data includes information on social network reconnaissance, memos from IT contractor TEKsystems to the bank’s security staff, and reporting chat room, a list of more than 10,000 words, phrases, Wikipedia entries — everything from “jihad” to “keg stand.” The <a href="http://par-anoia.net/assessment/us/bofa/bofa-press-release.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">group alleged</a> that the data clearly shows that the research was sloppy, random and valueless. Apparently a keyword list was used to match items of interest on IRC, Twitter and other social media.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> </font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“We were amused by the fact that there are actually paid analysts sitting somewhere reading the vast amount garbage that scrolls by in large public channels like #anonops and #voxanon,” Par:AnoIA<a href="http://www.par-anoia.net/releases2013.html#bofa" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">said</a> in a statement accompanying the leak. “Even more amusing is the keyword list that was found, containing trigger words like ‘jihad’ or ‘homosexual’.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> </font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The bank had instructed security experts to identify specific groups’ threats to spy and monitor. Thus it appears from the data that the Wall Street activists were screened by third-party companies.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Anonymous has become well known for small groups carrying the banner of the hactivism collective against perceived enemies of the people,” says HackANGLE editor Kyt Dotson. “In 2011,<a href="http://siliconangle.com/blog/2011/10/26/november-fifth-looms-large-with-anonymous-plot-vs-fox-news-banks/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Anonymous attempted to use Nov 5</a>–a date close to the provacteur nature of the collective due to its connection to Guy Fawkes and the <em>V for Vendetta</em> mask used in their propaganda–as a rally point to unleash on Fox News alongside a call for customers to transfer money out of international banks. Needless to say, nothing much happened then either.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> </font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Bank of America was linked to efforts to collect information about members of Anonymous and its partner organizations, especially Aaron Barr, who previously announced that he had succeeded in unmasking the key figures in the organization. In retaliation, <b>Anonymous hacked into the HB Gary Federal System, took over its Twitter account and revealed 68,000 emails, including a presentation made to Bank of America by HB Gary Federal in cooperation with other intelligence agencies.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><font size="4">The Wall Street bank raised the ire of Anonymous in 2010, when it announced it would stop processing payments to WikiLeaks. Similar movements made by MasterCard, Visa and PayPal also triggered retaliatory cyber-attacks by the hacker group.</font></b></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> </font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><font size="4"></font></b></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> </font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/02/27/anonymous_group_claims_to_show_bofa_monitored_hackers_activists/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;"><font size="4">http://www.salon.com/2013/02/27/anonymous_group_claims_to_show_bofa_monitored_hackers_activists/</font></a></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> </font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">An Anonymous group, identifying itself as Par:AnoIA (aka Anonymous Intelligence Agency) has released 14 Gigabytes of data, code and software that it claims shows how Bank of America employed security firms to monitor hackers and activists.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In a Wednesday <a href="http://par-anoia.net/assessment/us/bofa/bofa-press-release.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">press release</a>, Par:AnoIA stated that the data “shows that Bank of America and others are contracting other companies to spy and collect information on private citizens.” The release also notes, however, that the “overall quality of the research is poor and potentially false.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The data was not obtained through any hack, but was “stored on a misconfigured server and basically open for grabs.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> </font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Leaked documents reveal that TEKSystems assembled reports on both<a href="http://par-anoia.net/assessment/us/bofa/allTexts/emails/372.%207_24_2012%20-%20EWT%20TACTO%20-%20Occupy%20Tactical%20Breifing.txt" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;"> Occupy Wall Street online activity </a>and <a href="http://par-anoia.net/assessment/us/bofa/allTexts/emails/04.%2010_24_2012%20-%20Daily%20Cyber%20Threat%20Highlights%20-%2024%20October%202012.txt" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">hackers</a> throughout 2012. But the hackers group called such “intelligence” “sloppy, random and valueless”:</font></p><blockquote style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Apparently a key word list was used to match for items of interest on IRC, Twitter and other social media. While the list has over 10.000 entries only 1125 keywords seem to be genuine, the rest are simply Wikipedia references.</font></p></blockquote><div id="yui_3_8_0_9_1371014203221_18" data-position-name="300-mi1" class="adPosition bigBox ad-300-mi1 flex" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="toggle-group target hideOnInit" data-toggle-group="story-13213747" style="opacity: 1;"><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This aspect of leaked information is reminiscent of internal DHS reports obtained revealing the agency’s monitoring of Occupy in late 2011. <a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/02/29/was_dhs_really_spying_on_occupy/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">At the time</a> I noted “my shock… at the cursory and complacent nature of the document. This is spying? The sources cited for Occupy information are almost entirely mainstream media reports (from the AP, CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, Reuters and others).”</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.justiceonline.org/commentary/fbi-files-ows.html" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">FBI documents obtained</a> earlier this year through FOIA by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund <a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/01/02/the_irony_of_joint_fbi_private_sector_ows_policing/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">revealed</a> that an FBI program specifically dedicated to the partnership between the FBI, DHS and the private sector monitored the Occupy protests, providing information and tips to corporate partners on interacting with and combating Occupy groups.</font></div></div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> </font></p></div></div><div><font size="4">
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</font></div><div><p align="left" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p><p align="left" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">salon: </font></p><p align="left" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">An Anonymous group, identifying itself as Par:AnoIA (aka Anonymous Intelligence Agency) has released 14 Gigabytes of data, code and software that it claims shows how <font color="#FF0000">Bank of America</font>employed security firms to monitor hackers and activists.</font></p><p align="left" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In a Wednesday <a href="http://par-anoia.net/assessment/us/bofa/bofa-press-release.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">press release</a>, Par:AnoIA stated that the data “shows that Bank of America and others are contracting other companies to spy and collect information on private citizens.” The release also notes, however, that the “overall quality of the research is poor and potentially false.”</font></p><p align="left" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The data was not obtained through any hack, but was “stored on a misconfigured server and basically open for grabs.”</font></p><p align="left" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Leaked documents reveal that<b> <font color="#ff0000">TEKSystems </font>assembled reports on both<a href="http://par-anoia.net/assessment/us/bofa/allTexts/emails/372.%207_24_2012%20-%20EWT%20TACTO%20-%20Occupy%20Tactical%20Breifing.txt" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 242, 0);">Occupy Wall Street </span>online activity </a>and <a href="http://par-anoia.net/assessment/us/bofa/allTexts/emails/04.%2010_24_2012%20-%20Daily%20Cyber%20Threat%20Highlights%20-%2024%20October%202012.txt" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">hackers</a> throughout 2012. But the hackers group called such “intelligence” “sloppy, random and valueless”:</b></font></p><div align="left" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><blockquote><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Apparently a key word list was used to match for items of interest on IRC, Twitter and other social media. While the list has over 10.000 entries only 1125 keywords seem to be genuine, the rest are simply Wikipedia references.</font></p></blockquote></div><div id="yui_3_8_0_9_1371014203221_18" data-position-name="300-mi1" class="adPosition bigBox ad-300-mi1 flex" style="text-align: center;"><div class="toggle-group target hideOnInit" data-toggle-group="story-13213747" align="left" style="opacity: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This aspect of leaked information is reminiscent of internal DHS reports obtained revealing the agency’s monitoring of Occupy in late 2011. <a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/02/29/was_dhs_really_spying_on_occupy/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">At the time</a> I noted “my shock… at the cursory and complacent nature of the document. This is spying? The sources cited for Occupy information are almost entirely mainstream media reports (from the AP, CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, Reuters and others).”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> </font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b><a href="http://www.justiceonline.org/commentary/fbi-files-ows.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">FBI documents obtained</a> earlier this year through FOIA by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund <a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/01/02/the_irony_of_joint_fbi_private_sector_ows_policing/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">revealed</a> that an FBI program specifically dedicated to the partnership between the FBI, DHS and the private sector monitored the Occupy protest</b>s, providing information and tips to corporate partners on interacting with and combating Occupy groups.</font></div></div><p align="left" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></p><div class="headers" style="border: 1px solid rgb(141, 163, 196); border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; padding: 3px; text-align: start;"><div class="heading"><strong class="heading"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">BofA, TEKSystems Keeping Tabs on Berkeley Marine Recruiting Station Protests</font></strong></div><div class="author"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">by Berkeley Pirate Party </span>
<em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Friday </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Mar 1st, 2013</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> 10:25 PM</span></em></font></div></div><blockquote class="summary" style="line-height: 16px; text-align: start;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Paranoia (Anonymous) has recently released "320mb of internal reports and and emails assembled for Bank of America by a sub-contractor named TEKSystems". One of the files released is a keyword list used for intelligence gathering. In the keyword list of subjects and events is the phrase: "Berkeley Marine Corps Recruiting Center controversy".</font></blockquote><div class="article" style="line-height: 16px; margin-top: 12px; text-align: start;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Source: <a href="http://par-anoia.net/releases2013.html#bofa" style="border: none; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial;">http://par-anoia.net/releases2013.html#bofa</a>
Bank of America, through the information management (espionage) contractor TEKSystems has a list of keywords and phrases it uses in data mining of social networking sites, blog postings, social calendar/coordination sites, and etc. The list includes people, social concepts, and events.
In the data mining keyword list is the phrase <b>"Berkeley Marine Corps Recruiting Center controversy" followed by "Code Pink"</b>. The recruiting center (or station) on Shattuck Avenue has been a the location of an ongoing protest. The Marine recruiting station is situated one block away from the Bank of America in downtown Berkeley. While Code Pink is the only group mentioned in the keyword list, World Can't Wait and protestors of no particular association have also been part of the protest against marine recruitment in the city of Berkeley. While the larger weekly protests at the recruitment center on Shattuck Square have subsided, there are still occasional moments of protest against recruitment done by smaller groups or singular individuals.
The protests against the Marine recruitment have been nonviolent, and have varied from a camp-out in front of a city council meeting, to protesters standing in the doorway of the recruitment station, as well as chalking and signs. There was an incident in which a World Can't Wait organizer was charged with obstruction of police at the recruitment station, but that charge was dropped to a non-criminal infraction. The protest against Marine recruitment has decreased, but has not stopped. There will occasionally be stickers, chalk and other signs of sporadic protest.
There was a conservative reaction to the protest against the Marine recruiters. An economic boycott on Berkeley business was called by members of conservative media, conservative political groups, and individuals. It is not known what effect the boycott had, or how long it was sustained as a mass boycott.
The Shattuck Sq recruitment center is also a place of protest to show support for Bradley Manning, Julian Assange, Wikileaks, Occupy and Anonymous. A march for Bradley Manning by the Manning Support Network and Veterans For Peace was halted by Berkeley police in November of 2012.
Bank Of America has its downtown Berkeley branch one block away from the Marine recruitment center. As a company, Bank of America organized a multi-corporation economic blockade against Wikileaks. Bank of America does not process money transfers to Wikileaks. As a bank, Bank of America invests in companies that develop weapons and vehicles of war, including companies associated with nuclear weapons technology.
At its height, the protest against the Shattuck Square recruitment station attracted national attention. The protest is still locally recognized, despite the reduction in intensity.
It is disappointing, but not unexpected that the Bank of America would use a information gathering contractor like TEKSystems to keep track of the Berkeley protest against Marine recruitment through online data mining.
TEKsystems has offices in San Francisco and Walnut Creek (Contra Costa County).</font></div></div></div><div><font size="4"></font></div></div></div></div></div>