A Virginia firm specializing in international security technologies says it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Sacramento's HBGary Inc., which was victimized last year by a high-profile cyberattack.
Fairfax, Va.-based ManTech International Corp. did not disclose specific financial terms but characterized the pending transaction as an asset purchase that it hopes to complete in March.
In February last year, the local maker of network-security software and its sister consulting company, HBGary Federal of Washington, D.C., were targeted in a cyberattack by the group Anonymous.
Hackers broke into the sister company's website and uncovered user names and passwords belonging to HBGary. Within hours, the hackers helped themselves to thousands of emails from both companies.
Among other things, the emails showed that HBGary Federal was developing a high-tech dirty-tricks campaign it planned to offer to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The Sacramento company insisted that it didn't know about the plan, as did the U.S. Chamber.
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I'm not a hacker or even a genius with a PC, merely interested in the 'growth industry' of cyber, or information, security and will share any stories and news items I find on the subject.
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