[2][3] It was also shown that he and his team at HBGary had performed a great deal of research on Chinese Government hackers commonly known as APT (Advanced persistent threat).
Hoglund drew the attention of the media when he exposed the functionality of Blizzard Entertainment's Warden software, used to prevent hacking in the popular game World of Warcraft.
Of particular note, the founder of HBGary Federal, Aaron Barr, had authored a draft Powerpoint presentation on information warfare (IW) that was the subject of much interpretation by online reporters and bloggers.
[17] Less than six months later, the leader of LulzSec, Hector Xavier Monsegur (aka Sabu), had been secretly arrested by the FBI and turned into an informant against the rest of Anonymous.
HBGary admitted to working closely with law enforcement, and was later given credit for their assistance to the FBI in the investigation that lead to the arrest of the LulzSec leader Hector Xavier Monsegur (aka Sabu).
[20] Rootkit.com's original site administrators were Greg Hoglund, Charles Weidner (Handle Redacted), Fuzen_Op (Jamie Butler), Barns (Barnaby Jack), Caezar of GhettoHackers (Riley Eller), Talis (JD Glaser of NTObjectives), and Vacuum of Technotronic.
Rootkit.com was compromised in 2011 via Social engineering (security) as part of the LulzSec attack by Hector Xavier Monsegur (aka Sabu) and the user database was leaked.