Originally posted on Gigaom:
Late Tuesday, the terrorist group known as ISIS released a video that appeared to show members of the group beheading freelance journalist James Foley, who was kidnapped almost two years ago while reporting in Iraq. As…
Month: August 2014
The Return of UGNazi: Doxing the Governor of Missouri
They’re BACK! UGNazi was, in 2012 a seemingly-invincible hacking crew with heavy trollish leanings (as you can tell from the nomenclature and the icon) once made up of JoshTheGod, CosmoTheGod, and Mr0sama. Their attacks targeted organizations and government departments which… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Headlines for Crypto and Cyber News
What a tangled web we weave when first we attempt to weave in an unrelated Shakespeare quote to our morning link roundup. Today we’ve got more war, more Ferguson, but I repeat myself, duelling policing theories, and more. Quote of… Read More ›
Crypto Currently: Prices for Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, and Pandacoin
Well, thank god THAT’s over. It’s hard to say that stable cryptocurrency prices are sanity or not, but whatever it is, we has it. At least compared to yesterday. To celebrate the return of (in)sanity to the markets, we’re featuring… Read More ›
Google’s Plan To Let Kids Have Accounts: Bad Idea Or Acknowledgement Of Reality?
It’s not as if kids can’t figure out how to lie about their age. It’s great training for getting into night clubs!
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Hacked
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has revealed that between 2010 and 2013 it has been hacked three times successfully, with 17 attempts in total. Oddly, while the story is given prominent play on the UK Huffington Post, a search of the… Read More ›
The CIA Misapplies FOIA Exemptions to Continue its Covert Attack on Mandatory Declassification Review. And Why it Matters.
Originally posted on UNREDACTED:
…If you’re in the Security-Cleared Caste, that is. Inscribed at CIA Headquarters. On Friday September 23, 2011, the Central Intelligence Agency snuck two pages into the Federal Register –without a notice for public comment. These two…
Interwebbed: Crypto and Cyber Headlines for Tuesday
Today’s links are all about war, war, cyberwar, protests, militarization, war, Bitcoin, and war. Make that latte a double; you’re gonna need it! The Americans are coming! The Americans are coming! To wipe out your pirate sites! (Torrentfreak) The Electronic… Read More ›
Crypto Currently: Prices for Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, and a digression on just what the hell is going on right now
Well, short form: Nobody knows. Long form: Nobody knows but there are plenty of possible causes for the fact Bitcoin dropped a quarter of its value and fell through to the $400 benchmark. Everything tied to the Bitcoin math similarly… Read More ›
More than 1,100 German authors protest Amazon’s treatment of book publisher Bonnier
Originally posted on Gigaom:
While Amazon and Hachette’s contract battle drags on in the U.S., a similar fight is taking place in Germany between Amazon and book publisher Bonnier. Now 1,188 German, Austrian and Swiss authors have taken a cue…
Facebook To Point Out To Your Idiot Friends That The Onion Is Not Real News
Oh lord let it be true!
The Terrorists Have Been Sighted
Terrorists spotted protesting on the forrest moon of Endor. Emperor Palatine has deployed the National Guard in response…err Storm Troopers, we meant storm troopers… Does this remind anyone else of Pogo? I’m detecting some new resonances in the War… Read More ›
Will Julian Assange Leave the Ecuadorian Embassy Today?
He says he will actually walk out a free man “soon,” but not for the reason Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers claim, ill-health. His lawyer told RT he isn’t going anywhere. After two years snugly corralled in the Ecuadorian embassy in London,… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top News Headlines in Cyber and Crypto for Today
With no hacker conference this weekend, the news roundup will be sparser than it has been lately; not so many companies rushing to patch holes featured at presentations, you see. Not so many presenters announcing news bombs like “1.4 billion… Read More ›
Group of Anonymous hacktivists in Toronto protest treatment of asylum seeker Matt DeHart
Activists, not hackers. Protesting outside an embassy is not an act of hacking.
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