Originally posted on Hackmageddon.com:
It’s time to aggregate the stats of the August Cyber Attacks Timelines (Part I and Part II). As usual, let us start from the Daily Trend of Attacks, which shows quite a heterogeneous trend with…
Month: September 2014
Palantir Technologies Data-Mining Products Pricelist (December 2013)
$141,015.42 FORTY TWO CENTS? Proof positive Palantir is not only evil, it’s cray.
Face Of The Day
Originally posted on The Dish:
A young man chants as Muslims gather for Friday prayers on the street outside the Mevlana Moschee mosque on a nation-wide action day to protest against the Islamic State (IS) on September 19, 2014 in…
Bitcoin Slips Back Under $400
Good thing I put all my dosh in magic beans!
Facebook Releases New Data About National Security Requests
Thanks, Yahoo, for starting this conversation. Words I never thought I would say, for sure. The short form here is: Facebook admits that all the information they gave you before about how limited the government’s reach was…is bullshit. “We Continue… Read More ›
Welcome Home w0rmer! Higinio Ochoa III is Released
Anons and hacktivists rejoice! Higinio Ochoa III, aka w0rmer of C4bin Cr3w, is a free man. Well, free-ish. Having served nearly 25 months of his 27 months sentence for unauthorized access of protected computers, he was released yesterday to his family. It’s… Read More ›
IPFS Is A Global, Versioned, Peer-to-Peer Filesystem
Originally posted on LibertasIntel:
The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a peer-to-peer distributed file system that seeks to connect all computing de- vices with the same system of files. In some ways, IPFS is similar to the Web, but IPFS…
Review: Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Digital Underground
Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground is the story of a morally ambiguous protagonist who was never, not for one second, morally ambiguous in his own mind. The story of a man who stole tens of… Read More ›
Group Makes Debt Disappear, Pays $3.9M Toward For-Profit Students’ Outstanding Private Loans
A group that used to specialize in paying off medical debt has now expanded into the student debt field, paying off the debts of delinquent yet hardworking students while actually making money. Now THAT is what we call a radical… Read More ›
Quote For The Day II
Originally posted on The Dish:
“For some time I have been disturbed by the way CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government. This has led…
Word of the Day: “Deconflicting”
John Kerry swears the US is not going to cooperate with the Assad regime in Syria against ISIS. No way. Not a chance. The US is simply going to “deconflict.” Which sounds great, the same way “truthiness” does. When reporters… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto #News (yes I hashtagged it, sue me!) for September 17
Well kittens, it’s Hump Day and we hope you’re humping along just fine this week. If not, we hope this gif offers you solace and inspiration, much like the Julian Assange post from yesterday. Here are some news stories to… Read More ›
Snowden Leaks DID NOT Impact Terrorist Communication/Encryption Tactics – Flashpoint Report
Confirming what we’ve previously heard: Edward Snowden’s revelations have not acted as a warning to jihadis, ISIS or Al Qaeda. In fact, they’ve hardly even poked the American People into using the encryption tools that are free and available to… Read More ›
Bottom Line, People Are Fed Up. The System Has Failed. And People Are Starting To Realize It
Originally posted on LibertasIntel:
Gallup released a new poll late last week showing how many (or few, as it were) Americans are ‘satisfied’ with the direction of the country. 23%. That’s it. 76% are NOT satisfied. Only 1% aren’t sure.…
Julian Assange Speaks! In a Reddit AMA and a Gawker Q&A
Julian Assange, founder, editor, and publisher of WikiLeaks, has a book to sell: When Google Met Wikileaks, and unlike juicy leaks, hardcovers don’t sell themselves. Consequently today he hit the interwebs and he hit them hard. First he did a Question… Read More ›
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