Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for September 11

By raincoaster on September 11, 2015 • ( 0 )

Apple Eye gif via Jim Cooke on Gawker

We made it to Friday, kittens! With a little help from a long weekend and a LOT of technical difficulties, the posting schedule has been inadvertently light at Cryptosphere Global HQ this week, and for that we apologize. Still thanks to our two-week-old debunking of the hang-Hamza-the-hacker-rumour, hits have never been better! He may or may not have donated $280 million to Palestine, but we thank him for the lovely pair of cowboy boots he bought us, if inadvertently. If it keeps up all month, he’ll buy us a new computer and solve our hardware woes!

Inshallah.

And now, kittens, I expect you’d like to read some news, wouldn’t you? Well, pour a saucer of cream and get ready for the roundup, it’s a doozy!

Newest cyber threat will be data manipulation, US intelligence chief says (Guardian)

DOD Manual Declares Military Officers Have the Right to Detain Journalists as “Unprivileged Belligerents” (RebelNews)

5 security tips for businesses (and everyone else!) (NakedSecurity)

James Bond got conned (PublicIntegrity)

Internet Troll Arrested for Alleged Plot to Bomb 9/11 Memorial Event (Gawker)

How we cracked millions of Ashley Madison bcrypt hashes efficiently (CynoSurePrime)

Exclusive: 50 Spies Say ISIS Intelligence Was Cooked (DailyBeast)

First Library to Support Anonymous Internet Browsing Effort Stops After DHS Email (ProPublica)

EU: Parliament just came out in favour of Snowden, open-source, encryption, digital freedom and anonymity (Hax)

World’s Biggest Data Breaches (InformationIsBeautiful)