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• Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for April 20

  By raincoaster on April 20, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Deadly Kung Fu Con Men! Cyber-Hype! Counterinsurgency and the Slow Parade of Fears! Welcome to the first cyber news headline roundup of the rest of your life, kittens! We won’t stand in your way, so go to it! Facelift: How… Read More ›

• Penticton woman held against her will in care home for more than 2 years

  By raincoaster on April 17, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Unthinkable, yet OpLiberation from Anonymous told us about dozens of similar cases in schools for troubled children. It’s just a matter of time before we learn about more examples of this in abuse of the elderly and the mentally ill.

• Interwebbed: #Cyber & #Crypto #News for April 17

  By raincoaster on April 17, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  TGIF, kittens, by which we mean Thank the Gibson it’s Firefox, of course. Why, what did you think we meant? A dramatic week comes to a close, heralding, no doubt, a dramatic weekend. Here’s all the 411 you need* to… Read More ›

• Saskatoon police creating guns and gangs unit

  By raincoaster on April 16, 2015 • ( 0 )

  The encroachment of late 20th Century culture into Saskatoon. We didn’t think it would ever happen either.

• #WikiLeaks Releases All the Hacked Sony Emails and Documents

  By raincoaster on April 16, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Blame Korea! No, blame the FBI! No, blame disgruntled employees! No, blame Sabu! Whoever hacked Sony late last year, releasing tantalizingly gossipy emails that ultimately cost Amy Pascal her career there, they can now add “edited and distributed by WikiLeaks”… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for April 16

  By raincoaster on April 16, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Happy Thursday, kittens! Want to be an underground drug kingpin? We’ve gotcha covered. Remember the War on Terror? Yeah, how’s that going? We’ve got the latest in Crooked Deputy News, hacktivists around the world, and more! US EVERYWHERE! (Reuters) Americans… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for April 14

  By raincoaster on April 14, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Welcome back to your cyberwar and hacktivism news home page! We’ve had a frantic couple of days of going mobile, but are now secreted in our new high-security bunker overlooking an undisclosed location and just around the corner from the… Read More ›

• Everything They Don’t Tell You: When Hackers Talk To The Press (Ethics, Fiction and Fact)

  By raincoaster on April 12, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on AltSciFi – Independent science fiction and futurescience.:
  One theme (or “subtext”) of AltSciFi is to highlight the ways in which science journalism is often better categorized as science fiction. The points and comments outlined below are culled…

• A timeline of marijuana laws in Canada

  By raincoaster on April 11, 2015 • ( 1 )

  In case the Canadian laws have you confused. Never transport pot over an international border, though. Just do what Hunter S. Thompson would have done and smoke it all before you cross.

• The ABC’s of APT

  By raincoaster on April 10, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on Bromium Labs:
  Here at Bromium Labs, we’re always striving to further our knowledge of the rapidly-changing attack landscape that threatens our enterprise customers. Over the past few months, our dedicated team of researchers have collectively developed a severe…

• #Sabu Week Bonus: Adrian Lamo is Bradley Manning; Sabu is not Adrian Lamo

  By raincoaster on April 10, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  Definitely the Facebook post of the Day, coming to us direct from Norwegian Pirate Party activist Raymond Johansen: In case that doesn’t load for you, it says: This is ‪#‎SnitchDay‬ | now here is Snitch vs “Snitch” competing to see… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for April 10

  By raincoaster on April 10, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Hair hacking, anti-bullying, proponents of pink; yeah, we’re not talking about American cops today. Toronto Police officer Luke Watson went pink to support the annual Day of Pink to stop bullying; his colleague Ryan Willmer tweeted the picture, along with… Read More ›

• Hezbollah likely behind malware that attacked Israeli servers

  By raincoaster on April 9, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  Volatile Cedar has been known for some time, but this is the first time anyone has definitely (rather than “let’s pick the obvious group”) tied it to Hezbollah.

• Exclusive: Interview with #OpIsrael Hackers from #Anonymous, #AnonGhost, #IzzahHackers

  By raincoaster on April 9, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  #opisrael for solidarity with Palestine.  #opisrael for raising awareness about the Palestinian people.  They are under the israeli occupation for 67 years.   It’s time for Palestinians to live in peace, freedom, dignity.  That was the reply, from hackers within #OpIsrael,… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for April 9

  By raincoaster on April 9, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  We’re baaaaaaack! After chasing a couple of stories far too hard we are back, with all the cyber news that IS cyber news and also buzzwords, hashtags, and jargon to boot! D’oh, I always forget to put the keywords in… Read More ›