We have achieved Peak Nerd, kittens. Italian Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti took a selfie aboard the International Space Station in full Star Trek regalia, then tweeted it. There may be coffee in that there Nebula, as she claims, but there’s pure… Read More ›
There was a little kerfuffle in the interwebs recently, kittens, and your humble editor was at the centre of it, thanks to an interview last month with Passcode journalist (and Cryptosphere pal) Fruzsina Eordogh for an article called The Great… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
#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 ›
Happy Easter, kittens! Like Jesus, we shall arise in three days (if we give ourselves the hangover we are expecting tonight). Unlike Jesus, we shall report on hacktivism and cyberwar news when we return. See you Tuesday!
It’s We The People Wednesday, kittens, and today’s roundup features a whole mess of … mess from the political establishment when it comes to your digital rights. Coffee in hand, tea in Boston Harbour? Excellent, let’s begin. Inside America’s Toughest… Read More ›
Happy hump day, kittens! We’re a little pressed for time today and our only source of energy at Cryptosphere HQ is Nescafe, so we’ll cut to the chase as they say in the media and the cliche’d intro text blurbs…. Read More ›
Today at 10:30am Eastern Standard Time, Paul and Leann DeHart, parents of imprisoned Anon and ex-US-soldier Matt DeHart, will cross back over the Peace Bridge from Canada, the land in which they’d hoped to build a new life free of… Read More ›
Israelis will have another traditional plague to contend with this Passover: the annual return of OpIsrael from the more militant and frequently Muslim branches of Anonymous. Every year since 2012 has seen the return of OpIsrael in greater or lesser strength,… Read More ›
It’s Random Attack Day, kittens! Why does China hate Github? Why does the Ukraine hate Rutgers? Why do Anons hate Anons? Bloggers jailed! Protesters kettled! Of our several-day involuntary hiatus from the interwebs we shall not speak, except to say… Read More ›
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