Okay, so it’s Monday, and that’s never good, but at least you’re not in Syria, right? 22 air strikes and counting. Well, back here where it’s comfy and safe, sometimes too comfy and safe, we can read the news instead… Read More ›
Anonymous
#BreakTheInternet: #Anonymous Sabu is Back, Bitches!
Hector Xavier Monsegur, better known as the Anonymous, LulzSec, and AntiSec firebrand turned FBI informant Sabu, is back on Twitter. Many thanks to @danstuckey for getting this account back after 3 years of dormancy. https://t.co/Nwv66yMVTe #IMBAAAAAAACCKKK — Hector X. Monsegur… Read More ›
An Interview with PH1K3 the #NSA Email #Hacker
“Alleged” NSA email hacker, that is, although he seems plenty eager to discuss it publicly. On May 15, we brought you the exclusive story of a hack of the NSA’s backup email server, a server maintained, ironically, not by the… Read More ›
Matt DeHart’s Case on AnonUK Radio
This past Sunday your humble editor was a guest, along with Cryptospherians Raymond Johansen and Kitty Hundal, on Anon UK Radio. The cast of characters includes The Dread Pirate Bailey, StLouisGal, your host G3arhead, your other host T0p, and regular… Read More ›
Enforced Transparency 4 – The Whistleblowers Bravery
This is another in the ongoing series on Enforced Transparency by Raymond Johansen and Kitty Hundal, featured here on the Cryptosphere as well as their own site, HacktivistCulture, with related articles on the Fifth Column News, and HackRead. This article… Read More ›
#Pwnd: Lauri Love, Accused Hacker, Forces Government to Return Seized Computers
Lauri Love, the Brit/Scot/Finn accused of hacking into multiple US government computers including those of NASA, the EPA, the US Army, the New York Federal Reserve Bank, and the US Missile Defence System, has successfully confronted the UK government, and… Read More ›
The Cryptosphere goes to camp: Social Media Camp this Friday!
It’s that time of year, kittens: the time when we pack up the Cray, break out the cutoffs, and head to glorious Victoria, BC, to present a talk at Social Media Camp, the premiere conference of its kind in Canada,… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for May 20
Claw your way through this, the meatiest link roundup on the intertubes, as we fetch ourselves another saucer of milk. We need to build up our strength for the rest of the week… The Barrett Brown Review of Arts and… Read More ›
Rebuilding Communities and Identities with USB sticks and Love by AnonyOdinn
This is another thoughtful long read from our old pal Anony Odinn; it originally appeared at Cyberguerrilla. Get yourself a full cup of some stimulating beverage and get ready for a mind-expanding experience. “Where there is preparation there is no fear.”… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber & Crypto News for May 19
Zoinks, looks like Scooby Doo was real life after all. When I was little, I thought that when you became a teenager you were given a van and either an English Sheepdog or a Great Dane, and you and your… Read More ›
Meet the Lorax: Tonight on AnonOps Radio
Tonight on AnonOps Radio, it’ll be Back to the Future time, as the hosts dedicate the entire show to fallen (arrested) colleague and former host, Adam Bennett, aka Lorax. Once the most popular radio host in Anonymous, with his own… Read More ›
#Anonymous Sweden hacks the #NSA, mentions of hack wiped from #Facebook, #LinkedIn
DⒶʀKᙡiNɢ ಠ_ರೃ , a Swede associated with Anonymous, has claimed a new, and rather relentless, hack of the US National Security Agency’s email server. Nothing so mundane as username/password combinations, the Pastebin of the hack lists the methodology and blow-by-blow… Read More ›
Y2K!!!1!
Thank you, kittens! As of today your clickety-clicks have brought The Cryptosphere to 2000 Likes on Fedbook, 1724 Followers on Twitter (where we are, counterintuitively, @_cryptosphere), three or four retweets from WikiLeaks (swoon!), 260,000 views, mentions in Time, PC Week,… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for May 14
It’s Thursday, kittens, all day, and there’s nothing we can do about it except shotgun another doppio and catch up on the news, in which we read that the app we just used to pay for our coffee has been… Read More ›
Enforced Transparency 2—When Hacking Becomes Imperative
JEREMY HAMMOND – the original enforcer Before Snowden, before the mainstreaming of Hacktivism, and before most of us even knew what private intelligence contractors where up to, one brave activist stepped up and blew the lid off a story so big it actually… Read More ›
The Cryptosphere 