It’s hump day, kittens! Have you been humping along well so far this week? Terrific. Now get off my leg. It’s your favorite time of day; no, not beer o’clock. Unless you’re bohemian that way and like to start… Read More ›
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Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for September 30
Welcome to Tuesday! While you were asleep a great number of very interesting things happened. And here they all are! US attacks foreigners: FBI warns of a retaliatory flood of hacktivism (but wait, I thought Anonymous was anti-ISIS? Could this be… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto #News for September 15
We’re back from our wireless vacay, pirating the wifi in a pirate radio station off the Left Coast. There’s a big, hairy dog on the floor, a discussion of minimum wage on the air, and while there is no picture… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto Headlines for September 11
Did you miss us? We did more than our part in the internet slowdown protests of 9/10 by slowing to a complete halt…for twenty hours, while our computer ran a virus scan. Redundancy: not always a bad thing. Must… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Crypto and Cyber News for Tuesday, September 9
It’s Tuesday, people, only Tuesday, but you’ll make it. I mean, it’s not so bad, is it, this week? Last supermoon of the summer, first snows up in Alberta, and your life could be a lot worse: you could be… Read More ›
Unknownsec Doxes Stormfront Capo, Attacks Site in #OpWBKKK
True to its promise of last week, the hacker crew known as Unknownsec has gone after allies of the KKK, taking the White Supremacist site Stormfront offline with a massive botnet attack Friday night and doxing the heck out of its leader,… Read More ›
Unknownsec announces #OpWBKKK against the Westboro Baptist Church and the Ku Klux Klan
UnknownSec, this week’s hot new crew on the block, isn’t wasting any time. Two days ago they took down Facebook more or less by accident, testing out a botnet they claim they didn’t think would be powerful enough to effect… Read More ›
Interwebbed: TGIF Cyber and Crypto Headlines for Friday, August 5
Welcome to Friday, kittens! We made it! Neither hacking attempts, nor lame-o hate mail, nor the NSA, GCHQ, or Royal Canuckian Mounted Police could stop us this first week of September. Having luxuriated in probably the first Labour Day I’ve… Read More ›
Facebook TANGODOWN: Exclusive Interview with @Unvealings of #Unknownsec
https://twitter.com/Cy63rp0isoN/status/507265728547147776 Well, as everyone in the known universe knows by now, Facebook was down yesterday for a period of time between 15 and 30 minutes, during which the world collectively lost its shit and dug out its dormant Twitter accounts… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Crypto and Cyber Headlines for Thursday, August 28
Thursday’s child has, apparently, far to go. But we have only about 36 little hours to go until the weekend, so grab these attractively-arrayed stair wires and hang in there. We’ve got your news headlines to make the time pass… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Cyber and Crypto News for Monday
Welcome to your week. Somebody was surely shot over the weekend, but as far as we know there haven’t been any riots over it, so this week is already better than last week, right? Right? Clutching at straws here, people…. Read More ›
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Hacked
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has revealed that between 2010 and 2013 it has been hacked three times successfully, with 17 attempts in total. Oddly, while the story is given prominent play on the UK Huffington Post, a search of the… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top News Headlines in Cyber and Crypto for Today
With no hacker conference this weekend, the news roundup will be sparser than it has been lately; not so many companies rushing to patch holes featured at presentations, you see. Not so many presenters announcing news bombs like “1.4 billion… Read More ›
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