In the wake of the RCMP killing of masked Anon James McIntyre in Dawson Creek, BC, Anonymous operations against the Canadian government continue. The weekend saw the leaking of more Secret government documents and the temporary disappearance of the RCMP… Read More ›
Cryptosphere contributor, Occupy stalwart, and dedicated Adrian Lamo heckler Lauri Love has been arrested in the UK, and after two years of sparring, a request for extradition has been filed by the US. He faces no charges in the United Kingdom:… Read More ›
“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 ›
Welcome to Malware Monday, kittens! Don’t worry, we’re going to run out of these catchy, alliterative, and totally arbitrary keywords soon, but in the meantime, let’s get a fresh cup of java and prepare for the work week. It promises… Read More ›
An interesting, but arguable, infographic coming to us today from the Financial Times. Is Kevin Mitnick really bigger than the guys that hacked Target, Home Depot, Bebe, and virtually every fast food restaurant in the US? I think he’s just… Read More ›
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 ›
Yesterday a small Milwaukee security company of which you have probably never heard broke the news that a group of nameless twentysomething Russian hackers had acquired a collection of 1.2 billion username/password combinations, the largest such collection in history. The internet,… Read More ›
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