Presented without further comment: Well, just one little comment: the actual Nobel Prize Twitter account has 165,000 Twitter followers. This upstart has only 17 at the time of posting this article. The real winners were the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet…. Read More ›
We have an update to our earlier story about the worldwide Facebook outages September 23/24 called #FacebookDown. That attack was attributed to unnamed and as-yet-unidentified hacktivists by Pirate Party activist and Cryptosphere contributor Raymond Johansen, and to an unheard-of collective… Read More ›
“The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” So, naturally, when Facebook went down, Twitter lit up, boosting the hashtag #Facebookdown to 40,000 tweets in approximately twelve hours. Looks like Zuckerberg finally worked out how to get #Facebook… Read More ›
That’s not cricket! Prolific pro-Muslim hacking crew AnonCoders, who emerged only a few months ago, have been on a tear lately, targeting websites in the UK particularly (full list below the interview), including the esteemed Gentleman’s Journal (although not The… Read More ›
No, contrary to a sudden flurry of loosely-sourced articles in the hacker and Muslim press, Hamza Bendelladj aka Bx1, spammer and co-creator of the SpyEye virus, has not been sentenced to death by a US jury. In fact, he hasn’t… Read More ›
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 ›
Much has happened within the Anonymous hive since Thursday night’s shooting death of an as-yet-officially-unnamed Anon at the hands of Dawson Creek RCMP officers. The officers had been called out to deal with a masked Anon who had reportedly ripped… Read More ›
Justice 4 Paul Castaway has announced there will be a second protest of his shooting death at the hands of Denver police, tonight at 8pm local time. This demonstration will take place at the shooting site, the Capitol City Mobile… 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 ›
“What’s wrong with you guys?” Those were the last words of Lakota man Paul Castaway, uttered last Sunday night as he died from four gunshot wounds to the torso, the bullets fired by a Denver police officer. Police were on… Read More ›
Will the Reddit news never cease? As the petition to ask CEO Ellen Pao to step down passes 200,000 signatures, the woman whose dismissal started the ruckus known as #TheDarkening or #RedditRevolt has returned to Reddit, if only to say… Read More ›
Reddit management strikes again! While the Reddit world (such as it is) was reeling from the abrupt firing of popular AMA coordinator Victoria Taylor, management snuck in some other “involuntary exits” including kickme444, the creator of the beloved, and justly… Read More ›
When Internet’s Front Page, 32nd most popular website in the world, and Conde Nast property Reddit is in an upheaval over moderators moderating (shutting down fat-shaming subreddits, for instance, although leaving r/coontown untouched), only one thing will distract it: Reddit… Read More ›
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 ›
“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 ›
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