Wow, who knew the cryptocurrency market was so popular among retro-footwear enthusiasts? Seriously, I’m sure I had at least two pairs of those shoes in the 80’s. WHERE DID YOU FIND THEM CALL ME PEOPLE???? Ah, the heady days of… Read More ›
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Crypto Currently: Prices for Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin and Defcoin
Defcon, pretty much the biggest deal in the Hacker Con World, has its own cryptocurrency. Of course it does. Defcoin, tagline “Most of us are not that evil,” is launching this week at the famed Defcon 22 conference in Las… Read More ›
CyberVor: Understanding the billion password hack
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 ›
Edward Snowden’s Lawyer Wolfgang Kalek Speaks!
I like this guy; he stresses repeatedly that this is a long game, not a momentary blip. He specifically mentions a one, three or five year viewpoint on the Snowden case, in terms of negotiations to enable him to return… Read More ›
Crypto Currently: Going Prices for Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, and Anoncoin
Well, that’s a fine piece of street art if we do say so ourselves. Not that we painted it, but when the Revolution comes we’ll happily saw it out of that bourgeois brick with an air chisel and cart… Read More ›
Crypto Currently and Late Links: Current Prices for Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin and Argentumcoin
Almost to the weekend, kittens! And in the scenic province of British Columbia in Glorious Best Republic of Canuckistan, it’s a long weekend at that. So without further preface here are the prices for top crypto and one alt currencies,… Read More ›
State Department Leaked Talking Points: Read Them Here
“This report tells a story of which no American is proud.” Unnamed, Presumably Now Mortified, US State Department Employee Indeed, the faceless employee was referring to the story of the CIA’s systematic use of torture to interrogate prisoners, but he… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Crypto and Cyber News for Today
As we get over hump day and stagger desperately towards the weekend which shimmers in the distance like the promise of redemption, the international news comes faster and faster, as aides-de-camp (des-camps?) shove press release after press release under the… Read More ›
Crypto Currently: Opening Prices for Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, and Auroracoin
Let the nightshine in! It’s time to let Auroracoin light up our lives! Yeah, I’ve been writing ad copy today. How can you tell? Anyhoodle, in today’s mainstream and alt cryptocurrency roundup we’re featuring Auroracoin, a rebel Icelandic (but… Read More ›
Neil McDonald: Grey Hat Black Listed
A computer hacking statute codified in 1961 (yes, before what we think of computers existed) is being wielded against Kiwi grey hat hacker Neil McDonald. His mistake was (in the short form) offering a company information about its weaknesses when… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Global Cyber and Crypto Headlines
With the situation in the Ukraine, the situation in Gaza, and the situation on Twitter, it’s a busier day than normal in the Cryptosphere, so we decided to push out our daily link roundup a bit early. Here’s all the top news from around the globe.
“We have just shot down a plane,” Rebels report to Russia
The government of the Ukraine has released what it says are recordings from tapped phones, recordings of rebel, pro-Russian militants calling their leaders in Russia itself, taking responsibility for downing Malaysian Airlines flight MH17. The plane crashed yesterday near the border… Read More ›
Massive Botnet Attacks Overnight: watch live!
Someone in China hates someone in Seattle. A. Lot. Over the past few hours, botnet attack tracker Norse: IPViking Live has been displaying, in real time, an enormous series of attacks around the world. First most active in Asia and… Read More ›
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