Today is the first day of the rest of #SabuWeek, kittens! I’ll bet you’re excited! Yes, for the next five days we will feature one article a day on the social-climbingest, hottub-hoppingest snitch since Judas Iscariot. We promise crunchy tidbits of… Read More ›
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Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for March 20
It’s Friday, kittens, and you know what that means! Yup, time to switch gears from worrying about security at work to worrying about security at home. Have teenage kids? Good luck sleeping nights! Remember, your first line of defence is… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for March 18
Holy hangovers, Batman! More than a few Cyberwar Superheroes will be laying low today, methinks, having lost a battle with the dread green kryptonite of Shamrock Shake Jamesons Shooters a mere few hours ago. The taste of regret is bittersweet…and a… Read More ›
Crisis at the State Department: an Op/Ed by Joe Fionda
This is Strike Two. Daniel Rosen, U.S. State Department Counterterrorism Director of Policy & Planning, was arrested three weeks ago for sexual solicitation of a 14 year old girl. He has again been arrested. This time, Rosen was charged in the District… Read More ›
Tweets o’ the Day: Daily #Sabu vs #Anonymous
Well, @DailySabu vs Anonymous and AntiSec and LulzSec and everything beautiful or decent in this world. Which is why it’s so wonderfully, marvelously, deliciously awful. I invented a computer on display at SXSW that runs on the tears of Jeremy… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for March 16
Hackers and Hectors and Humint, oh my! What a weekend it’s been, kittens! The now-infamous Sabu and Stuckey Hot Tub Party Vine has gifted the Cryptosphere with its biggest day ever, a single human hair shy of the magical 10,000 marker…. Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Friday, March 13
TGIF, kittens! It’s Friday the 13th again, so insert gratuitous bad luck joke here. While we’re waiting for you to chuckle at our randomly inserted topical witticism, we’ll give you the top news links to carry you through the weekend…. Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for March 12
Welcome to Thursday, or as we like to call it at Global Cryptosphere HQ, “Weekend’s Eve.” Actually that sounds like a feminine hygiene product for use by perimenopausal carnies, doesn’t it? Yeah, forget I said anything at all. Here are some… Read More ›
Reprints: #FuckSabu and Here’s Why
This is a reprint from my personal blog from two years ago. If you’ve been following the #OpDDD story so far, you’ll know why it’s a timely read. At the time it was written, we didn’t yet know that the… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for March 11
Oh man, I’d hang out at cafes a lot more if I could get Absinthe there. I don’t even like Absinthe, I just like the idea I could get it if I wanted to. If what I really wanted was… Read More ›
Listen: AnonUKRadio Featuring Lauri Love and Tor Ekeland
This past Sunday we were (I was) delighted to be back on my favorite internet radio station, AnonUKRadio, and chewing the fat and the lean with some of my favourite people. There’s just no way NOT to have a good… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for March 10
Psssst. Hey. Hey. You awake? That’s what a lot of activists would like to ask you and billions of other people today. We’re here with our mumbo-jumbo-destroying roundup of the top actual news in cyberwar, hacktivism, and related fields. Let’s… Read More ›
Spam Is A Numbers Game: Brian Krebs on Unsolicited Email
Spam: once a gross meat-like substance sold in tins that could probably survive a nuclear apocalypse. Now, it’s the stuff that clogs your inbox: penis pills and health insurance and lottery winnings and nursing degrees and whatever else spammers think… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for March 9
Happy Monday, kittens! Are you enjoying your lamby-or-leonine March so far? Already sick of New Formula Easter Creme Eggs? I hear ya; it’s the biggest scandal to happen to a digestible since New Coke. The horror. The horror. Where’d I… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for March 6
You made it to Friday, kittens! Raise a glass of something cheerful, even if only chamomile tea: the weekend is almost here! Now let’s give you all the headline news you need to sound like the most fascinating person at… Read More ›