They’re at it again. Or perhaps they never stopped. The last we heard from the Algerian hacking crew of anti-Israeli ISIS sympathizers called Team System DZ, they were exulting in very poor English about a string of over 200 defaces. The attacks… Read More ›
Welcome to All Hallows Eve Eve. Have you got your costume ready? Which is it to be: InfoSec Taylor Swift or Slutty Jian Ghomeshi? Perhaps an ISIS Social Media Consultant, with burnoose in a QR code pattern. If you’re all… Read More ›
Happy hump day, kittens! Grab yourself some warming caffeine and settle in for your morning homework. Hey, what are commutes for, amirite? That’s right: they are a carefully socially engineered phenomenon designed specifically to give North America and Europe enough… Read More ›
Today we’re pleased to welcome seasoned political journalist and editor Ian King to the Cryptosphere. His debut is this portrait of quiet Canadian hero Kevin Vickers, who took down Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, the would-be jihadi and crack addict who’d invaded Parliament… Read More ›
ObeyParty666:It’s a 24-hour fundraiser with an ambitious goal: to get the Paypal 14 closer to paying off the $86,000 restitution. The Paypal 14, you’ll recall (or fake it if you don’t) were charged with participating in the 2010 DDoS attack… Read More ›
This comes to us via an interested party, which is to say if he were to apply for this he’d be able to put his real world experience at it on his resume. In fact, he’d have a lock on… Read More ›
Good morning, kittens! There’s much news to cover, so we won’t keep you with a florid and lengthy introduction. We’re still exhausted and a little verklempt after interviewing Ken Goffman yesterday. To the links! Our Man in Riyadh (Jacobin) Kenny… Read More ›
Happy hump day, kittens! We made it safe and sound to a new base of operations in deepest, darkest Kitsilano and are reporting live from our bunker overlooking … well, pretty much all of Vancouver. So if the Gore-Tex vs… Read More ›
Happy Tuesday, kittens, and welcome to your favoritest link roundup of the day! We’ve been a little heavy on the war and a little light on the cyber lately, but we’re going to be very firm with ourselves from now… Read More ›
Happy Thursday, kittens! Time to plug in and light up your life with all the top news from around the web. We’re working on weaning ourselves off of paywall sites, but FP is hard to give up. Feel my… Read More ›
UPDATED TO ADD: Get the latest on Team System DZ here. And gee thanks, YouKnowWhoYouAreMajorUKNewspaper, for reading our articles and not linking to them. Well, somebody’s on a roll. Much to the chagrin of over 200 victims around the world, including… Read More ›
What do you mean? It is TOO hacking-related. Wait till you learn how great art is used to launder drug money, how it’s exchanged for illegal weapons, how it’s sanitized as it travels up the chain from B&E artiste to… Read More ›
Life is not easy for 30-year-old Matt DeHart. Just a few years ago he was doing well; as a trained Intelligence Analyst in the US Air National Guard he looked forward to a stable and glamorous career at the center of… Read More ›
Good afternoon, kittens! We had a lovely morning doing CPR on our apparently-deceased laptop and then heartlessly arranging for a replacement, all without spending a dime. Not as easy as it looks, particularly before the first coffee of the day…. Read More ›
Good morning, kittens! And how is your day progressing so far? Teeth brushed, hair (if any) combed, caffeine ingested? Excellent. You’re all ready for today’s newer, shorter, list of links. Because life is too small to link to paywalls, kittens…. Read More ›
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