And we’re back! Still slightly feverish, and three pounds lighter, but nothing to worry about, kittens. Let’s not think of it as a lost day of work; let’s think of it as that time I finally broke through the Level… Read More ›
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Interwebbed: Crypto and Cyber #News for October 3
TGIF, kittens! Raise a yellow umbrella and a cup of a cheering beverage to the end of the work week and the start of…a weekend of recovery from the work week? Sure, let’s go with that. The tear gas continues… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for September 30
Welcome to Tuesday! While you were asleep a great number of very interesting things happened. And here they all are! US attacks foreigners: FBI warns of a retaliatory flood of hacktivism (but wait, I thought Anonymous was anti-ISIS? Could this be… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Cyber and Crypto News for September 26
Friends! Kittens! Governments! Lend me your ears (and maybe a fifty while you’re at it, just until the Paypal clears the bank)! It’s time for our wrap up links for this long week, time to launch into the weekend. God… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Cyber and Crypto Headlines for September 23 and 24
Welcome to our late afternoon double-stacked linkdump. The Cryptosphere has finally moved into the new offices, shared with an unnamed community radio station, and they are swank indeed. I could podcast to my heart’s content with this setup, if it weren’t heavy… Read More ›
Review: Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Digital Underground
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 ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto #News (yes I hashtagged it, sue me!) for September 17
Well kittens, it’s Hump Day and we hope you’re humping along just fine this week. If not, we hope this gif offers you solace and inspiration, much like the Julian Assange post from yesterday. Here are some news stories to… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto Headlines for September 11
Did you miss us? We did more than our part in the internet slowdown protests of 9/10 by slowing to a complete halt…for twenty hours, while our computer ran a virus scan. Redundancy: not always a bad thing. Must… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Crypto and Cyber News for Tuesday, September 9
It’s Tuesday, people, only Tuesday, but you’ll make it. I mean, it’s not so bad, is it, this week? Last supermoon of the summer, first snows up in Alberta, and your life could be a lot worse: you could be… Read More ›
IMF Chief in Fraud Investigation Scandal
Oh joy, it’s Schadenfreude Day! IMF head Christine Lagarde is being investigated in connection with possible fraud for her role, as Finance Minister, in a convoluted series of events stemming from a €400 lawsuit which was decided in favour of… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Crypto and Cyber Headlines for Thursday, August 28
Thursday’s child has, apparently, far to go. But we have only about 36 little hours to go until the weekend, so grab these attractively-arrayed stair wires and hang in there. We’ve got your news headlines to make the time pass… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News Roundup for Tuesday, August 26
We’ve got a massive roundup for you today, but don’t worry: there will not, repeat NOT, be a quiz later. Which is a good thing because I don’t have time to write one! To the news!!! Amateur detective tracks down… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Crypto and Cyber News for Thursday
We might as well make Ferguson its own column here, as half the daily links seem to be Fergified. Mind you, if they keep arresting the reporters, there will soon be less Ferguson news. Police Officer to Media in Ferguson:… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top News Headlines in Cyber and Crypto for Today
With no hacker conference this weekend, the news roundup will be sparser than it has been lately; not so many companies rushing to patch holes featured at presentations, you see. Not so many presenters announcing news bombs like “1.4 billion… Read More ›
Rallies for imprisoned Anon Matt DeHart Scheduled This Weekend
Matt DeHart, a former American drone pilot and soldier and past participant in Anonymous actions, is in prison in Canada, awaiting extradition to the US, which seeks him on child pornography charges, charges he and his family claim are a… Read More ›
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