This is the second article from Tyler L. Jones for The Cryptosphere. In it, he dissects the source code for an alleged Facebook zero day vulnerability. Social engineering. It’s one of the most powerful tools in an attacker’s toolkit. It… Read More ›
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Interwebbed: Cyber & Crypto News for May 5
Happy Cinco de Mayo, kittens. In the dreary, endless hours until Margarita O’Clock, we have all the crypto and cyber news that IS cheesily keyworded news links, right here for your delectication. So, what are you waiting for? Delect away!… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber & Crypto News for May 4
Welcome to Malware Monday, kittens! Don’t worry, we’re going to run out of these catchy, alliterative, and totally arbitrary keywords soon, but in the meantime, let’s get a fresh cup of java and prepare for the work week. It promises… Read More ›
#Anonymous launches #OpBaltimore
It had to happen. Anonymous Stands With #Baltimore. | #OpBaltimore — OpBaltimoreOfficial (@AnonOpBaltimore) May 1, 2015 In what’s become a completely inevitable pattern, in response to the death of a young black man at the hands of the police, Anonymous… Read More ›
Exclusive Interview with AnonGlobo of #Anonymous
AnonymousGlobo is one of those Anonymous Twitter accounts that simply seems to be ahead of everyone else; whatever it’s tweeting about right now will be all over the headlines in a week’s time, most likely for having been the victim of… Read More ›
One Day Only: The Hacker Wars is 99 Cents to Rent, $9.99 to Buy on Amazon
Today, May Day, 2015, The Hacker Wars, the definitive documentary account of hacktivism’s golden age, is on sale at Amazon.com. You can rent it for 99 cents or purchase it for $9.99, $12.99 for HD. If you haven’t seen this… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber & Crypto News for May 1
Hacky Friday, kittens! We’ve had a couple of days off to wrestle with tawdry IRL concerns, and we could not be happier to be back where we belong, in our mother’s basement, working on our monitor tans. We have far… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber & Crypto News for April 28
Is Baltimore still there? Keep refreshing your Google Earth to make sure, kittens; it’s at the stage where anything could happen, and probably will be caught on camera when it does. Yes, dude, you might just be a racist… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber & Crypto News for April 27
Black hat, grey hat, white hat, or Guy Fawkes mask, it’s time to gird your cranium and throw yourself headlong into the work week. We at The Cryptosphere Global HQ have been very busy on a couple of special projects… Read More ›
A (Secure) Chat with WikiLeaks
Today’s article comes to us from Interwebs Security correspondent Tyler L. Jones. It is his first appearance in the Cryptosphere. WikiLeaks is at it again. This time, in an effort to provide a method of secure communication between themselves and whistleblowers,… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for April 23
Hacking is thirsty work, kittens, so here’s to the slow, easy downhill jog to the weekend. Today we bring you a deception-focused cyber and crypto news roundup. Your Facebook homies? All Feds. Nonfiction spy memoir? Fiction! That perfectly ordinary London… Read More ›
#OpBeast: Exclusive Interview with the Victorious #Anonymous Team Behind #OpNullDenmark
Rape is an ugly thing. Rape of the helpless, even uglier. You know what’s beautiful? Victory. It’s rare than an Anonymous operation can declare complete victory, but OpNullDenmark has earned the right. They have (with a non-trivial amount of help… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for April 21
We have achieved Peak Nerd, kittens. Italian Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti took a selfie aboard the International Space Station in full Star Trek regalia, then tweeted it. There may be coffee in that there Nebula, as she claims, but there’s pure… Read More ›
Lorraine @raincoaster Murphy on AnonUK Radio: #Anonymous Haters Gonna Hate
There was a little kerfuffle in the interwebs recently, kittens, and your humble editor was at the centre of it, thanks to an interview last month with Passcode journalist (and Cryptosphere pal) Fruzsina Eordogh for an article called The Great… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for April 20
Deadly Kung Fu Con Men! Cyber-Hype! Counterinsurgency and the Slow Parade of Fears! Welcome to the first cyber news headline roundup of the rest of your life, kittens! We won’t stand in your way, so go to it! Facelift: How… Read More ›