Happy hump day, kittens. It’s a long haul from here to the next holiday, particularly if you are a geek of pristine antecedents and spotless reputation if not wardrobe (ie Forever Alone) and Valentine’s Day just means chocolate at half… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for November 6
Happy Thursday, kittens! We at the Cryptosphere have some news for you (geddit?). We’ve just been accepted by Google News, so we’ll be playing with the Big Boys now and will be much, much less likely to have cause for… Read More ›
Faking it: Facebook Fraud Exposed
Every big-money corporation attracts fraud, for the same reason Dillinger used to rob banks. “That’s where the money is.” This video will introduce you to a type of Facebook fraud that may, at first glance, appear harmless. In reality, it’s… Read More ›
Pro-ISIS hackers Team System DZ take on Sweden
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 ›
Interwebbed: Crypto and Cyber News for October 28
I shall never be silent. Because that’s lousy for hits. Welcome to Tuesday, kittens. In glamourous Scamcouver it’s a moist, drizzly morning illuminated by neon reflected in greasy puddles and tail lights receeding into the distance, desperately questing for the… Read More ›
Astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins Show You What Badass Looks Like
It looks like this, kittens. It looks like this. Nearly 10,000 Likes, and 5,500 Shares. For those of you big Buzz fans out there (which is all of us, really) his WhoSay is pretty awesome too.
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for October 21
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 ›
Team System Dz goes on hacking spree
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 ›
Nymwars II: Facebook Welcomes Drag Queens, Bans weev. UPDATE: and he’s BACK!
Congratulations, Facebook! You finally acknowledged peoples’ right to be known by the names they choose. Last week you acceded to demands from the LGBT community and acknowledged that drag queens would be able to have personal profiles under their drag… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for October 08
And the headlines just keep on coming, kittens! While we were momentarily sidetracked with the buzz around the first-on-then-off tv series based on that Cusack classic Say Anything, the world turned, so did many special agents, and so here we… Read More ›
#Anonymous re-launches #OpSafeWinter for the Homeless
OpSafeWinter, one of Anonymous’ most effective non-hacking Ops, is back (not that it actually went away) and we’ve got an interview with the international team behind it. As is traditional, the interviewees declined to identify themselves, other than as organizers… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News Digest for September 25
Good morning, kittens! Still recovering from our 34 link dump from yesterday? Well, there there, today we’ll go a little easier on you. And besides, looks like most hackers (or at least most hacker reporters) took most of Tuesday off…. Read More ›
Facebook TANGODOWN: Exclusive Interview with @Unvealings of #Unknownsec
https://twitter.com/Cy63rp0isoN/status/507265728547147776 Well, as everyone in the known universe knows by now, Facebook was down yesterday for a period of time between 15 and 30 minutes, during which the world collectively lost its shit and dug out its dormant Twitter accounts… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Cyber and Crypto News for Wednesday, August 27
Today we’re featuring trolls, dark markets, drones, racists, banks, and idiots, among other fragrant denizens of The Cryptosphere. Enjoy? And make sure your shots are up to date before clicking. Black Market Cannabis Road Hacked, $100,000 in Bitcoin Lost (Coindesk)… 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 ›