Today General Lloyd J. Austin III, commander of CENTCOM, posted to CENTCOM’s Facebook page a letter to CENTCOM members and supporters apologizing for the pro-ISIS Twitter and YouTube hack yesterday. The letter did not specifically assign blame or describe the… Read More ›
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The #CyberCaliphate vs US #CENTCOM
The latest skirmish in the Propaganda Wars has all the elements of farce, many of the elements of a mystery, and quite a few of the elements of FUD. Hey @BarackObama next time tell #CENTCOM that "Waterboarding" is a weak… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Jan 9
TG to the IF, kittens! We made it through the first full week of 2015 and so far, so … so … so much like last year, actually. It gets better, right? It gets better! That’s what the Youtube videos… Read More ›
#Anonymous wishes Jeremy Hammond Happy Birthday with Children’s Book Project
Jeremy Hammond, the AntiSec anarchist activist and hacker who liberated the Global Intelligence Files ie about 5 million private emails, passwords, and more, from private intelligence contractor Stratfor and handed them over to WikiLeaks via a series of cloak and… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Crypto and Cyber News for Jan 7
Hello again, kittens! Happy what-is-it WEDNESDAY! That’s it, Wednesday. All day. Happy Wednesday, and truly, were two less-likely sentencemates ever cobbled together to provide a desperately-reaching link roundup intro? I think not. I very much think not. And so to… Read More ›
2014 in The Cryptosphere
So it is with a hopeful heart and a Godzilla haiku with which we say goodbye to 2014 and hello to whatever tinfoil-reinforcing insanity 2015 will bring. Our first year has been a good one, overall. While we missed our… Read More ›
Stay #Anonymous: Security Guidelines for Making Your Own VPN
This article by ro0ted is a follow-up to his post of yesterday on the best secure VPN. And yes, it’s well above the pay grade of most of our readers (and staff) but this is a true hacker’s approach. We… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Dec 31 2015
Well, we don’t know what your 2014 was like, but ours was a daily and endless reminder that Eris is the most patient, enduring, and irresistible god. It was an unceasing progression of chaos, during which we only achieved equilibrium… Read More ›
Jeremy Hammond: I’m an #Anonymous hacker in prison, and I am not a crook. I’m an activist
https://freeanons.org/ This is a guest post stolen wholesale from the Guardian’s Comment Is Free (which does not pay contributors, so we don’t feel guilty in the least). Jeremy Hammond is currently serving ten years for his part in the Stratfor… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Dec 23
Happy Tuesday, kittens! Still going in to work? Well, nobody’s going to expect too much of you today, so here are some conversation starters. If the internet attacks we’ve seen on US targets overnight continue, I’m afraid you’re going to… Read More ›
Dear Brother, “Leader” of LulzSec
This is a guest post stolen wholesale from Pastebin, where Ryan Ackroyd aka Kayla posted it on December 20th. It has made the rounds of social media over the weekend and is an incendiary, no-holds-barred calling-out of Hector Xavier Monsegur… Read More ›
Barrett Brown of #Anonymous Sentenced Today: Watch the Full Arrest Video
And by “full” we mean with several minutes of post-arrest porn cut out of it. Yes, this is what happens when you get busted and manhandled by the Federal Bureau of Investigations: people in your chat session upload porn while… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Monday, Dec 15
Hello again, kittens! Did you miss me while I was on my gloriously luxurious, if fever-ridden, hiatus? Well, I still have the fever but I don’t have the time off anymore, so here we are. Naturally, when I came across… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for December 9
Happy Tuesday, kittens! Things got a little out of hand at Cryptosphere Global HQ last night, but as you can see order has been restored and everything is once again under control. Also, lunch will be provided by the management… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Dec 8
Merry Monday, kittens! Were you office partying over the weekend like the rest of us? The strangest people showed up at the party, but then that’s the holiday chaos for you. In this world of Heraclitian turmoil, there’s one thing… Read More ›