Come to think of it “The Old Master” would be a pretty good hacker name. Too bad I’ve doubled down on @F*ckS4boo. But it’s a new dawn, kittens. Time to face it bravely, armed with nothing more than your own… Read More ›
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Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Jan 15
Welcome to Thursday; it’s going to be this way all day. All. Damn. Day. It’s okay; we’ll get through it together. Just you, me, and this bottomless vat of caffeine and smart drugs. Hey, why did people who used smart… 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 ›
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 ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Halloween
Happy Halloween, kittens! Before you go out a-haunting this evening, it’s best to catch up on your cybernews, for safety’s sake. You never know who you might meet out there in the darkness: A would-be loverboy ready to sell you… Read More ›
Review: Hot Art: Chasing thieves and detectives through the secret world of stolen art
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 ›
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: 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 ›
Crypto Currently and Late Links: Current Prices for Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin and Argentumcoin
Almost to the weekend, kittens! And in the scenic province of British Columbia in Glorious Best Republic of Canuckistan, it’s a long weekend at that. So without further preface here are the prices for top crypto and one alt currencies,… Read More ›
Be Credit Card Careful: Tips from a Hacker
Today we are pleased to present a contribution from famed phone phreak Lucky, aka Jered Morgan, co-founder of SuchCalls, of which we have previously written. One of his specialties is privacy protection relating to credit card use. This is an… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Headlines for Crypto and Cyber News
From the looks of it, today is The Day of that old Aussie/Swedish/Amero-Russian mafia: new leak from WikiLeaks strikes back at the country of their founder, Snowden digs in, The Atlantic dials the mid-90’s, cyberpriest called to Swedish prison,… Read More ›
Linked In, Kicked Out
A family’s LinkedIn posts have been used against them in a case which stripped the (now formerly) Canadian family of their citizenship and gifted them with court costs of $63,000, over and above what they’ve paid to fight the case so… Read More ›
Scam o’ the Day: Pen your way to the Penitentiary
It must have seemed like a good idea at the time. The time would, presumably, have been sometime after Happy Hour, as you’d have to be drunk or crazy to think this would actually work. Still, we like the audacity of… Read More ›
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