TGIF say I, you, the Houmaine Family, and that poor sap at the State Department whose talking points got leaked all over the interwebs yesterday. We know you’re in a rush to get to the cabin, the cottage, or the… Read More ›
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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 Crypto and Cyber News for Today
As we get over hump day and stagger desperately towards the weekend which shimmers in the distance like the promise of redemption, the international news comes faster and faster, as aides-de-camp (des-camps?) shove press release after press release under the… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Crypto and Cyber News from the Web
All’s fair in love, war, and the Cryptosphere, kittens. Today we’ve got a Bitcoin and Middle East-rich roundup that includes the evergreen “How to Own a Police Car” handbook. What could POSSIBLY go wrong? Look, there IS TOO money in… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Crypto and Cyber News from the Web
What a busy, busy day we’ve had today; if the rest of the week keeps up like this, we’ll have to hire PMC‘s (Private Media Contractors) to get all our articles done! So, so much news today; so, so many… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Crypto and Cyber Headlines from Around the World
It’s been a long week, full of plane crashes, buck passing, spies, spooks, hackers, Anons, and Ceiling Cat alone knows what else. Here’s our last roundup for this week, something to enjoy while you lounge poolside, or peruse idly as… Read More ›
Neil McDonald: Grey Hat Black Listed
A computer hacking statute codified in 1961 (yes, before what we think of computers existed) is being wielded against Kiwi grey hat hacker Neil McDonald. His mistake was (in the short form) offering a company information about its weaknesses when… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Crypto and Cyber Headlines for July 24
This week just gets crazier and crazier, people! After everyone got back from HOPE X looks like they all decided to release those reports they’d been sitting on, so we have quite a miscellany for you today; from a car hacking manual to the latest on the most-dragged-out-death-since-Boromir case of MtGox.
Enjoy?
Report from HOPE X: Surveillance, Snowden, Stratfor and Surprises
HOPE X, which took place in New York this past weekend, is one of the premiere events of the hacker calendar. The Cryptosphere correspondent Douglas Lucas was there, presenting on a panel, schmoozing over sushi, sneaking into the press room,… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Global Cyber and Crypto Headlines
With the situation in the Ukraine, the situation in Gaza, and the situation on Twitter, it’s a busier day than normal in the Cryptosphere, so we decided to push out our daily link roundup a bit early. Here’s all the top news from around the globe.
Interwebbed: Top Cyber and Crypto Headlines
Here’s today’s roundup of all the top cyberwar, cryptocurrency, and hacker news. In case you’re curious, Anonymous is still going with OpSaveGaza, but that’s pretty much the default lately so we’ll give off with the links to their actions until… Read More ›
Shot of the day: James Bay (Cyber) Cafe
Cyber cafes: They actually still exist! Steffani Cameron snapped this shot of Victoria, BC favourite James Bay Coffee and Books two weeks ago. It’s odd that a cyber anything would be retro, but that’s a side effect of living on internet… Read More ›
The Cryptosphere founder Lorraine Murphy on AnonUK Radio
Here we (I) are (am) talking forest fires, Jeremy Hammond, the nature of “Anonymous” as an idea, the diversity of revolution, the tendency of government to retain and escalate control rather than to give it up, whether or not Snowden… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Crypto and Cyber headlines for July 21
It was a lively weekend, kittens, with the Hackers On Planet Earth conference at the forefront of the noisemaking, followed closely by continuing Anonymous attacks against Israel and a surprise pwnage in Kenya. And so to the headlines: Something you… Read More ›
Weekend Distractions: Cyberflick!
It’s that time (my day off time) so here is a terrific cyberflick for you to watch right here on the site for free. Today’s selection is Algorithm, a film with mixed reviews, but great geeky cred. Woz liked it,… Read More ›
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