Welcome back from your Memorial Day weekend, kittens! I feel confident over-generalizing like that since most of my readers are US-based and the ones that aren’t probably could use an extra day without more depressing cyberwar stories anyway. But we’re… Read More ›
Hacktivism
Enforced Transparency 4 – The Whistleblowers Bravery
This is another in the ongoing series on Enforced Transparency by Raymond Johansen and Kitty Hundal, featured here on the Cryptosphere as well as their own site, HacktivistCulture, with related articles on the Fifth Column News, and HackRead. This article… Read More ›
#Pwnd: Lauri Love, Accused Hacker, Forces Government to Return Seized Computers
Lauri Love, the Brit/Scot/Finn accused of hacking into multiple US government computers including those of NASA, the EPA, the US Army, the New York Federal Reserve Bank, and the US Missile Defence System, has successfully confronted the UK government, and… Read More ›
The Cryptosphere goes to camp: Social Media Camp this Friday!
It’s that time of year, kittens: the time when we pack up the Cray, break out the cutoffs, and head to glorious Victoria, BC, to present a talk at Social Media Camp, the premiere conference of its kind in Canada,… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for May 20
Claw your way through this, the meatiest link roundup on the intertubes, as we fetch ourselves another saucer of milk. We need to build up our strength for the rest of the week… The Barrett Brown Review of Arts and… Read More ›
Rebuilding Communities and Identities with USB sticks and Love by AnonyOdinn
This is another thoughtful long read from our old pal Anony Odinn; it originally appeared at Cyberguerrilla. Get yourself a full cup of some stimulating beverage and get ready for a mind-expanding experience. “Where there is preparation there is no fear.”… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber & Crypto News for May 19
Zoinks, looks like Scooby Doo was real life after all. When I was little, I thought that when you became a teenager you were given a van and either an English Sheepdog or a Great Dane, and you and your… Read More ›
Meet the Lorax: Tonight on AnonOps Radio
Tonight on AnonOps Radio, it’ll be Back to the Future time, as the hosts dedicate the entire show to fallen (arrested) colleague and former host, Adam Bennett, aka Lorax. Once the most popular radio host in Anonymous, with his own… Read More ›
#Anonymous Sweden hacks the #NSA, mentions of hack wiped from #Facebook, #LinkedIn
DⒶʀKᙡiNɢ ಠ_ರೃ , a Swede associated with Anonymous, has claimed a new, and rather relentless, hack of the US National Security Agency’s email server. Nothing so mundane as username/password combinations, the Pastebin of the hack lists the methodology and blow-by-blow… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for May 14
It’s Thursday, kittens, all day, and there’s nothing we can do about it except shotgun another doppio and catch up on the news, in which we read that the app we just used to pay for our coffee has been… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for May 12
Happy Tuesday, kittens! We have a juicy link roundup for you today, thankfully bereft of police shootings, sparser of geopolitics, and richer in hacky hackers hacking Gibsons and DARPAbots and the like. Lucky for you we let our subscription to… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for May 11
What indeed, kittens, what indeed? I suppose you could try reading the latest cyberwar and hacktivism news. In case your existential crisis was not already deep enough. You can’t defend public libraries and oppose file sharing (Torrentfreak) You can participate… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber & Crypto News for May 7
It’s Threat Report Thursday (no, it’s not, but you know…keywords) so grab a cup of the stimulating beverage of your choice, batten down your hatches, hang on to your hat, pull yourself up by your bootstraps, and let’s see you get… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber & Crypto News for May 6
Shalom, kittens, and a Hacky Hump Day to you all. We’re here with your RDA of cyber and crypto news links, an important part of your nutritious breakfast. Oh, who are we kidding? You’re shotgunning a latte and scarfing a… Read More ›
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 ›