To celebrate Independence Day, the day Ukraine broke free from Russia, the IT Army of Ukraine defaced several major ISPs in the Russian-occupied territory of Crimea. And Anonymous, as part of #OpRussia, released a new leak.
Leaks
Two New Victories for the IT Army of Ukraine and Its Hacktivist Allies
On Ukrainian Independence Day the IT Army of Ukraine announce a number of new victories, release a Youtube about their outage of Russian postal services, and promote a major leak of financial data from brand new hacktivist crew 2402.
Adrian Lamo, hacker, dead at 37
Adrian Lamo died earlier this week, cause of death to be determined.
Op/Ed: Irina Tsukerman on Spies, Lies, and Reality
We will be very surprised if this editorial, from lawyer Irina Tsukerman, does not cause kerfuffles a-plenty. Not every whistleblower is a whistleblower, and not every action which inconveniences those in power is worthy of worship. Pull up a chair,… Read More ›
Tyranny of Structurelessness?
The recent sexual assault and bullying allegations against Jacob Applebaum, formerly of Tor, have caused the digital security community to re-examine itself in the quest to prevent similar situations from arising in the future. In this guest post from McGill… Read More ›
Edward Snowden Beams Into Vancouver, Talks #PanamaPapers, #BigData, #Security
Edward Snowden skyped into Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre for a talk entitled “Big Data, Security, and Human Rights” on April 5, and here it is! We’re a little behind with our Snowden Events coverage, but I blame Simon Fraser University,… Read More ›
Paying the Piper: #PanamaPapers, or How Your Ghost in the Shell Returns
Semi-regular contributor AnonyOdinn has long since moved off Twitter and onto Diaspora, but he continues to publish his blog at Cyberguerilla. That is why he is here today: somebody apparently took exception to something Cyberguerilla said (which may or may… Read More ›
Review: Cybercrimes Is for Chavs OR: Cybercrimes with Ben Hammersley Ain’t Good
This review of the BBC’s “Cybercrimes” documentary series is by the talented, entertaining, and really, really angry Matthew D. Phelan. Upon re-reading this empassioned screed, our humble scribe re-watched a few episodes, thinking, “It can’t really be as bad as… Read More ›
The Ashley Madison Hack, as explained by weev
It’s the weev show! The world’s most famous troll explains the infamous Ashley Madison cheating site hack and leak. He’s done it in the form of a monologue on YouTube because as he explained on Twitter, Vice asked him for… Read More ›
The Registered Voter Leak: Big Deal or No Big Deal?
This controversial op/ed analysis of the recent, and substantial, leak of registered voter information, comes to us from Dominick Bruno. It is his first contribution to The Cryptosphere, so let’s make him welcome. On December 28th, the internet was… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Dec 8
Happy Tuesday, kittens! Caffeine in hand? Better yet, caffeine in belleh? Excellent! At Cryptosphere Global HQ we managed to screw up the buttons on the new deluxe espresso maker and pour six shots of espresso instead of an Americano this… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Dec 3
Happy No Mass Shootings So Far Today day, kittens! Assuming you don’t live in Syria, Libya, etc, etc, but if you did you’d probably have better things to do than surf the internet, eh? Just on the off chance, we’ll… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber & Crypto News for Nov 18
Dude, you’re gonna need a bigger spell. Seriously, who among us thinks this is exactly the way the UN Security Council is run? Have you seen those decisions: a wonky 20-sided die had to be involved at some point. As… Read More ›
Crypto-Affirmations: @TrutherbotGreen on war crimes
There IS, unfortunately, a fair bit of proof he’s right… Revealing war crimes is more dangerous than comitting war crimes. #Manning #Assange #Wikileaks — trutherbotgreen (@trutherbotgreen) November 10, 2015
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Nov 12
Welcome back, kittens! First a head injury, then hardware collapse; it’s never dull chez Cryptosphere, that’s for sure. Here’s our top selection of the (literally) 938 links we collected but could not post over the past two weeks. Enjoy. Also,… Read More ›
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