We made it to Friday, kittens! Well, kitten. A significant portion of our readership is probably in transit, en route to New York City, either to attend the Suits and Spooks conference or to protest outside of it. Still, who… Read More ›
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#Anonymous Wishes Matt DeHart a Happy Birthday
In prison. Former American soldier, rumoured WikiLeaks courier, and oldfag Anonymous member Matt DeHart is having a birthday today, his 31st. He won’t be going out to dinner with his parents, won’t be hitting the bars with his friends, and in… Read More ›
“I Attacked #Joomla.” An Interview with Dr.AFNDENA of AnonCoders
“I attacked Joomla.” Well, that’s one way to get our attention. Joomla is one of the biggest names in plug-and-play website building software. Instead of relying on plugins the way WordPress does, Joomla’s claim to fame is its multi-featured nature,… Read More ›
Happy Twitterversary, CIA!
Various US government agencies are on social media, with varying degrees of awesomeness or face-palmery. As US government agencies on social media go, relative newcomer the CIA is pretty much the best. Not in terms of giving out actual information:… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for June 10
Tinfoil chapeaux donned? Seatbelts fastened? Malwarebytes run? Stimulants ingested? Excellent, you’re fully prepared for hump day. Bite the pillow, kittens: Wednesday goes in dry. Eff You, Axl Rose, by Barrett Brown (TheBarrettBrownReviewOfArtsAndLetters) Kaspersky Lab a victim of Duqu intrusion (HelpNet)… Read More ›
#BreakTheInternet: #Anonymous Sabu is Back, Bitches!
Hector Xavier Monsegur, better known as the Anonymous, LulzSec, and AntiSec firebrand turned FBI informant Sabu, is back on Twitter. Many thanks to @danstuckey for getting this account back after 3 years of dormancy. https://t.co/Nwv66yMVTe #IMBAAAAAAACCKKK — Hector X. Monsegur… Read More ›
Matt DeHart’s Case on AnonUK Radio
This past Sunday your humble editor was a guest, along with Cryptospherians Raymond Johansen and Kitty Hundal, on Anon UK Radio. The cast of characters includes The Dread Pirate Bailey, StLouisGal, your host G3arhead, your other host T0p, and regular… 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 ›
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 ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for May 15
It’s Friday, kittens, and you know what that means! Your last, meatiest, cyber news roundup of the week, eight hours of highly remunerated Sudoku-playing, and then the weekend begins! The deadliest countries for journalists. #1 is a shocker! (BattleFace) The… 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 ›
Y2K!!!1!
Thank you, kittens! As of today your clickety-clicks have brought The Cryptosphere to 2000 Likes on Fedbook, 1724 Followers on Twitter (where we are, counterintuitively, @_cryptosphere), three or four retweets from WikiLeaks (swoon!), 260,000 views, mentions in Time, PC Week,… 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 & Crypto News for May 8
Close the book on this week, she’s a goner! Only eight more measly hours until sweet, sweet freedom during which we recover spiritual and physical strength to do it all over again. Or just top up our blood alcohol levels… Read More ›
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