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 ›
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“Your Data Will Never Be Compromised!” ORLY???
Norton Anti-Virus must be WAY more effective in Japan for some reason. The transcript: Subs by evasivemaneuver, (Twitter: @wine_pimp) People have always been praying for safety People have always struggled to safeguard their privacy Today the Gods have answered thy… 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 ›
RIP Grace Lee Whitney, aka Yeoman Janice Rand on Star Trek
Another icon of science fiction has left this space-time continuum, on a journey to the unknown. Grace Lee Whitney, however, did not think of it this way; she had long since become a born again Christian. She died May 1… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber & Crypto News for May 4
Welcome to Malware Monday, kittens! Don’t worry, we’re going to run out of these catchy, alliterative, and totally arbitrary keywords soon, but in the meantime, let’s get a fresh cup of java and prepare for the work week. It promises… Read More ›
One Day Only: The Hacker Wars is 99 Cents to Rent, $9.99 to Buy on Amazon
Today, May Day, 2015, The Hacker Wars, the definitive documentary account of hacktivism’s golden age, is on sale at Amazon.com. You can rent it for 99 cents or purchase it for $9.99, $12.99 for HD. If you haven’t seen this… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber & Crypto News for May 1
Hacky Friday, kittens! We’ve had a couple of days off to wrestle with tawdry IRL concerns, and we could not be happier to be back where we belong, in our mother’s basement, working on our monitor tans. We have far… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber & Crypto News for April 28
Is Baltimore still there? Keep refreshing your Google Earth to make sure, kittens; it’s at the stage where anything could happen, and probably will be caught on camera when it does. Yes, dude, you might just be a racist… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber & Crypto News for April 27
Black hat, grey hat, white hat, or Guy Fawkes mask, it’s time to gird your cranium and throw yourself headlong into the work week. We at The Cryptosphere Global HQ have been very busy on a couple of special projects… Read More ›
A (Secure) Chat with WikiLeaks
Today’s article comes to us from Interwebs Security correspondent Tyler L. Jones. It is his first appearance in the Cryptosphere. WikiLeaks is at it again. This time, in an effort to provide a method of secure communication between themselves and whistleblowers,… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber & Crypto News for April 22
It’s a busy Hump Day here at The Cryptosphere global HQ: we have screaming hot Google news, Arab Spring fallout, new ways to catch the cops red-handed, and a staggeringly greedy, retroactive power grab by Big Tractor, not to mention the… Read More ›
The Hacker Wars: #Anonymous United, Divided, Arrested
The Hacker Wars, a documentary by Vivien Lesnik Weisman, features Barrett Brown, Joe Fionda/Subverzo, Jeremy Hammond, and essentially everyone who was anyone in the Anonymous hacktivism scene in 2012-2013. It had a limited run in theatres earlier this year and has… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for April 21
We have achieved Peak Nerd, kittens. Italian Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti took a selfie aboard the International Space Station in full Star Trek regalia, then tweeted it. There may be coffee in that there Nebula, as she claims, but there’s pure… Read More ›
Lorraine @raincoaster Murphy on AnonUK Radio: #Anonymous Haters Gonna Hate
There was a little kerfuffle in the interwebs recently, kittens, and your humble editor was at the centre of it, thanks to an interview last month with Passcode journalist (and Cryptosphere pal) Fruzsina Eordogh for an article called The Great… Read More ›
Interwebbed: #Cyber & #Crypto #News for April 17
TGIF, kittens, by which we mean Thank the Gibson it’s Firefox, of course. Why, what did you think we meant? A dramatic week comes to a close, heralding, no doubt, a dramatic weekend. Here’s all the 411 you need* to… Read More ›
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