Happy Thursday, kittens! Time to plug in and light up your life with all the top news from around the web. We’re working on weaning ourselves off of paywall sites, but FP is hard to give up. Feel my… Read More ›
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Pitch Different: a Rejection from Bond, James Bond
Oh dear god, this is glorious. T’is fake, but t’is glorious. I’d still give Steve Jobs a yes and Sean Connery a no, but this is glorious. via EsquireUK on Facebook. h/t Percy Perkins
Team System Dz goes on hacking spree
UPDATED TO ADD: Get the latest on Team System DZ here. And gee thanks, YouKnowWhoYouAreMajorUKNewspaper, for reading our articles and not linking to them. Well, somebody’s on a roll. Much to the chagrin of over 200 victims around the world, including… Read More ›
Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
Here are a few facts about Ada Lovelace, whose day is today. No, it is not a stat/bank holiday, unfortunately, although if we lived in a just world sysadmins would have the day off at the very least. Ada Lovelace… Read More ›
Review: Hot Art: Chasing thieves and detectives through the secret world of stolen art
What do you mean? It is TOO hacking-related. Wait till you learn how great art is used to launder drug money, how it’s exchanged for illegal weapons, how it’s sanitized as it travels up the chain from B&E artiste to… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Post-Canadian Thanksgiving Cyber and Crypto News
Did you enjoy your long weekend and turkey poutine, kittens? What do you mean you didn’t have either? WHAT KIND OF GODFORSAKEN BACKWATER DO YOU INHABIT, where they don’t celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving with turkey poutine and long weekends and fights… Read More ›
Exclusive Matt DeHart coverage: Paul DeHart and Tor Ekeland Interviewed
Life is not easy for 30-year-old Matt DeHart. Just a few years ago he was doing well; as a trained Intelligence Analyst in the US Air National Guard he looked forward to a stable and glamorous career at the center of… Read More ›
Interwebbed: TGIF Cyber and Crypto Links for 10/10
Good afternoon, kittens! We had a lovely morning doing CPR on our apparently-deceased laptop and then heartlessly arranging for a replacement, all without spending a dime. Not as easy as it looks, particularly before the first coffee of the day…. Read More ›
Numbers: Some Thoughts on the Umbrella Revolution
The color of truth is gray.” – Andre Gide I remember Tiananmen. The end Was blood, and silence. I remember Tahrir Square, the broken bones that do not mend, And in Yangon, the monks who died at prayer. I saw… Read More ›
Tweet o’ the Day: Snowden, Stone, and Recursion
Wait for it, people. Just wait. Dear Oliver Stone, You are not allowed to complain when the Snowden script is leaked. — MysteryTVWritersAsst (@MysteryTVWrtrAs) October 9, 2014
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for October 9
Good morning, kittens! And how is your day progressing so far? Teeth brushed, hair (if any) combed, caffeine ingested? Excellent. You’re all ready for today’s newer, shorter, list of links. Because life is too small to link to paywalls, kittens…. Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for October 08
And the headlines just keep on coming, kittens! While we were momentarily sidetracked with the buzz around the first-on-then-off tv series based on that Cusack classic Say Anything, the world turned, so did many special agents, and so here we… Read More ›
AnonSec Hackers Tangodown Turkish e-Commerce Sites
AnonSec, the mysterious Kurdish Peshmerga-supporting hacker crew which has become the bane of Indonesian government webmasters (among others), and who claim to have hacked an NSA drone, has a new target. Tiny Turkish ecommerce sites. In a list posted to… Read More ›
Interwebbed Part 2: Cyber and Crypto News, continued
We’ve neglected you for too long, and the news as well, so today ONLY we are offering a two-for-one special on our Interwebbeds. Herein lies part deux. Download o’ the day: Business Password Analysis (Trustwave) Cue the DRONE NAVY! (c4isrnet)… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for October 7
And we’re back! Still slightly feverish, and three pounds lighter, but nothing to worry about, kittens. Let’s not think of it as a lost day of work; let’s think of it as that time I finally broke through the Level… Read More ›
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