Another week gone, and a glorious, sybaritic weekend laid out in front of us like a wanton professionally-companionable person. Naturally, you wouldn’t want to head into such a liason without a full complement of news bytes from around the Cryptosphere,… Read More ›
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Quiz: What Kind of CryptoCurrency Coverage Do You Like?
Well, kittens, you may have noticed some changes Chez Cryptosphere; for the last two weeks we’ve suspended our Crypto Currently coverage, a daily roundup of Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, and Altcoin prices. We have, for this, received not one single complaint…. Read More ›
Unknownsec Doxes Stormfront Capo, Attacks Site in #OpWBKKK
True to its promise of last week, the hacker crew known as Unknownsec has gone after allies of the KKK, taking the White Supremacist site Stormfront offline with a massive botnet attack Friday night and doxing the heck out of its leader,… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto Headlines for Monday, September 8
Happy Monday! Time to crawl back into the web and start climbing for the top as if your retirement savings depended on it, which — ha ha ha! — psych! Nobody currently living will ever be able to retire! But you knew… Read More ›
Guest Post: ICANN Advisory on ClipboardSec by Griffin Boyce
Today’s post comes to us from hacker/privacy activist Griffin Boyce, and is a repost of a column on his own blog, which was inspired by spotting an egregious ClipboardSec violation, ironically in the BBC Horizon documentary on the Deep Web. I… Read More ›
Unknownsec announces #OpWBKKK against the Westboro Baptist Church and the Ku Klux Klan
UnknownSec, this week’s hot new crew on the block, isn’t wasting any time. Two days ago they took down Facebook more or less by accident, testing out a botnet they claim they didn’t think would be powerful enough to effect… Read More ›
Film Friday: Inside the Dark Web
Horizons: Inside the Dark Web is an hour-long interview-based BBC documentary explaining the composition and nature of the scarily-titled Dark Web, previously known as the Deep Web until fearmongers got ahold of it. It features many of the luminaries of… Read More ›
Interwebbed: TGIF Cyber and Crypto Headlines for Friday, August 5
Welcome to Friday, kittens! We made it! Neither hacking attempts, nor lame-o hate mail, nor the NSA, GCHQ, or Royal Canuckian Mounted Police could stop us this first week of September. Having luxuriated in probably the first Labour Day I’ve… Read More ›
Facebook TANGODOWN: Exclusive Interview with @Unvealings of #Unknownsec
https://twitter.com/Cy63rp0isoN/status/507265728547147776 Well, as everyone in the known universe knows by now, Facebook was down yesterday for a period of time between 15 and 30 minutes, during which the world collectively lost its shit and dug out its dormant Twitter accounts… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Crypto and Cyber Headlines for August 4
Apologies for Wednesday’s missing link roundup; it has been run to Earth and put in the stockade until it learns the benefits of promptness. The elision was occasioned by a spectacularly amateurish hacking attempt on our site and associated Gmail,… Read More ›
Call to Action: Help Us Track #Police Shootings
There is no publicly-accessible database of shootings by US police officers. Let those words sink in. While you’re at it, consider that the words “Law Enforcement Officer” and “Peace Officer” are meant to refer to the same thing. This thing…. Read More ›
The Drone Wars Have Begun: Meet Rambro
We’ve found the first super-warrior of the long-feared Drone Wars. He has taken his first victim. He is RAMBRO! After a youth spent calmly munching grass in the pastoral mountainside of New Zealand, as he turned towards adulthood something in… Read More ›
#Anonymous calls #OpGCHQ tonight in UK
Attention, UK Spooks, Feds, and other governmental-type security professionals! Anonymous would like to let you know: it’s ON! The UK is one of the most survielled countries in the world in significant part because of GCHQ, an organization so… Read More ›
IMF Chief in Fraud Investigation Scandal
Oh joy, it’s Schadenfreude Day! IMF head Christine Lagarde is being investigated in connection with possible fraud for her role, as Finance Minister, in a convoluted series of events stemming from a €400 lawsuit which was decided in favour of… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Crypto and Cyber Headlines for Thursday, August 28
Thursday’s child has, apparently, far to go. But we have only about 36 little hours to go until the weekend, so grab these attractively-arrayed stair wires and hang in there. We’ve got your news headlines to make the time pass… Read More ›