Another day, another article about the Death of Twitter. Not that they’re wrong, it’s just irritating that a lot of the organizations wailing the loudest have been active participants in the slow murder of what was once everyone’s favourite social… Read More ›
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#Anonymous Sub-#Reddit in Entertaining Death Throes: We Interviewed the Assassin
Ah, Reddit, the text-based wonderland where news is born and shame goes to die. Ah, Anonymous, the once-anarcic prankster of the internet, now turned grim avenger and righteous “moralfag.” When the two of them got together, we knew it… Read More ›
#Anonymous Stands Up for Higinio Ochoa aka w0rmer of #Cabin Cr3w
“One of my first posts on Twitter was that I am not here for drama, and I plan to stick to that the best that I can.” That was before the drama came for him. So said Higinio Ochoa, formerly… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Oct 29
Happy Thursday, kittens! Got your Edward Snowdenhands costume all ready? Or going as a Cyberpunk Senior? Me, I’m digging out my old mouse ears, a 5XL tee, and a lavalier mic, taping a couple of honey buns to my hands… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Oct 28
Well, that’s the Halloween costume sorted. I was going as Edgar Allan Ho, but Edward Snowdenhands takes it. Scissors always beat paper. Now that we’ve got that decided, we can move on to the news roundup for this morning. If… Read More ›
Attacked! How to Thwart “Muslim Hacktivist” Crew The Intrud3rs
They’re baaaaaaaaaaaaaack! Last week, we featured an interview with Sys GhosT of self-described Muslim hacktivist crew The Intrud3rs, discussing their September defaces of a number of NASA web pages and French University sites. Sys GhosT claimed that the hacks were… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Oct 27
It’s always a Happy Tuesday, kittens, when we’ve got a new Banksy to share! As for the rest of the day’s breaking news, well, as always some of it is more leaning towards a net and overall state of positivity,… Read More ›
Searching The Deep Web and The Unmapped Internet
Today’s post comes to us in slightly altered form from Joe Howard of the WeeklyPique, which specializes in deep-dive looks at a particular subject, once a week. Consider this your quick intro to the Deep Web. And you don’t even need… Read More ›
Interwebbed @Bjork Themed Cyber and Crypto News for Oct 26
I’m 90% sure that GIF conversation was transcribed verbatim. We’re very fond of Bjork chez Cryptosphere, because reasons, and so our Monday cyberwar and hacktivism news links for today are dedicated to her unique brand of “crazy-like-an-arctic-fox.” Indeed, are we… Read More ›
The Two Funniest, Most Important Videos from the Canadian Election
As all the world has heard by now, hunky, eloquent dynastic Liberal candidate Justin Trudeau is the new Prime Minister Elect of the People’s Republic of Canuckistan, his (arguably right-)centrist Liberal party having taken the most seats on Monday, October… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Oct 23
We made it to Friday again, kittens! Another work week behind us, another 48 hours of R&R to be anticipated, one mere shift away. Can you make it till then? You can, with the help of these news links. Wouldn’t… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Oct 22
Did you miss us, kittens? We went away for a whole week and then took some hardware-failure-induced time off from doing our news roundup, but we’re back and, as you can see, quite excited about it. To your stations, everyone…. Read More ›
Muslim Hacking Crew The Intrud3rs Attacks, Defaces NASA sites, French Universities
Well, this is a new one: a Muslim hacker crew attacking the US because they believe the US created ISIS, and ISIS makes Muslims look bad. And then moving on to French universities in protest of what they say are… Read More ›
Hail Amazon, Slayer of Zombies!
On a scale of one to ten, how trusted are Amazon reviews? Well, you should add a star to that number, because the etail giant has taken up arms against professional spam reviewers and launched a lawsuit against over 1000… Read More ›
Trolling Level: Nobel Prize
Presented without further comment: Well, just one little comment: the actual Nobel Prize Twitter account has 165,000 Twitter followers. This upstart has only 17 at the time of posting this article. The real winners were the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet…. Read More ›