Yesterday the famous Paypal 14 hacktivists were sentenced: all their felony charges were dropped, leaving them with misdemeanors and a bill for restitution. The Cryptosphere correspondent Douglas Lucas was the only journalist actually present at the sentencing. Since the conditions… Read More ›
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Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for October 30
Welcome to All Hallows Eve Eve. Have you got your costume ready? Which is it to be: InfoSec Taylor Swift or Slutty Jian Ghomeshi? Perhaps an ISIS Social Media Consultant, with burnoose in a QR code pattern. If you’re all… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Crypto and Cyber #News for October 27
Happy Monday, kittens! Was your weekend full of good food, good company, and hundreds of thousands of Facebook posts about Jian Ghomeshi? No, just me? Here are a handy bunch of links with which you can stuff your Facebook feed, blotting… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for October 21
Happy Tuesday, kittens, and welcome to your favoritest link roundup of the day! We’ve been a little heavy on the war and a little light on the cyber lately, but we’re going to be very firm with ourselves from now… Read More ›
An interview with #GazaRebirth: a New Paradigm for Recovery Activism
After the most recent Hamas/IDF conflict, the people of the Gaza Strip had a heavy job to rebuild, never sure if THIS was the ceasefire that would hold as so many did not. #GazaRebirth, a new initiative by activists both inside… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
Tweets o’ the Day: the #UmbrellaRevolution, Car FUD, False Flags at the MMM, Clippy’s a Jerk, and Monsters Under the Bed
It’s been an exceptional evening of tweets from around the world; too busy for us to have the time to inflate each of these into a standalone article, but not too busy for us to just plop them here for… Read More ›
OpSafeWinter Continues: Tweetstorm Report
On Sunday, September 28 between 3-8pm EST, Anonymous’ OpSafeWinter held a Tweetstorm, a Twitter-based event designed to raise awareness among the general public. As we previously reported, OpSafeWinter is designed to support the homeless by creating an honest census of… Read More ›
#Anonymous re-launches #OpSafeWinter for the Homeless
OpSafeWinter, one of Anonymous’ most effective non-hacking Ops, is back (not that it actually went away) and we’ve got an interview with the international team behind it. As is traditional, the interviewees declined to identify themselves, other than as organizers… Read More ›
Interwebbed: TGIF Cyber and Crypto #News for August 12
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›