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, 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 ›
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 ›
Welcome to our late afternoon double-stacked linkdump. The Cryptosphere has finally moved into the new offices, shared with an unnamed community radio station, and they are swank indeed. I could podcast to my heart’s content with this setup, if it weren’t heavy… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
Welcome to Wales, y’all. They take security on their golf courses very seriously, as you can see. While conclusion-jumpers may have assumed this is some kind of Ferguson-style overkill in response to the Independence Movement, it is instead simply basic… Read More ›
We’ve got a massive roundup for you today, but don’t worry: there will not, repeat NOT, be a quiz later. Which is a good thing because I don’t have time to write one! To the news!!! Amateur detective tracks down… Read More ›
We might as well make Ferguson its own column here, as half the daily links seem to be Fergified. Mind you, if they keep arresting the reporters, there will soon be less Ferguson news. Police Officer to Media in Ferguson:… Read More ›
Terrorists spotted protesting on the forrest moon of Endor. Emperor Palatine has deployed the National Guard in response…err Storm Troopers, we meant storm troopers… Does this remind anyone else of Pogo? I’m detecting some new resonances in the War… Read More ›
We made it to Friday, kittens! The way this week has been going I’d have lost a bet on that, for sure. But the week is ended, the weekend is hours away, and now we know that Darren Wilson killed… Read More ›
So, this is how the Defcon Hacking Conference is going for someone today: In short, s/he was using a Wifi Pineapple to try to do some of the mentioned-in-that-link nefarious stuff to the wifi at the conference. Instead of… Read More ›
Black Hat USA is the no-holds-or-hacks-barred annual conference that brings together some of the biggest names in infosec with some of the biggest names in hacking. But not all, because some are still hung over from HOPE. It’s… Read More ›
“The Great Spycatcher of Fleet Street.” Damn, doesn’t that have a ring to it? He had another, equally awesome nickname: “The Lone Wolf of Fleet Street.” You never heard of this man, and you already think he’s the shizznit, don’t… Read More ›
TGIF say I, you, the Houmaine Family, and that poor sap at the State Department whose talking points got leaked all over the interwebs yesterday. We know you’re in a rush to get to the cabin, the cottage, or the… Read More ›
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