Two days into the week and already I’m dreaming of being rescued by Laser Girl here. You can tell she’s badass by the rollerskates. Badasses love rollerskates. FACT. Until she skates into each of our lives, we have the soothing… Read More ›
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Spam Is A Numbers Game: Brian Krebs on Unsolicited Email
Spam: once a gross meat-like substance sold in tins that could probably survive a nuclear apocalypse. Now, it’s the stuff that clogs your inbox: penis pills and health insurance and lottery winnings and nursing degrees and whatever else spammers think… Read More ›
#OpFerguson Updates: Trolls, Honeypots, Leaks, and Crowdsourcing Intel
UPDATE: aaaand just as we hit Publish, Anonymous has taken the Ferguson City website and the St Louis County website offline. Anonymous has been busy over the last day or so, working on OpFerguson, the operation designed to bring justice… Read More ›
CyberVor: Understanding the billion password hack
Yesterday a small Milwaukee security company of which you have probably never heard broke the news that a group of nameless twentysomething Russian hackers had acquired a collection of 1.2 billion username/password combinations, the largest such collection in history. The internet,… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Crypto and Cyber Headlines from Around the World
It’s a holiday up here in Best Province of Glorious Republic of Canuckistan, so today we’re stocking up on our Vitamin D at the beach. Not to worry: we’d never leave you without reading material. Here is today’s top stories… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Crypto and Cyber Headlines for Friday, August 1
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 ›
What to Do When Someone Steals Your Stuff
This article is just what it says on the tin. How to bring the pain when you find some mealy-mouthed thief has attempted to use your own material on his site, with OR without attribution. Fair use is fair use,… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Top Cyber and Crypto Headlines
Here’s today’s roundup of all the top cyberwar, cryptocurrency, and hacker news. In case you’re curious, Anonymous is still going with OpSaveGaza, but that’s pretty much the default lately so we’ll give off with the links to their actions until… Read More ›
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