Mondo 2000 Magazine - Issue number 10 (1993), pages 31-32 #Mondo2000 #Cyberpunk

This video of a scammer accidentally calling the emergency line for an elevator.

Get wired, chooms and chummers. ⚡ 'Netrunner' by Schafft, created on the ZX Spectrum for ZXGfxtober 2023.

Another bug hunter leaks Microsoft exploits in defiance of company’s handling of vulnerability disclosures

Everyone with power and money is conspiring to make this bubble bigger and bigger and seems to be convinced it won’t pop.

I have the utmost regard for academics and especially people who study history and social anthropology but reading papers I find circular reference loops where someone will say “x could be true” and then a dozen other papers will say “x is true based on a paper by <someone>” and then it is a fact.

Time to start a new blog about the history of cyberwar I think, a short one. Five minutes later I’m writing “in 1999 the so called Dagestan Incursion occurred when Islamist fighters from Chechnya crossed the border between…”

Do not, my friends, become addicted to water.

Unexpectedly received more #FOIA documents from the #FBI relating to “Flyhook”, FBI operation to lure two Russian #hackers to the U.S. so they could be arrested back in 2000. If you separate the techniques of modern #ransomware from the malware itself, it was around a lot earlier than people think.

How had I never heard of this guy before? Jerry Schneider was in his twenties in Los Angeles when he worked out a way to get the local phone company to box up supplies for him using remote computer access, he then picked up the stuff and resold it. This was in 1971! www.nytimes.com/1973/12/02/a...

My other "how had I not heard of this before?" moment today was Сибирская сетевая бригада, or the Siberian Network Brigade, who were apparently a group of Russian university students who attacked Chechen websites during the second Chechen War in the late 90s / early 2000s. New cyberwar blog planned.

Biblically accurate surveillance state

My other "how had I not heard of this before?" moment today was Сибирская сетевая бригада, or the Siberian Network Brigade, who were apparently a group of Russian university students who attacked Chechen websites during the second Chechen War in the late 90s / early 2000s. New cyberwar blog planned.

How had I never heard of this guy before? Jerry Schneider was in his twenties in Los Angeles when he worked out a way to get the local phone company to box up supplies for him using remote computer access, he then picked up the stuff and resold it. This was in 1971! www.nytimes.com/1973/12/02/a...

If you go on most sites like YouTube or Instagram without logging in now the stuff you are served with by default is indistinguishable from the front covers of the Weekly World News or the National Enquirer or some 2010s neo-nazi site. It really is insane.

Unexpectedly received more #FOIA documents from the #FBI relating to “Flyhook”, FBI operation to lure two Russian #hackers to the U.S. so they could be arrested back in 2000. If you separate the techniques of modern #ransomware from the malware itself, it was around a lot earlier than people think.

Revealed: The dimensional vortex into which all the bytes from emptied Windows recycle bins flow. 📖: Teach Yourself Windows 95 Visually, IDG Books, 1995/6

The purpose of labeling hackers extremists is not really clear. It would imply that their activities are prohibited in Russia, which makes no difference when it comes to cyber attacks The designation would likely be used in foreign policy rhetoric & for international warrants

Russia's Supreme Court will consider designating Belarusian Cyber Partisans & Silent Crow extremist organizations—the 1st time extremism legislation might be applied to cyber actors This is likely because of the attack on Aeroflot claimed by both groups www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/...

Always how it goes right, some new technology with serious ethical, economic or environmental problems comes along and then someone pops up and says don’t worry I have the moral fortitude to use this technology for good, I’m not like those other bad people. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

Find someone who loves you as much as people who can’t be bothered double-checking a skeet before hitting post or just dealing with a typo love banging on and on about an edit button. The ability to edit tweets was one of the surest signs twitter was going down the toilet.

New from 404 Media: we've seen internal documents that show Microsoft is explicitly planning to "make people addicted" to its new AI assistant 'Scout' which the company just announced. It is a clear goal according to the documents, with addiction being the first phase www.404media.co/microsoft-wa...

Anyone else suddenly receiving a bunch of “Due to a lapse of time and potential change in circumstance, we would like engage to determine if you are still interested in this request…” emails from the FBI FOIA team or is it just me?

The goal of every social media site online now is to not allow any space for adults to simply be adults. Everyone must be treated like a child. This is Silicon Valley puritanism dressed up as child safety.

We're looking for a cover for the next issue of Phrack! Retro sci-fi, terminals, dystopian systems, chrome futures, hacker manuals from an alternate timeline. Make something timeless and strange. Send your work or idea to [email protected] Deadline June 30th

Submissions are still open! If you've been sitting on a bug, technique, war story, weird research rabbit hole, or beautifully cursed idea: now is the time. Write something worth archiving. Phrack CFP closes June 30. More details on how to submit at phrack.org/news

Phrack wants your art! The theme for this issue is retro sci-fi / old-school cybernetic futures. But we accept all kinds of contributions :) ANSI, illustration, collage, renders, weird experiments. Send it to: [email protected] Deadline June 30th

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Agonizing over changing the design layout of my Wordpress blog at a time when the web is dying feels grimly amusing.

How do you check what labels have been added to your Bluesky account? Seems like a very opaque process from end to end.

Seeing ads for a lego rental service online, what the fuck are we doing at this point? People are having to rent their hobbies from some online business ghouls.

Wow this is bringing back memories of the Syrian Electronic Army but they tended to make more impact than a goofy graphic.

Funny to see things come full circle for Microsoft and Bill Gates, both were treated with a certain amount of suspicion and derision in the 90s, turned people around and are now right back in that same space. Microsoft is drowning in slop trouble and Gates is exposed as a creep of the highest order.

Average reddit cryptobro in 2026

Want to copy Famicom Disk System games in 1987? The appropriately named HACKER magazine will show you how with DISK HACKER. Just how rife computer software piracy was in Japan is a fascinating rabbit hole to fall down. And it extended to the FDS too with the aid of tools like this.

Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs

“A Russian influence campaign hijacked hundreds of Bluesky accounts -- many belonging to influential Americans -- to spread propaganda, researchers said, in a striking disinformation tactic that weaponized authentic identities rather than relying on fake accounts.“

Dropping 0day isn’t the worst thing a researcher can do. It’s not ideal, but at least orgs can take steps to mitigate. Non disclosure is far worse. What drives researchers toward non disclosure? Threats from vendors. Researchers aren’t criminals unless their crime is curiosity.

Supposedly we are about to be deluged in generative AI discovered zerodays so Microsoft better put on a brave face and get used to dealing with this crap. Vague legal threats aren’t going to cut it.

NEW: Hackers are trying to steal Signal users' online backups in a new wave of attacks. The hackers are pretending to be Signal Support and asking targets to share their backup's Recovery Key. This would be the first step in an attack that also requires attackers to take over the victims' accounts.

I’ve gotten four or five emails telling me there are no responsive records for two FBI #FOIA requests (Telecomix and the klez worm) I made over the last few days, makes me wonder if the eFOIA portal is on the fritz again.

It's impressive, every year Jimbo puts on the sad puppy eyes and tells people that if they don't donate, a kitten will die with sadness in its little heart, and every year we just collectively ignore that their slush fund could keep them running for over century and we could support other stuff, too

People have this idealized view of Wikipedia and every now and then get a kick in the ass to remind them that the org behind it can really be shady as hell.

Don’t make me have to send a threat actor to your location fool. All joking aside who are they having do this? Assuming SRG is Russian as linked to Conti, they recruiting random Americans to drive to law firms with malware on USB sticks? Close operations and VaaS is the future.

NEW: In the first piece in a series about the biggest cybersecurity mysteries ever, I looked at what we know about the Shadow Brokers, the group that leaked several NSA hacking tools a decade ago. Even after all this time, their identity remains unknown, despite causing havoc all over the internet.

People kind of mock the hacker hatred of Microsoft in the nineties but at least people would admit that Windows is a bloated piece of crap back then and knew that corporations are not your friend.

Title says “search results” but if you read on it is AI chatbots recommending people download malware, they have been trained on data that includes SEO poisoning that directs people to sites with malicious downloads. A search engine could remove those sites, can AI? www.microsoft.com/en-us/securi...

Garfield reads the discourse of the day.

After almost 90 days and more than 2,000 hours, Iran is coming back online www.wired.com/story/intern...

What a fucking timeline we find ourselves in. Show this headline to a hacker in 1997 and watch their goddamn head explode.