Looks like the government shutdown didn’t stop federal agents from shutting down the most popular “deep web” illegal drug market. In San Francisco, federal prosecutors have indicted Ross William Ulbricht, who is said to be the founder of Silk Road.
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Silk Road ends: Feds arrest ‘Dread Pirate Roberts,’ alleged founder of largest Bitcoin drug market
UK mobile providers, including O2 and its reseller GiffGaff, are blocking commercial VPN providers that help to secure sensitive communications from criminals, hackers and government spies.
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UK censorwall bans VPNs
Cable bundling, whereby we have to pay for channels we don’t want to get ones that we do, hits us in the pocket harder than we realize .
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Cable customers pay $5.54 a month for ESPN whether they want it or not
oclHashcat-plus is a “password-recovery” tool that chews through 8-million guesses a second. It optimizes its guesses by trying phrases from “the Bible, common literature, and in online discussions, ” and by formulating characters into websites’ required “password-construction protocols.” One security researcher cracked the passphrase “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn1, ” a phrase from an H.P.
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Password-cracking software runs at 8 million guesses per second
These coy hippos come from a 19th century illustration in The Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. They’re now part of a new book, published by New York’s American Museum of Natural History, that combines some of the best illustrations and artworks from the museum’s rare book collection .
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The best of the American Museum of Natural History’s rare book collection
It’s a sad day: the photoshopping remix site Worth1000 is shutting its doors , victim of being “technologically orphaned” after refactoring its codebase and then losing its programmer.
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Worth1000 shutting its doors
Kwikset makes an incredibly popular line of reprogrammable locks that can be easily re-keyed, meaning that landlords don’t have to physically change the locks when their tenants move out.
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Attacking the popular Kwikset lock: open in 15 seconds with a screwdriver and a paper clip
Brian Krebs is a security expert and investigative journalist who has published numerous ground-breaking stories about the online criminal underground, much to the consternation of the criminal underground.
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Cyber-crooks mail heroin to Brian Krebs
A woman who valet-parked her car at Rochester airport returned to find a notice informing her that the valet had searched her car, on orders from the TSA.
CNet’s Declan McCullagh reports on a rumor that Google is testing a system for encrypting its users’ files on Google Drive; they are reportedly considering the move as a means of making it harder for government spies to harvest user-data.
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Google experimenting with spy-resistant encrypted Google Drive