Category Archives: lol

Twitter Hacking for Profit and the LoLs

Posted on by

The New York Times last week ran an interview with several young men who claimed to have had direct contact with those involved in last week’s epic hack against Twitter. These individuals said they were only customers of the person who had access to Twitter’s internal employee tools, and were not responsible for the actual intrusion or bitcoin scams that took place that day. But new information suggests that at least two of them operated a service that resold access to Twitter employees for the purposes of modifying or seizing control of prized Twitter profiles. Continue reading Twitter Hacking for Profit and the LoLs→

Liar, liar, pants on fire! Barclays phish claims cards explode

Posted on by

We feel compelled to relay the dire warning from this Barclays snail-mail letter, which we acquired through social media, therefore it must be true.
Categories:

Cybercrime
Social engineering

Tags: barclayscredit cardfailfakeLOLphishquality cont… Continue reading Liar, liar, pants on fire! Barclays phish claims cards explode→

Why The FBI Investigated ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Players in the 1990s

Posted on by

An FBI memo written during the Unabomber investigation describes roleplayers as ‘armed and dangerous,’ ‘extremely intelligent individuals’ and ‘overweight and not neat in appearance.’ Continue reading Why The FBI Investigated ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Players in the 1990s→