🦄 Arts & Culture, Tech

HOPE Conference Criticized For Allowing Far-Right Harassment

New York, NY – The 12th ‘Hackers On Planet Earth’ (HOPE) conference has become embroiled in controversy regarding the enforcement of the event’s Code of Conduct. In a joint statement released late Saturday, numerous groups present for the conference, including the Tor Project and Riseup.net,…

🦄 Tech

Hackers on Planet Earth Convention Unlocks Digital Secrets in NYC

New York City, NY – The Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) convention, organized by the hacker magazine 2600, is underway at the Hotel Pennsylvania. The convention has brought together hundreds of technologists and policy experts since 1994 and this year’s gathering, “The Circle of Hope:…

🦄 Tech

Transparency Activists Sue Chicago Over Refusal To Release Amazon HQ2 Bid

Chicago, IL  – Today, the transparency organization Lucy Parson Labs filed a lawsuit against Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the City of Chicago over their refusal to publicly release offers made to entice Amazon to build their second corporate headquarters (‘HQ2’) in the ‘Windy City’. Amazon…

🦄 Tech

Blockchain: Revolution or Business as Usual?

WHAT IS BLOCKCHAIN?
The term “blockchain” describes a type of internet-based decentralized ledger system which can be used to record transactions and store data in a manner potentially more secure than one might find in a centralized database system. Blockchains are managed using peer-to-peer (p2p)…

🦄 Tech

Senate Approves Extended Surveillance Powers For Trump

Washington, DC – On January 18, 2018, the US Senate voted to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA – the legal underpinning for global mass surveillance carried out by the National Security Agency (NSA). The Senate passed the bill last…

🦄 Arts & Culture, Borders & Migration, Community, Eco, Police, Prison, Protest & Direct Action, Social Control, Tech

Reports From Greece – 13 Part Series – 2017

During the summer of 2017, Unicorn Riot documented over a dozen stories from Athens, Greece. The stories were varied, most displaying networks of mutual aid, including housing, healthcare, food, detainee support and more, created by anarchists and anti-authoritarians in and around Exarcheia.

We produced three…

🦄 Tech

Anonymous Takes Down White Supremacist ‘League of the South’ Websites

Killen, AL – On Wednesday afternoon November 8, the twitter account @AnonyInfo, associated with the cyber-activist and hacker collective umbrella known as Anonymous, announced that it was targeting websites affiliated with the League of the South.
An apparent Distributed Denial of Service Attack had knocked…

🦄 Tech

Hacking Drones With Ultrasonic Pulses at DEFCON

Las Vegas, NV – Unicorn Riot journalists are currently reporting from DEFCON 25 in Las Vegas, where hackers of all flavors come together to present the most cutting edge in a long list of hacking skills. Over the four day convention, DEFCON will host speakers…

🦄 DAPL, Tech

Statement on Recent Censorship of #NoDAPL Coverage

Unicorn Riot has been steadfast in our coverage of the dynamic ongoing #NoDAPL encampments ever since the Sacred Stone Camp was first constructed on April 1.
On Tuesday, September 13th, Unicorn Riot journalists were arrested while covering a direct action, providing context around the struggle…

🦄 Tech

Oracle, Chat & Raw Code Found in Mossack Fonseca Offshore Web Portal

Unicorn Riot can report that the Panama-based offshore specialist law firm Mossack Fonseca has set up its customer portal with very incorrect server settings, inadvertently publishing much of its source code to the public with no barriers to casual browsers. We can state with certainty…

🦄 Tech

Yahoo Ads Infected With “Malvertisements”

The “Malvertising” hack used Yahoo server advertisements to infect computers. The Hack used an unpatched flash exploit to infect Yahoo users computers.
According to a Kapersky Labs, Malvertising is a
“malicious variety of online advertisements generally used to spread malware … While it’s easy to…

🦄 Borders & Migration, Community, Eco, Racism & Far-Right, Tech

Deprogram: Episode 10

Ep 10: #Gaza1YearOn #Enbridge #MitchEnriquez #RobertDoggart #TakeDownTheFlag #PuertoRico #GreeceCrisis #TheHackingTeam #NYSE #ChinaMeltdown #CanadianFires

“Deprogram”, a live show hosted by Zo and Niko that attempts to examine the roots of the struggles that preside throughout different communities.

ATTEMPTING VIDEO RECOVERY…