Will Bitcoin Always Be #1?
The king of cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin has the largest market capitalization, the highest price, and the most famous name of the 2000+ coins that have followed in its wake.
Will Bitcoin Always Be #1?
The king of cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin has the largest market capitalization, the highest price, and the most famous name of the 2000+ coins that have followed in its wake.
U.S. Senators Introduce Ultimate Backdoor Bill Banning the Use of Strong Consumer-Grade Encryption
Last week, Republican U.S. Senators introduced the Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act “ending the use of ‘warrant-proof’ encrypted technology by terrorists and other bad actors to conceal illicit behavior.” Experts and privacy advocates think it can effectively outlaw strong encryption.
U.S. University Pays Over $1M Ransom in Bitcoin to Hackers to Regain Access to Encrypted Data
On June 1, University of California San Francisco (UCSF) detected and subsequently stopped a cyber-attack, wherein threat actors obtained access to a part of the School of Medicine’s IT infrastructure. As part of the attack, the hackers encrypted a number of servers, making them temporarily inaccessible.
Blockstack’s Muneeb Ali: Bitcoin as the Most Secure Blockchain Will Be the Best Foundational Layer for Web 3.0
The upcoming launch of Stacks 2.0, the major protocol release that will allow blockchain developers and miners to participate in the deployment of an innovative new consensus mechanism, dubbed Proof of Transfer (PoX), is arguably the biggest milestone so far for the New York-based Blockstack.
FBI Names Six U.S. States Most Vulnerable to Online Attacks
The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has estimated that cybercriminals stole approximately $2 billion from victims by virtue of compromising corporate email accounts, in 2019. Criminals continued to invent new and more sophisticated types of attacks last year, although quite widespread extortion, government impersonation, and spoofing were the three crime categories newly added […]
Trading with Bybit: Liquidation, Margin, and USDT Contracts
There are two kinds of people who hold cryptocurrency: investors and traders. Investors don’t make deals very often, sometimes only once in a few years, if at all. Traders do it often, many even on a daily basis.
U.S. Accuses Julian Assange of Recruiting LulzSec and Anonymous Hackers to Steal Gov’t Documents for WikiLeaks
A United States district court has released an indictment alleging Julian Assange, the founder of the online archive containing thousands of classified documents from government and corporate entities, WikiLeaks, of an attempt to recruit hackers from the LulzSec and Anonymous hacker groups to obtain sensitive information from government systems. Once stolen, the documents would appear […]
Secure Identity Expert Explains How Cryptography Gives Us Power Over Personal Data
The ubiquitous digitization brings both the better ways of handling information and more opportunities for bad actors to exploit whatever we put online.
Amnesty Tech Exec: NSO Group’s Malicious Spyware Is Enabling State-Sponsored Repression of Human Rights Defenders
Amnesty Tech, a global collective of researchers, hackers, and advocates campaigning for human rights, has claimed that Israeli tech company NSO Group committed a government-backed surveillance operation over journalists.
Eastern European Hacker Group Stole $200m From Crypto Exchanges via Supply-Chain Attack
Israeli cybersecurity firm ClearSky has detected that the so-called hacker group CryptoCore has managed to steal over $200 million from cryptocurrency exchanges and companies in two years. For the most part, the threat actors—also named by ClearSky as Dangerous Password and Leery Turtle—have been targeting entities located in the United States and Japan.
Telegram User Data From Earlier Leaks Found on Dark Web, Contact Import Feature Is to Blame
A 900-megabyte database of Telegram users’ phone numbers, nicknames, and unique identifiers has been found posted on one of the forums on the dark web. The exact number of affected accounts isn’t known but estimated to be in the millions.
Are RSA and Cryptocurrencies Safe Despite Quantum Computing Progress?
A large aerospace contractor Honeywell released a quantum computer that’s heralded as the highest-performing device of the kind to date. The company plans on using Microsoft Azure to make its devices commercially available to a wide audience. Yet, the technology is decades from being a threat to cryptography and the very claim of Honeywell’s device […]We use cookies to improve the quality of our service.
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