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ForkLog 6 28.08.2020

Study: Data leaks caused by employees rise 47% in the first half of 2020

In the first six months of 2020, the number of data leaks from Russian companies caused by employees rose by almost half compared with the same period last year. This is according to a study by KROK, as Kommersant reports.

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ForkLog 31 27.08.2020

Personal data of Joom and Utair customers leaked online

The Bank of Russia’s FinCERT and the Visa payment system alerted banks to a data breach affecting 55,000 banking clients’ records, RBC reported, citing sources familiar with the situation.

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ForkLog 7 25.08.2020

Data on thousands of Bitcoin traders posted on the dark web

A hacker stole the personal data of users of the CryptoTrader.Tax service, designed for tax accounting when trading digital currencies. CoinDesk reports.

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ForkLog 68 24.08.2020

Australian exchanges drop Monero and other anonymous cryptocurrencies from listings

Privacy-focused coins such as Monero and ZCash have fallen out of favour with several Australian cryptocurrency exchanges.

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ForkLog 11 24.08.2020

Moscow authorities could stream data from city CCTV cameras to the public.

Moscow authorities may stream information from the city’s surveillance cameras into the public domain and sell it, according to Kommersant, in one of the contracts for installing cameras.

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ForkLog 18 19.08.2020

RosKomSvoboda calls for a moratorium on Moscow’s facial-recognition system

RosKomSvoboda has filed or prepared a lawsuit against Moscow’s police and the Department of Information Technologies, seeking to impose a moratorium on facial-recognition technologies until adequate legal safeguards against abuse are in place, according to the RosKomSvoboda website.

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ForkLog 12 06.08.2020

Study: Bitcoin Remains the Most Popular Darknet Cryptocurrency

The Block analysts studied the payment options on darknet markets. It turned out that after Bitcoin, the most popular cryptocurrencies are Monero (XMR) and Litecoin (LTC).

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ForkLog 10 04.08.2020

Monero Community to Publish Guide on Listing Privacy-Centric Cryptocurrencies on Exchanges

The Monero cryptocurrency community (XMR) and privacy protocol developers from Tari Labs are preparing a guide for exchanges on dealing with privacy-focused cryptocurrencies. This was reported by Decrypt.

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ForkLog 8 31.07.2020

Elliptic: Twitter hackers who breached accounts laundered more than half of the bitcoins through two mixers

The attackers routed more than half of the bitcoins obtained through the hack of multiple Twitter accounts through ChipMixer and Wasabi Wallet mixers. This is stated in Elliptic's latest report.

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ForkLog 14 30.07.2020

DemHack winners to receive up to 1.5 million rubles for digital citizenship solutions

ForkLog has become the media partner of the DemHack hackathon, organized by the public organization RosKomSvoboda and the Teplitsa of Social Technologies project. Its participants will work on finding solutions for digital citizenship aimed at protecting rights and representing citizens’ interests in the digital environment.

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ForkLog 56 06.05.2020

What is CoinJoin? What is ZeroLink? What is STONEWALL?

1 What is CoinJoin? CoinJoin is a technique for anonymising bitcoin transactions. 2 Who created CoinJoin, and when? The CoinJoin protocol was introduced in 2013 by Gregory Maxwell, a Bitcoin Core and Blockstream developer. 3 What problem does CoinJoin solve? Contrary to a common refrain, bitcoin does not offer full anonymity. Analysis of the public blockchain can link transactions to an individual. […]

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ForkLog 40 09.04.2020

What is the darknet? What is Tor?

1 What is the darknet? Attention! The article is outdated and awaiting an update. The darknet is a hidden network on the internet in which connections are established only between trusted peers using non‑standard ports and custom protocols. The term “darknet” is often used interchangeably with “dark web”, the part of the web accessible via overlay networks—that is, darknets.

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