Blockchain Wallet CoinPouch Hacked; Verge Coins Stolen

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Tether Hacked — Attacker Steals $31 Million of Digital Tokens

Again some bad news for cryptocurrency users. Tether, a Santa Monica-based start-up that provides a dollar-backed cryptocurrency tokens, has claimed that its systems have been hacked by an external attacker, who eventually stole around $31 million worth of its tokens. With a market capitalization...

Harassment scandals, Sheldon Cooper, Black Mirror and blockchain

Lots of good jokes in a popular TV show The Big Bang Theory are related to Sheldon Cooper's bureaucracy in interpersonal relationships: all these "roommate agreement", "relationship agreement", etc. However, because of these endless harassment scandals in media, now it seems like a best practice ...

Hundreds of Millions in Digital Currency Remains Frozen

Between $150 million and $300 million in digital currency called ether remains inaccessible today after a user said he “accidentally” triggered a vulnerability that froze the funds in the popular Parity wallet. Parity Technologies issued an advisory warning users about the flaw in the Parity Wall...

Explained: blockchain technology

Last week, we talked about what cryptocurrency is and why cybercriminals love it. We mentioned that cryptocurrency was founded on a technology called blockchain, which is a tight system that, when applied correctly, is more secure than most other financial transactions. In this post, we'll explai...

Learn Ethereum Development – Build Decentralized Blockchain Apps

As of today — 1 Bitcoin = $7300 USD Approx 471,000 INR At the beginning of this year, 1 Bitcoin was approximately equal to $1000, and now it has surged to a new height, marking its market capitalization at over $124 billion. Is it really too late to invest in Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies lik...

What is cryptocurrency and why do cybercriminals love it?

Ever pretend you know what your friends are talking about because you want to sound smart and relevant—and then trap yourself in a lie? “Wow, looks like those hackers were mining for cryptocurrency. You know what cryptocurrency is, right?” “Oh yeah, totally. Cryptocurrency. Bad stuff. You know...

November 1, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “November” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! November 1, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: How to Make a Ransomware...

Monero: Out-of-bounds read when importing corrupt blockchain with monero-blockchain-import

It is possible to trigger an out-of-bounds read in monero-blockchain-import when importing a corrupt blockchain and not verifying blocks and transitions during import --verify 0. Using a corrupt importfile, the attacker has full control over bufferblock in importfromfile blockchainimport.cpp. As...

October 18, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “NBA” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! October 18, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Australia’s breach...

Satoshi Bomb

Let us discuss what defines the profitability of bitcoin mining, what principles for mining speed adaptation were initially embedded into it, and why these principles can lead to the failure of the cryptocurrency in the long run. We assume that the reader has an idea of basic Bitcoin mechanics su...

China Bans Fundraising Through Initial Coin Offering (ICO)

China's central bank today announced an immediate ban on all ICO—Initial Coin Offering—fundraising, to prevent fraud and illegal fundraising. ICO is the hottest new thing in the blockchain world, which is an alternative to crowdfunding that lets a firm raise funding from multiple sources. The...

August 21, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Solar Eclipse” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! August 21, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Trump increases status of...

Microsoft Launches Ethereum-Based 'Coco Framework' to Speed Up Blockchain Network

A growing number of enterprises are showing their interest in blockchains, but the underlying software fails to meet key enterprise requirements like performance, confidentiality, governance, and required processing power. However, Microsoft wants to help solve these issues and make it easier for...

This Week in Security News

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

Classic Ether Wallet Compromised via Social Engineering

Classic Ether Wallet, an open source wallet for the public, blockchain-based cryptocurrency platform Ethereum Classic ETC was compromised late last week. Developers of the decentralized platform said an attacker managed to hijack the domain for the wallet via social engineering late Thursday...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

bitcoin-ruby is vulnerable to denial of service DoS attacks. There is a flaw in the Merkle hash implementation that Bitcoin uses to calculate the Merkle root in a block header. Block hash collisions can easily be made by duplicating transactions in the Merkle tree. A record collision would preven...

Bitcoin Price Jumps Above $1150 — Highest in last 3 Years

What a good start of the New Year for those holding Bitcoins! Web-based digital currency Bitcoin has passed $1,110 for the first time on the Bitstamp Price Index BPI since early November 2013. Bitcoin broke the barrier on 1 January and now is trading above $1,150 mark at the time of writing,...

NYU Students Apply Blockchain Solution to Electronic Voting Security

The contentious U.S. presidential election elevated a number of critical security issues to the forefront, perhaps none more important for the long-term than questions of voter fraud and electronic voting security. If voting is ever to move away from paper ballots, the integrity of the process mu...

Blockchain Based DNS: dnschain

Blockchain Based DNS DNSChain makes it possible to be certain that you’re communicating with who you want to communicate with, and connecting to the sites that you want to connect to, without anyone secretly listening in on your conversations in between, DNSChain provides security properties that...