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The NFT gaming platform is making key changes to its internal security framework after narrowly avoiding a $63 million hack.
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This last article explores the security challenges identified by the Ledger Donjon when building a seed recovery service, and how regular internal and external security audits are conducted in order to guarantee the maximum of security to users.
2023-9-23 14:38 | |
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The Kenyan government has announced the suspension of all activities related to Worldcoin, the recently launched cryptocurrency project. Minister of Internal Security Kithure Kindiki made the announcement on August 2,...
2023-8-3 15:09 | |
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Brad Garlinghouse reveals details about the SEC and Hinman, unveiling cryptic communications and regulatory challenges. Ripple disputes regulator's claim that XRP is a security
2023-6-17 14:59 | |
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New evidence suggests that Ripple's XRP token may not be classified as security, according to SEC's recently unearthed internal emails
2023-5-21 12:07 | |
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In order for blockchain firms to truly validate their internal security protocols, they need to be audited thoroughly. Here’s a brief rundown of how the process goes.
2022-8-28 16:02 | |
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The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation along with the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has reportedly shut down an "organized criminal community." It notThe post Russia: Authorities crack down upon hackers' group 'REvil', seizes $5.5 million appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2022-1-15 16:30 | |
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ADALend’s key priority is the health and security of the protocol. The platform will incorporate internal and external oracles to maintain multiple computational layers of price-checks to maintain the liquidity pools.
2021-12-10 15:30 | |
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San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase erroneously told about 125,000 of its customers that their security settings had changed. The company, which started publicly trading on the Nasdaq in April through a direct listing, said that it resulted from an internal error.
2021-8-31 18:56 | |
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Following the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) lawsuit against Ripple Labs, there have been speculations that Ethereum might be next in line to be branded as a security. Ripple’s motion to compel the SEC to produce internal documents relating to Bitcoin, Ethereum, and its XRP have fueled these speculations. The payment giant Ripple wants the […]
2021-6-16 14:53 | |
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The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has asked the judge in the SEC v. Ripple case to block Ripple and its executives from accessing various internal records it claims are unrelated to determining whether XRP is a security.
2021-4-22 21:30 | |
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The Ethereum Foundation will ramp up the security of its much anticipated Ethereum 2. 0 network by hiring a security team dedicated to this function. According to tweets by Ethereum 2. 0 researcher, Justin Drake, the foundation has already started the recruiting process for an internal Eth2 security team.
2020-8-4 18:52 | |
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A worse scenario than the recent attack against Twitter could happen if the social media network doesn’t strengthen its internal security procedures, say experts.
2020-7-21 10:08 | |
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A security incident on Twitter duped businesses and people into sending at least $120,000 worth of Bitcoin to an anonymous online wallet, half of which has already been spirited to other accounts. Given that some of the Twitter accounts targeted were using two-factor authentication (2FA) and strong passwords, the hack may be internal to twitter. […]
2020-7-16 15:35 | |
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Bitmain, a crypto mining company, is in talks with US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) on a possible launch of an initial public offering in the country following a failed launch on Hong Kong exchanges in March this year.
2019-10-30 18:25 | |
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Japanese politicians are barred from accepting cash and security donations but can receive crypto assets, says internal affairs minister Sanae Takaichi
2019-10-9 17:19 | |
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AirSwap, an Ethereum based peer to peer decentralized exchange announced a “critical vulnerability” in their new smart contract release during the weekend. The internal security review processes picked out a loophole in the new AirSwap Instant smart contract in about 20 user addresses.
2019-9-16 17:19 | |
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AirSwap reported that their development team had detected a ‘critical vulnerability’ in a recently launched AirSwap smart contract. According to a blog released on medium, AirSwap, a decentralized token-trading platform built on the Ethereum blockchain, revealed that on 12th September, the internal security review team recognized a major flaw in the mainnet of the smart […] The post Ethereum-based AirSwap reports vulnerability issue on newly released smart contract appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-9-15 19:30 | |
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Telegram messenger just fixed a bug that stored a picture you sent via a message even if you ‘unsend’ the message. The vulnerability, discovered by security researcher Dhiraj Mishra, affected the messenger’s last stable version (5.
2019-9-12 15:07 | |
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Special thanks to the Plasma Group team for review and feedback Current approaches to layer 2 scaling - basically, Plasma and state channels - are increasingly moving from theory to practice, but at the same time it is becoming easier to see the inherent challenges in treating these techniques as a fully fledged scaling solution for Ethereum.
2019-9-2 04:03 | |
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Web hosting provider Hostinger has forcibly reset all of its client passwords as a “precautionary measure” following an unauthorized access of its customer database, which contains some 14 million users.
2019-8-26 14:32 | |
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Hackers have stolen a massive trove of sensitive data and defaced the website of SyTech, a major contractor working for Russian intelligence agency FSB (Federal Security Service). BBC Russia, which reported the breach, said “it’s possible that this is the largest data leak in the history of the work of Russian special services on the Internet.
2019-7-22 08:36 | |
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The recent zero-day security flaw in Firefox has been used in attacks against Coinbase exchange, according to internal security experts
2019-6-21 19:08 | |
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The recent zero-day security flaw in Firefox has been used in attacks against Coinbase exchange, according to internal security experts
2019-6-20 19:08 | |
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Rewind to late 2018. The space was seen as a haven for bad actors. Despite it all, some of the projects not only survived but thrived achieving even a bit more than anyone could have ever believed.
2019-5-25 21:02 | |
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Security tokens are coming to Bitcoin, courtesy of Blockstream. The Bitcoin and blockchain technology company announced on May 15, 2019, the final day of the Consensus 2019 conference, that Liquid Securities, a platform for issuing and managing security tokens on its Liquid sidechain, is ready to go live.
2019-5-16 19:14 | |
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Crypto security and intelligence firm CipherTrace has published its Q1 2019 Cryptocurrency Anti-Money Laundering Report, revealing that exchange platforms all over the world have lost nearly $400 million as a result of hacks and thefts.
2019-5-3 17:40 | |
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Within the sphere of traditional finance, at least, crypto has a custody problem. The problem? Crypto is complicated, security is tricky and — if we’re being frank — the suits don’t know a bit from a byte (or a blockchain from a cloud server).
2019-4-12 22:03 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Lylian Tang. The Chinese security service provider 360 Security has issued a warning that a large number of crypto exchanges have been targeted by the North Korean hacker group Lazarus and that the number is still rising after the recent hacks of crypto exchanges DragonEx, Etbox and BiKi.
2019-4-2 21:54 | |
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When Coinbase acquired Neutrino for an unspecified amount in February 2019, the news looked like business as usual: A cryptocurrency juggernaut had made another acquisition.
2019-3-1 17:19 | |
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For investors whose first time investing in bitcoin was in 2018 or after late 2017, there is a high likelihood that they have incurred substantial losses for the fiscal year of 2018 if they haven’t sold yet.
2018-12-29 02:01 | |
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Purism, the company behind the upcoming ultra-private Librem 5 smartphone, has announced it’s started shipping development kits to its backers. The dev kit, which is based on Purism’s customized i.
2018-12-19 13:18 | |
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Circle’s USD Coin (USDC) has released an independent, third-party attestation of its bank account, and according to a top 5 public accounting firm, the stablecoin has its funds in order.
2018-11-22 22:05 | |
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Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange OKEx has added the Vietnamese Dong (VND) on its Customer-to-Customer (C2C) trading system, enabling Vietnamese customers to exchange their fiat currency for tokens on the platform.
2018-11-14 21:54 | |
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International cybersecurity solutions provider Group-IB has come up with a scoring model to grade crypto exchanges based on their level of security. The scoring model was created by Group-IB in conjunction with Swiss-based Cryptolns (which is operated by Swiss insurance broker APIS AS), and the grading is intrinsic to CryptoIns’ new cryptocurrency exchange insurance, which will allow exchange users to cover up to 15 BTC worth of digital assets held in their exchange accounts.
2018-11-13 00:43 | |
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Google today revealed it’d be shutting down the consumer version of Google+ in response to a previously undisclosed security flaw — and also because no one’s really using it. Earlier today, the Wall Street Journal reported Google discovered the flaw, which exposed the data of thousands of users, earlier this year.
2018-10-9 01:02 | |
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A lot of us rely on third-party repair shops when our Macs go bust. But according to a report by MacRumors, Apple’s new security chip (called T2) will prevent any component replacements in the new MacBook Pros and iMac Pro from non-authorised repair centers.
2018-10-5 12:43 | |
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A security officer belonging to the French Intelligence Agency – General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI) was arrested last week for selling state secrets on the Dark Web in exchange for bitcoin, reported Le Parisien on October 1, 2018.
2018-10-4 13:00 | |
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Ever wanted to find out more about secret and special operations in France? Ever wondered what secrets exist at a government level? Well, according to reports out today, an unidentified agent from the General Directorate for Internal Security (GDIS) has been selling French state secrets on the dark web in exchange for Bitcoin.
2018-10-2 15:30 | |
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A French security official has earned themselves a fast-track ticket to the Bastille after being arrested for allegedly selling “state secrets” on the dark web in exchange for Bitcoin. The unidentified agent, who worked for the General Directorate for internal security (GDIS), was arrested on September 26, Le Parisien reports.
2018-10-2 12:51 | |
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Bitcoin means an ambitious categorisation effort by regular financial companies resulting in some viewing this alluring new asset class as much as a hybrid of a currency as it is an investment. Bitcoin has been declared as a commodity by the Commodities Future Trading Commission (CFTC).
2018-9-17 00:30 | |
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A former Tesla employee today filed a formal complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission alleging the automaker failed to disclose to shareholders a drug trafficking operation run out of its Nevada Gigafactory.
2018-8-17 04:13 | |
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On August 8, 2018, ShapeShiftAG, the parent company of ShapeShift. io, one of the world's largest decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges, announced its acquisition of Bitfract, a blockchain software startup based in Austin, Texas.
2018-8-10 19:33 | |
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Although the ideas behind the current Ethereum protocol have largely been stable for two years, Ethereum did not emerge all at once, in its current conception and fully formed. Before the blockchain has launched, the protocol went through a number of significant evolutions and design decisions.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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One major class of attacks to hit the hacking landscape recently is cryptomining. While cryptomining on its own supports a good cause when being done consciously, it also allows nefarious actors to make a lot of money fast, and, with the sheer number of cryptocurrencies available to mine, it is becoming a popular choice for attackers.
2018-7-18 23:18 | |
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Last year, growing problems of Bitcoin mining centralization came to light with the controversy of an AsicBoost scandal. As a largely centralized hash rate began to threaten the software’s magical property, concerns were raised that incentives at the crux of Bitcoin’s game theory had broken away.
2018-6-29 16:42 | |
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Earlier this week, the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) in Switzerland issued a new document as part of its annual economic report that warns citizens of the dangers of digital currencies.
2018-6-20 22:29 | |
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