2020-12-21 01:57 |
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On Dec 18, 2020, The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), took a step closer to implementing its long-dreaded crypto wallet regulation. What Is the Proposal? Under the proposed rule, crypto exchanges would be obliged to make crypto users comply with know your customer (KYC) requirements when transferring their digital assets to personal wallets. FinCEN nowRead More
2020-12-20 16:00 | |
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The decentralized finance (DeFi) space was rocked last morning by news that Nexus Mutual founder Hugh Karp was hit with a personal attack. His project, a decentralized mutual product to allow users to hedge against risks in the DeFi space, was not directly affected.
2020-12-15 13:00 | |
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BTC Markets, one of Australia's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges, has accidentally exposed users' data, raising the risk of phishing attacks.
2020-12-2 11:54 | |
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Once again privacy and security is held in the balance as law enforcement asks to extend its judicial powers in order to gain access to end-to-end encrypted information. The important question remains — is protecting users data more or less important than protecting innocents or hunting down terrorists? When posed like that, the issue could […] The post Public Safety vs Personal Privacy: US Regulators Target Encrypted Messengers appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2020-10-21 19:23 | |
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Permission.io has raised over $50 million to reward users for engaging with ads. Will advertisers buy in?
2020-9-29 19:21 | |
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In an interesting twist–and perhaps another chess move by the Chinese central bank– is the revelation that the digital yuan may not only be stored using a “hot” wallet but a traceable hardware wallet activated by users submitting personal details as per a CoinDesk report on Sep 1.
2020-9-2 14:00 | |
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Uber Technologies’ former chief security officer was charged with covering up a data breach in 2016 that compromised the personal information of 57 million drivers and users. Ex-CSO Joseph Sullivan is charged with obstruction of justice and failing to report the knowledge of felony, according to a statement from US attorney David L. Anderson in […]
2020-8-21 18:53 | |
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BitMEX‘s new KYC policy requires all users to submit their personal information to the exchange by February 2021. This presents an opportunity for the exchange to cater to a broader...
2020-8-14 13:19 | |
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BitMEX‘s new KYC policy requires all users to submit their personal information to the exchange by February 2021. This presents an opportunity for the exchange to cater to a broader...
2020-8-15 13:19 | |
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Cryptocurrency hardware provider Ledger experienced a data leak that led to personal details of customers being compromised. User funds are, however, safe. Details Of The Ledger Data Leak In a blog post on July 29, Ledger revealed that its e-commerce and marketing database was hacked between June and July, leaking one million email IDs and […]
2020-7-29 17:39 | |
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Touted as the world's first peer to peer wireless network, Helium Hotspots allows users to connect a wide variety of IoT devices to the internet while earning the hotspot controller, Helium (HNT) cryptocurrency.
2020-6-20 20:24 | |
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Crypto exchange Coinbase is, once again, in hot water over its relationship with regulators. While the exchange is not selling personal user data, there are mounting concerns from customers and... The post Claims of Selling Bitcoin Users’ Data “Are Overblown,” Says Coinbase appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2020-6-8 15:21 | |
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Coincheck suffered a data breach that may have leaked users’ emails and personal information, including date of birth and phone number.
2020-6-3 19:30 | |
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Coinspeaker ARCS Chain Carves a Path to Revolutionize Data Banking & PrivacyIFA’s ARCS chain brings an ecosystem where personal privacy is precious and users get a fairer distribution of profits made from their personal data.
2020-4-5 23:29 | |
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According to PingWest, a Chinese technology publication, Sina Weibo, which most consider it the Chinese version of Twitter, had a data breach that caused 538 million records of its users to be exposed.
2020-3-20 19:31 | |
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According to a report published by Russian media outlet Izvestia on March 5, 2020, Maltese Trident Crypto Fund has suffered a major data leak which is speculated to have compromised personal data of over 266,000 users registered with the platform.
2020-3-6 22:00 | |
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The personal data of about 266,000 people registered with the fund may have been exposed.
2020-3-6 16:30 | |
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Avast, an antivirus software utilized by millions of individuals across the world has been selling very sensitive and personal web browsing data to various global firms, a fresh investigation conducted by PCMag and Motherboard indicate, Decrypt reports.
2020-1-31 19:17 | |
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Data breaches have become a very common occurrence. The latest development in this space exposes personal information of over 30,000 cannabis users across the US. It is only the latest data breach in a growing list.
2020-1-24 07:00 | |
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A Congressional bill seeking to exempt daily crypto purchases and transactions from capital gains taxation has been returned to the US Congress. The bill known as “The Virtual Currency Tax Fairness Act of 2020,” seeks to exempt digital currency expenditures that are personal transactions from capital gains taxation. Users will not be required to report […]
2020-1-17 00:18 | |
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It is Big Tech’s moment in the financial world right now. Between the Google Pay processes that link consumers’ checking accounts and the Libra project, the decision to infiltrate the financial world with major tech is no hidden secret.
2019-12-3 20:01 | |
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A security researcher from the data breach index site “Have I Been Pwned” recently reported that personal data and passwords belonging to GateHub wallet users had been dumped in a hacking community website.
2019-11-20 17:07 | |
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Password data and personal information of 1.4 million users of GateHub cryptocurrency wallet service have reportedly been dumped online
2019-11-21 04:18 | |
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Facebook has had a 2013 patent related to personal finance approved. The patent describes a tool that tracks and compares the financial transactions of users against other users, purportedly to better help them manage their spending and note trends based on their demographics.
2019-11-8 14:10 | |
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Vault12, developers of proprietary technology to protect private keys with a trusted network of friends, family, and devices, today launched their first personal cryptocurrency security solution to provide distributed, decentralized backup of crypto assets for individual users.
2019-10-31 19:38 | |
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Earlier this month, Dutch crypto exchange Bitvavo announced a partnership with Cryptohopper, which enables Bitvavo users to apply personal trading strategies using an automated trading bot. Cryptohopper offers an expert suite of tools, that is now compatible with Bitvavo.
2019-10-29 17:43 | |
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The Diamond Open Market,an EOS-based platform to buy and sell natural and lab-grown diamonds, heirloom or other jewelery, is opening the formerly closed diamond market for everybody. DOM will present a marketplace and a trading platform for businesses and individuals working as a reliable tool for B2B, B2C or P2P relations.
2019-10-11 22:33 | |
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The widow of the CEO of the defunct Canadian cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX is surrendering personal assets to assist with the repayments of user’s affected by the exchange‘s sudden collapse.
2019-10-8 11:27 | |
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A new type of banking Trojan is rampant in the Latin American region that may steal your cryptocurrency assets. ESET, a Slovakian based antivirus company, announced on Oct. 2 a new virus, Casbaneiro, also referred to as Metamorfo, is attacking banking services and personal cryptocurrency wallets. According to a blog post by ESET, the Trojan […]
2019-10-4 17:16 | |
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Preserving your online privacy has become almost a lost cause these days. Thankfully, some entrepreneurial minds have taken it upon themselves to help web users stay informed of privacy risks and take action to thwart attempts to access their personal data.
2019-10-1 05:20 | |
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Binance Compliance unit has been cooperating with UK Police in an investigation regarding the creation and sale of phishing scripts. A Bulgarian citizen has been extradited to the UK as part of an investigation that found him guilty for illegally pinching personal data of around 500,00 users across 53 different platforms according to Binance officialRead MoreRead More.
2019-9-28 21:00 | |
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Social Finance, Inc. (SoFi), a United States-based online personal finance platform that offers student loan refinancing, mortgages, and personal loans has finally launched its cryptocurrency trading service.
2019-9-27 09:00 | |
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Early this year, SoFi, a US-based online personal finance company, made news after it announced that the firm was planning to enter into a partnership with Coinbase to launch a virtual assets trading platform.
2019-9-21 14:00 | |
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On Septmeber 13th, the Pocketnet team released an update to users’ personal pages that allows anybody to check an account’s post history sorted by ranking. This is just the first step of many more options that will be introduced to your personal Pocketnet page.
2019-9-18 10:18 | |
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Mozilla is officially launching its Firefox Private Network VPN service for desktop users in the US. The VPN service, currently in beta, is part of a pilot experiment to test-drive new, privacy-centric products from the Firefox maker.
2019-9-11 08:45 | |
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Despite having a CEO who is the fifth-richest person in the world, Facebook failed to pay a $46 fine to Russian authorities. The fine originated from Facebook's failure to comply with a 2015 law that requires foreign-based online service providers — such as social media platforms — to store the personal data of their users […] The post Facebook Stiffs Russia Over Wallet-Busting $46 Fine appeared first on CCN.com
2019-9-10 23:04 | |
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For a company that’s in the business of tracking users’ online activities, Google sure is going all out to prove it’s dead serious about privacy. To that effect, the internet behemoth is open-sourcing a library that it uses to glean insights from aggregate data in a privacy-preserving manner.
2019-9-5 17:16 | |
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Coinspeaker Facebook Database Containing Private Information of 400 Million Users Has Been Found OnlineA database with personal data of hundreds of millions of Facebook users has been found online by a security researcher.
2019-9-5 13:41 | |
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If you think that virtual reality is something that relates exclusively to the field of games and entertainment, then you are deeply mistaken. Goldman Sachs predicts that by 2025, the VR industry will grow up to $ 80 billion.
2019-9-5 13:23 | |
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Brave, the budding privacy-focused browser with its own native cryptocurrency, has alleged that Google is using hidden web pages to feed personal data of its users to advertisers, reports Financial Times.
2019-9-4 18:58 | |
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The head of Binance, CZ, announces another AMA session coming, Twitter users are leaving various questions on Twitter, including some peculiar ones
2019-8-27 15:18 | |
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Another day, another data breach. This time, the victim is adult website Luscious, which lets users upload pornographic images and animations behind anonymous usernames. But as it turns out, the promise of anonymity might’ve been misleading, to say the least.
2019-8-20 13:05 | |
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Crypto transactions are carried out via two keys, a private and public key, that link cryptocurrency assets to their owners. Digital wallets are software that store those keys, enabling users to monitor their funds and send and receive coins by interacting with various blockchains.
2019-8-15 23:50 | |
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Litecoin has recently been targeted by malicious actors who have sought to break on-chain privacy through a dusting attack. As explained by Binance Vision, the education wing of the exchange, a dusting attack occurs when hackers send dust (an amount below the current average fee) to the personal account of a user and track itRead MoreRead More.
2019-8-11 01:00 | |
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A large scale dusting attack has been suffered by Litecoin users, reported Binance on August 10. A dusting attack is a new kind of malicious activity where scammers and hackers try and break the privacy of the cryptocurrency users by sending tiny amounts of coins to their personal wallets. Attackers track down the transaction activity […]
2019-8-10 20:23 | |
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An explosive article in Motherboard alleges that contractors working for Microsoft are listening to the conversations of Skype users conducted through the app’s real-time translation service. The piece, penned by cybersecurity reporter Joseph Cox, cites a trove of internal documentation, screenshots, and audio recordings obtained by the publication.
2019-8-8 19:25 | |
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Google has just announced several updates to its enterprise cloud platform with an aim to improve users, data, and app security. The new enhancements were unveiled at Google Cloud Next ’19 conference in Tokyo this week.
2019-8-1 10:31 | |
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PumaPay’s cryptocurrency billing solution now PCI compliant » CryptoNinjas PumaPay, a blockchain-based payment system, announced today that their crypto billing solution, PullPayment Protocol, has secured PCI (payment card industry) compliance.
2019-7-29 17:13 | |
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Personal privacy is a huge problem on the internet, as evident in Facebook’s latest privacy fiasco. Companies routinely mine data on their users, from political leanings to holiday destinations and buying preferences.
2019-7-28 20:13 | |
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A crypto holder lost $282M in Bitcoin and Litecoin to the social engineering scam, exposing hardware wallet vulnerabilities despite advanced security.
Chinese state-sponsored hackers exploited Anthropic Claude Code AI in the world’s first largely autonomous cyber-espionage campaign, proving that machine agents can now run sprawling digital attacks with only minimal human input.
"Once you get hacked in most of the cases you're done," CEO Dadosh said. "And this is what we're trying to prevent."
PolySwarm (NCT) has registered an over 90% price increase in the past 24 hours, as major crypto assets experience minor dips across the board. PolySwarn is a blockchain project focused on strengthening cybersecurity in the Web3 space. The current PolySwarm(NCT)…
Cybersecurity professional Christian Seifert gave an example on how Discord’s measures against malicious links can be abused by scammers.
The world’s leading crypto exchange by trading volume has reportedly applied to register in Taiwan under the new AML compliance.
Twitter users have been sharing security incidents surrounding the crypto exchange, including claims that scammers are using Coinbase’s domain name for attacks.