2020-3-17 20:20 |
A Baidu employee who mined Monero on company servers is jailed for three years
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2020-3-17 20:20 |
A Baidu employee who mined Monero on company servers is jailed for three years
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The search engine developer downloaded monero mining scripts onto 200 of Baidu's servers.
2020-3-17 18:00 | |
Japanese financial services behemoth SBI Holdings’ subsidiaries is forming a partnership with Whinstone US Inc. , the data centers operator of the Texas-based German tech company Northern Data AG. The news was released on February 13.
2020-2-13 20:55 | |
HyperBlock, an operator of cryptocurrency data centers in North America, today announced it has secured up to USD $3,540,000 in financing. The three-year agreement will allow the company to invest in additional Bitmain servers, aimed to increase HyperBlock’s maximum hashrate capacity.
2020-1-21 18:35 | |
Beijing-based Canaan Creative, a leading manufacturer of blockchain servers and solutions for repetition ASIC chips, has again filed to go public (this time in the US markets). The company, which is one of the world’s...
2019-10-29 09:44 | |
WordPress plugins are typically used to provide webmasters with additional functionality for their websites. However, what they might not know is that some of these plugins may contain a hidden cryptocurrency mining exploit.
2019-10-20 23:42 | |
Researchers have discovered several malicious WordPress plugins that are being used to surreptitiously mine cryptocurrency by running Linux binary code. According to the researchers at website security company Sucuri, the plugins are also being used to maintain access to compromised servers.
2019-10-18 17:24 | |
Just as Apple made available iOS 13. 1 and iPadOS after a rather messy rollout, the iPhone maker is warning users of a security issue impacting third-party keyboard apps. The bug — unresolved in its latest updates released yesterday — could potentially allow keyboard makers to gather keystroke data without your knowledge and relay it back to their servers.
2019-9-25 09:48 | |
OpenRelay launches Rivet, a privacy-focused Ethereum gateway - CryptoNinjas Blockchain-infrastructure company OpenRelay has announced the launch of Rivet, a privacy-focused, open source gateway to Ethereum which aims to protect Web3 users from exploitative data-mining practices.
2019-9-10 20:53 | |
Coinbase has recently reported that the company found a vulnerability in its system that affected the passwords of some users. According to the company, some passwords were stored in a plain text file on the company’s servers.
2019-8-17 01:07 | |
Apple is rolling out its much sought-after credit card to select users today. The company said the card, issued in partnership with Goldman Sachs, will be made available to all iPhone users in the US later this month.
2019-8-6 16:52 | |
There are a lot of interesting and worrisome developments going on in the technology sector these days. Flipboard, one of the more social mediums in 2019, has forced users to reset their passwords.
2019-5-30 00:00 | |
Accounting firm Grant Thornton LLC on May 27, 2019, provided an update regarding the petition for bankruptcy filed by the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia. The company said that it is working towards preserving the exchange’s users’ data stored and hosted on the servers of a U.
2019-5-27 14:39 | |
The purpose of this infographic is to visualize the size of large cryptocurrency hacks that have occurred in the past as if they all happened today. The hacks included in this infographic extend beyond exchanges, as there were other large entities that experienced cryptocurrency hacks, such as marketplaces like Silk Road 2.
2019-5-25 21:56 | |
RIF Labs has announced the integration of its public blockchain, RSK Smart Contracts, on Microsoft's Azure Marketplace. The RSK Smart Contract Network is an open-source platform that seeks to extend the functionality of Bitcoin using smart contracts and the Azure Marketplace is an app store for Microsoft’s cloud computing service.
2019-4-18 18:57 | |
Bitfinex is now open to every trader as the Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange has removed its $10,000 minimum balance rule. Citing a rising demand from retail traders who couldn't trade on the platform due to the requirement, Bitfinex CEO Jean-Louis van der Velde said the platform is now ready for a “new wave of customer accounts,” according to a company Medium post.
2019-4-11 21:50 | |
The servers of Electrum, a popular Bitcoin wallet, were under heavy denial-of-service (DoS) attacks Sunday night; The total amount stolen could be in the “millions of dollars” so far. The company advised its users to limit the use of the platform until the issue is resolved, but provided little information on the investigation that’s underway.
2019-4-9 00:00 | |
Electrum, a popular bitcoin wallet has suffered a denial-of-service attack. The company announced the attack on Twitter, assuring its users that its developers were working on a “more robust version of the Electrum server.
2019-4-9 21:42 | |
The Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange DragonEx has announced a security breach to its users via its official Telegram channel. In the message, a company administrator revealed that the hackers stole assets belonging to both the exchange and its users.
2019-3-27 22:58 | |
Samourai Wallet announced this month that its latest update supports Tor integration, offering additional privacy for users. What Does Tor Integration Enable?In a conversation with Bitcoin Magazine, Samourai’s lead developer, who is known simply as “TD,” gave a rundown of the Tor integration.
2019-3-27 20:38 | |
Market volatility took a break over Christmas, and cryptocurrency prices remained relatively stable. But with most people heading back to work, Bitcoin and other cryptos may experience unusually volatility as popular exchange site Bitfinex temporarily suspends trading.
2019-1-8 17:39 | |
Lightning is all the rage these days and, while it's an exciting development, users currently have to have a full node running in order to transact in it. In this article, I'm going to introduce Neutrino, a new protocol for light clients to get the data that they need while preserving privacy and without trusting a central server.
2019-1-4 21:11 | |
A new program to set up Lightning Network micropayments, tippin. me, has recently entered beta testing. The developer for this project described some of its details on a Reddit thread to the r/Bitcoin subreddit.
2018-12-13 22:09 | |
CryptoNinjas BTCC, the China-based bitcoin company that also ran one of the largest bitcoin mining pools first launched back in 2014, announced it will shut down all mining servers on Thursday, November 15th.
2018-11-13 10:08 | |
Cryptocurrency mining firm Bitfury Group has closed a Series C, $80 million funding round led by EU-based Korelya Capital. The round also included crypto merchant bank Galaxy Digital, Lian and Jabre Group, Dentsu Inc.
2018-11-7 01:06 | |
BTCC will be shutting down its mining pool by the end of the month. According to a recent notice made by the Hong Kong-based exchange, BTCC will deactivate its mining pool servers on November 15, 2018, and cease all operations entirely come November 30.
2018-11-7 21:29 | |
In a blog post released by Ripple on October 31, the company explains that they have introduced history sharding. The company explains that Rippled servers operate and witness data on a blockchain. It is always important for the XRP Ledger historical data to remain readily available for all the participants. Every single rippled server shares […]
2018-11-2 22:16 | |
On October 30, 2018, Storj Labs released a public alpha for their version 3 (V3) platform –– enabling developers and companies to test their decentralized cloud storage solution.
2018-10-31 17:07 | |
If blockchain-based identity platform Civic is to go mainstream, then making it simple for as many businesses and consumers as possible to start using its app will be key.
2018-10-23 20:50 | |
Here’s a fun bit of trivia: which company runs the largest cloud computing network for rendering graphics? Is it Pixar, whose 24,000-core-data center qualifies as one of the world’s top supercomputers? Or Amazon Web Services, with an estimated 4.
2018-10-18 15:54 | |
CryptoNinjas Blockchain financial ecosystem LAPO announced today it has partnered with Apollon (XAP), a company that provides services to create masternodes. The partnership offers LAPO Coin holders an easy way to set-up their masternodes through a software without worrying about servers and without.
2018-10-11 18:06 | |
The crypto world seems to be on a different planet to the regular banking world. The companies behind the various digital currencies and their products are almost out of a futuristic science fiction movie.
2018-10-11 13:00 | |
The Liquid Network is up and running. More than a year after its conceptual introduction at the Blockchain Association of Canada's Government Forum in Ottawa, Blockstream’s bitcoin scaling solution made its public debut on October 10, 2018, after going live among its partners on September 27.
2018-10-11 20:44 | |
Another cryptocurrency heist has shaken Japan. This time, 6. 7 billion yen ($60 million USD) worth of company and user funds have vanished from Japanese cryptocurrency exchange platform Zaif.
2018-9-21 19:30 | |
Plex is shuttering its Cloud offering – which lets you stream content stored in your Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive storage straight to your connected devices – at the end of November. The decision follows multiple technical issues with the service since it launched in 2016, which prompted the company to stop creating new cloud servers in February.
2018-9-12 09:17 | |
Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.
2018-9-7 00:27 | |
Handshake (HNS) is giving away $100 million in crypto to help with the global launch of the replacement system of root authority servers for the internet architecture. Are Current Root Certificate Authorities Secure? Nope.
2018-8-4 05:39 | |
As his Hungarian parents had fled post-war Soviet regime to settle in the United States, Nick Szabo came to call the Californian Bay area of the 1990s his home. Here, he was among the first to frequent the in-person “Cypherpunk” meetings organized by Timothy May, Eric Hughes and other founding members of the collective of cryptographers, programmers and privacy activists centered around the ’90s mailing list of the same name.
2018-7-13 17:16 | |