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Crippling DDoS vulnerability put the entire Bitcoin market at risk
The entire Bitcoin infrastructure has been issued with a stern warning: update Bitcoin Core software or risk having the whole thing collapse. Until now, Bitcoin miners could have brought down the entire blockchain by flooding full node operators with traffic, via a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack. дальше »
2018-9-20 12:22 | |
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Crypto Wallet Protection App Wants to Secure Your Wallets Against Malware
Malware, a persistent thorn in the side of the internet’s wider community, has become an increasing concern for cryptocurrency users. A problem that comes in many forms, malicious software is leveraged by hackers to rob community members of their funds. дальше »
2018-9-18 23:37 | |
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Bittrex Delists Bitcoin Gold After Failure to Repay $252,000 in Losses
Cryptocurrency trading platform Bittrex delists Bitcoin Gold trading options after failing to negotiate reparations stemming from a 51 percent attack in May. The Four Day Attack Bitcoin Gold (BCG), a Bitcoin hard-fork released in November of 2017, is continuing to feel the negative effects from a 51 percent attack on its network in May. дальше »
2018-9-6 17:00 | |
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Blockstream VP Warns Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Investors of Double Spend Attack Possibility
Blockstream’s Vice President Warns Investors of Possible Bitcoin Cash [BCH] Double Spending Attack Blockchain technologies provider, Blockstream’s Vice President, Warren Togami took to his Twitter platform to caution investors of what he believes is a double spending problem about to happen for Bitcoin Cash [BCH]. дальше »
2018-9-5 00:49 | |
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John McAfee’s ‘Unhackable’ Bitfi Hacked for the Second Time via Cold Boot Attack
John McAfee endorsed Bitfi wallet is in the news once again. The “unhackable” wallet has been hacked again by two security researchers. Both claim that they used a cold boot attack to hack into the wallet and expose vulnerabilities in the wallet’s security. дальше »
2018-9-2 15:59 | |
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New Payfone Patent To Prevent SIM Swap and Porting Attacks
Payfone has been awarded a patent for SIM swap and porting attack prevention technology, which is already being used by organizations to reduce or eliminate fraud. The technology will also help cryptocurrency companies provide more levels of protection to their client’s accounts. дальше »
2018-8-29 13:50 | |
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Chinese Experts Detected Critical Vulnerability In NEO Code
Specialists of the Chinese cybersecurity firm Qihoo 360 revealed that they had found a bug in the NEO code, which makes the NEO blockchain vulnerable to the DoS attack. Representatives of NEO confirmed the existence of this vulnerability. дальше »
2018-8-23 13:57 | |
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Ethereum Transaction Fees Are Up Because of Ongoing Network Spamming
The Ethereum blockchain seems to be under some sort of attack by a network spamming that is causing congestion within the network which in turn, has had a negative impact on the base fee for the verification of an Ethereum transaction. дальше »
2018-8-9 23:00 | |
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Blockchain bug hunters feature prominently at this year’s Pwnie Awards
Researchers have been diligently prodding cryptocurrency and blockchain companies for kinks in their security – and it seems some of them are finally getting recognition for their work. Three researchers are up for Pwnie Awards this year – an annual showcase of the best and worst in information security. дальше »
2018-8-8 19:35 | |
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Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review: Challenging the Way It’s Always Been Done
This past week, we talked to three security experts about how to design smarter and more secure smart contracts. Google is dipping its toe in the blockchain waters by introducing integrations for applications built with Ethereum and Hyperledger. дальше »
2018-8-5 16:08 | |
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Audits and Quality Assurance: Patching the Holes in Smart Contract Security
On July 10, 2018, news broke that cryptocurrency wallet and decentralized exchange Bancor was hit with a hack. A wallet the Bancor team used to update the protocol’s smart contracts was infiltrated, and the $23. дальше »
2018-8-3 19:24 | |
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KICKICO ICO Hacked, Suffers Loses of $7.7 Million USD After Smart Contract Flaw
KICKICO was just another Initial Coin Offering (ICO) that was supposed to launch on top of the Ethereum blockchain. However, the project was hacked on July 27th and this made it lose more than 70 million KICK tokens, worth about 7. дальше »
2018-7-27 22:06 | |
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Stolen $7.7 Million Worth of ICO Tokens Will Be Refunded
KICKICO, a blockchain startup currently holding its token sale, reportedly lost $7. 7 worth of its token to a hack attack. A Medium post by Anti Danilevski, CEO of KICKICO confirmed the incident but also calmed fears of any similar occurrence in the future and promised to refund token holders. дальше »
2018-7-27 18:45 | |
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Canada Central Bank: Bitcoin Safe From 51% Attack, Double Spending
Canada’s Central Bank (BOC) released a working paper this month, Incentive Compatibility on the Blockchain. In it, BOC seems to argue the world’s most popular cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, is safe from a 51% attack, double spend scenario through the right incentive structure and proof of work (POW). дальше »
2018-7-27 22:45 | |
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SharkGate ICO
SharkGate a company that specializes in protecting websites has geared up to build the next-generation of website cyber protection: SharkGate is creating the World’s first blockchain powered Cyber Security solution designed exclusively to protect websites against hackers. дальше »
2018-7-24 20:17 | |
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Etherscan rushes to plug vulnerabilities following strange hacking attempts overnight
Etherscan, the most widely used Ethereum blockchain explorer, has quickly patched security vulnerabilities overnight as hackers exploited certain parts of its service. Hackers successfully manipulated the Disqus API – a third-party service used by Etherscan that allows for comments to be left on Ethereum wallet addresses. дальше »
2018-7-24 13:00 | |
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Bank of Canada: Double Spending is “Unrealistic” in Blockchain Technology
A study released in July 2018 by the Bank of Canada (BoC) concludes the dreaded “double spending” attack on public blockchains is an “unrealistic” outcome. Blockchain Technology Scrutinized The research study, titled “Incentive Compatibility on the Blockchain,” examines incentive rewards for maintaining a distributed ledger and models the behavior of a “cheating” participant who tampers […] The post Bank of Canada: Double Spending is “Unrealistic” in Blockchain Technology appeared first on CryptoSlate. дальше »
2018-7-24 10:00 | |
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Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad
Coin holder voting, both for governance of technical features, and for more extensive use cases like deciding who runs validator nodes and who receives money from development bounty funds, is unfortunately continuing to be popular, and so it seems worthwhile for me to write another post explaining why I (and Vlad Zamfir and others) do not consider it wise for Ethereum (or really, any base-layer blockchain) to start adopting these kinds of mechanisms in a tightly coupled form in any significant way. дальше »
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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STARKs, Part I: Proofs with Polynomials
Special thanks to Eli Ben-Sasson for ongoing help, explanations and review, coming up with some of the examples used in this post, and most crucially of all inventing a lot of this stuff; thanks to Hsiao-wei Wang for reviewing Hopefully many people by now have heard of ZK-SNARKs, the general-purpose succinct zero knowledge proof technology that can be used for all sorts of usecases ranging from verifiable computation to privacy-preserving cryptocurrency. дальше »
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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CFA Adds Topics on Cryptos and Blockchain Technology to Its Exams
Once the genie leaves the bottle, it’s impossible to put back. This narrative has been quite true for the crypto and blockchain industry. After coming under attack in its early days, most often from those industries that it disrupted the most, a sharp turnaround has come about in the last few years as more adversaries […] дальше »
2018-7-19 23:00 | |
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Ethereum Blockchain Overloads Due to Spam Attack by EOS
A DApp developer and several ETH users claim EOS is to blame for an artificially boosted price of Ethereum transactions. Over the weekend, the Ethereum (ETH) network has faced heavy congestion that some suspect to be a concerted effort at launching spam transactions. дальше »
2018-7-17 01:34 | |
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Ethereum [ETH] Blockchain Gas Price Normalized: EOS Speculated Attack
Large scale congestion was experienced during the last week by the network of Ethereum. The event reflected to many crypto-analysts and enthusiast that a serious spam launching transactions are going on. дальше »
2018-7-17 22:49 | |
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EOS Accused of Spam Attack Leading the Ethereum Blockchain to Overload
A DApp developer and several ETH users claim EOS is to blame for an artificially boosted price of Ethereum transactions. The post EOS Accused of Spam Attack Leading the Ethereum Blockchain to Overload appeared first on CoinSpeaker. дальше »
2018-7-17 22:15 | |
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Did EOS Manipulate the Ethereum Network? EOS CTO Denies the Claims
A Reddit post claims that the recent network price manipulation on the Ethereum Network could be connected to bots funded by EOS, calling it a possible case of a corporate network attack. The post also suggests that an ERC20 token could be using bots to boost volumes artificially and spam the Ethereum blockchain network. дальше »
2018-7-16 18:04 | |
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Bank of Finland Report Says Cryptos Are Not Currencies but Accounting Systems
Many of the world’s regulators are racking their brains on how to come up with relevant rules that could curb crypto’s dark uses without hampering the industry’s growth. However, the Bank of Finland released a report that has been described as a scathing attack on these digital currencies. дальше »
2018-7-13 16:04 | |
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Israeli Crypto Platform Bancor Loses $23.5 Million Worth of Tokens in Security Breach
Attacks on crypto platforms have become common in 2018. The latest victim is an Israeli start-up, Bancor, which calls itself a “liquidity network” for cryptocurrencies. The platform that lets users convert cryptocurrencies directly from their wallets suffered a security breach on Monday, July 9. дальше »
2018-7-11 16:09 | |
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$23.5 Million Stolen From Bancor Wallet, Sparking Criticism
The attack highlights both the perks and drawbacks of centralized authority in cryptocurrency exchange and blockchain technology.
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Over a Million Computers Fall Prey to Crypto Mining Attack
Local police, recently, arrested a group of Chinese technology professionals in Da Lian City over charges of running a $2 million illegal crypto mining scheme. Of the 20 suspects, 11 were released on bail while 9 others have been jailed. дальше »
2018-7-10 16:14 | |
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Syscoin Hack Disrupts Binance Prompting Temporary Shutdown 96 BTC ($600,000) is a lot of money to pay for anything, not least a single .
The BTC they received was then withdrawn, prompting Binance to temporarily cease trading and to reset all APIs, which are believed to have facilitated the attack. Intriguingly, the Syscoin hack came just one day after blockchain security protocol Blue claimed that half of the top 50 cryptocurrencies were vulnerable to “destructive flaws”. Binance Cancels All дальше »
2018-7-4 16:43 | |
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Bitcoin maximalism against narrow minded
But if Bitcoin proponents continue to ignore or attack these other applications, we may see them flourish on other networks instead. The Predestination Trap Bitcoin may very well end up the single, dominant public blockchain, but this is not guaranteed. дальше »
2018-7-3 20:01 | |
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QRL’s Quantum Resistant Blockchain Launches For Stronger Attack Security
The Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL) is developed to create a powerful, secured blockchain and it helps to prevent and create a shield from the quantum computing attacks. One of the news covered that the QRL is open source blockchain network which is protected from the quantum computing, this is the most recent threat to the […] дальше »
2018-7-2 16:52 | |
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John McAfee Asks Users to Spurn Bitcoin [BTC] Exchange
Software magnate and crypto enthusiast John McAfee came back to social media after a recent mysterious poisoning attack. This time, he is not promoting a coin but asking his followers to boycott unfair cryptocurrency companies like HitBTC. дальше »
2018-7-1 16:19 | |
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Court challenge demanded by Vitalik Buterin against new nChain patent
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has openly criticized Blockchain research company nChain’s latest patent award, calling for opponents to challenge it in court. ‘Can’t Someone Attack It In Court?’ Reacting to the patent meanwhile, Buterin appeared unimpressed at the prospect of the company using it as a basis for innovation, appearing to argue it contained no дальше »
2018-6-27 10:21 | |
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Three Ways Big Banks Can Benefit Big Time From Trading Crypto
It is no secret that big banks have expressed the desire to attack the value and premise of bitcoin and blockchain since being first introduced in 2009. Many have referred to the two as a fraudulent threat to traditional banking systems. дальше »
2018-6-24 15:00 | |
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What Is Golem? Introduction To GNT
The Golem Network could prove to be one of the most impressive dapps on the Ethereum blockchain. The platform (which launched as a beta, dubbed Brass, on Ethereum’s main net April 2018 after 14 software implementations) lets people rent out their spare computing power to join cluster computing networks. дальше »
2018-6-21 18:18 | |
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Vote Threshold Is Met: EOS Can Finally Launch Its Platform
According to data from EOS Authority, EOS has finally acquired the minimum votes required for its network to go live. After EOS failed to launch its platform on its projected launch date of June 2, a live-stream vote was called, where users voted “Go” to launch the blockchain network. дальше »
2018-6-15 03:10 | |
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New Coinbase Additions: Ethereum Classic and Crypto Index Fund
Coinbase dominated headlines across the space this week with a pair of significant developments. The San Francisco–based exchange announced on Monday, June 11, its intention to add Ethereum Classic to its trading platform and then quickly followed the news on Tuesday with the official opening of a crypto index fund. дальше »
2018-6-14 01:32 | |
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EU’s European Blockchain Observatory and Forum to Host Blockchain AMA
The European Union (EU) has announced that it will host an online Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on June 18, 2018, at 6 p. m. CEST. The event, organized and hosted by the European Blockchain Observatory and Forum of the EU, will last for 90 minutes and cover blockchain technologies with in-depth explanations, interactive discussions with panelists and public questions answered live. дальше »
2018-6-13 20:42 | |
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South Korean Exchange Coinrail Hacked, $40 Million in Crypto Reported Stolen
South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Coinrail reported a hack on its website during the early morning hours of June 10, 2018. The thieves allegedly made off with over $40 million worth of altcoins and assorted tokens. дальше »
2018-6-12 23:18 | |
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Op Ed: Venmo Offers the Ultimate Cryptocurrency Experience
Venmo could be the ultimate cryptocurrency experience from a user-experience perspective. Any cryptocurrency that seeks to power the future of global transactions must ensure that it is supported by a payment system that is simple, user-friendly and free — like Venmo. дальше »
2018-6-11 16:51 | |
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