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Number of accounts on Stellar (XLM) doubling to 2 million in only 2 months
Stellar blockchain just reached a big milestone – 2 million open accounts on their network. As you would expect, this achievement is celebrated in the community as an evidence of XLM adoption. дальше »
2018-12-1 22:33 | |
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Dallas: Crypto Firm Arrested by FBI for $4 Million Fraud
The FBI has arrested the CEO of Dallas-based AriseBank on November 28, 2018, reports Dallas News. The arrest was made after allegations of company CEO, Jared Rice Sr. duping hundreds of investors out of more than $4 million. дальше »
2018-11-30 14:00 | |
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AriseBank CEO Charged in $4 Million Alleged ICO Scam
Jared Rice Sr. , CEO of the Dallas-based bank AriseBank, was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Wednesday, November 28, 2018, and charged with six counts of securities fraud and wire fraud. дальше »
2018-11-30 23:03 | |
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Blockchain CEO faces 120 years in prison for $4M cryptocurrency scam
The CEO of blockchain startup AriseBank, Jared Rice, is facing up to 120 years in prison for duping numerous investors out of $4 million in a cryptocurrency scheme. Rice promised his cryptocurrency would offer Visa-like functionality, but instead he spent investors’ Bitcoin on hotels and clothes. дальше »
2018-11-29 14:43 | |
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A First: U.S. Treasury Makes Bitcoin Addresses Focal Point in Sanctions
For the first time, the U. S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has traced illicit bitcoin activity to the public addresses of two sanctioned individuals. дальше »
2018-11-29 21:41 | |
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Here’s how we take back control over our digital identities
The data reckoning has arrived. We’re already too familiar with the breach headlines: Equifax, Under Armour, Target. But in 2018, social media brands came under the spotlight as well: half a million accounts’ data were inadvertently exposed in Google+, and another 29 million users’ data in the Facebook breach this fall. дальше »
2018-11-24 13:30 | |
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USD Coin (USDC): Circle Issues Attestation Report of US Dollar Reserves Backing USDC
The attestation report made by Grant Thornton US has verified Circle’s claims that more than 127.4 million USDC coins in circulation were backed by the same amount of fiat money in custody accounts. дальше »
2018-11-22 20:07 | |
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Silicon Valley Execs Targeted in ‘SIM Swap’ Hacking, $1 Million in Crypto Stolen
A twenty-one-year-old New Yorker has stolen cryptocurrency worth a million dollars from a Silicon Valley executive by exploiting a tactic known as “SIM swapping” to take over phone number accounts by duping wireless carriers. дальше »
2018-11-22 14:00 | |
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Price Dip Aside, Paxful Anticipates Big Week of Gift Card-to-Bitcoin Trades
That special time of year is coming up — the time when individuals trade in their unwanted or unusable gift cards for bitcoin. And with the price of bitcoin dropping, peer-to-peer (P2P) bitcoin marketplace Paxful is making it possible to use these gift cards to “buy the dip. дальше »
2018-11-22 19:12 | |
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Bitcoin beatdown ‘victim’ jailed for $1M cryptocurrency theft
Remember that kid that got tortured by his friends in an attempt to steal his Bitcoin about a month ago? Well, turns out he may have actually made his cryptocurrency fortune by stealing it from a Silicon Valley exec, after pulling an elaborate SIM-swapping scheme. дальше »
2018-11-21 14:28 | |
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Facebook hack proves we need new user authentication methods
Just when you thought Facebook has put the worst of its troubles behind, the social media giant revealed on Friday that it had experienced a new security incident that possibly affected 90 million users. дальше »
2018-11-20 17:28 | |
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2FA codes are great for security, except when 26M of them are leaked
Just when you thought two-factor authentication was enough to secure your online accounts, a troubling discovery shows how this system can be comprised, thanks to human error. TechCrunch reports that a database of text messages containing more than 26 million 2FA codes, password reset links, and delivery tracking details was left out in the open … This story continues at The Next Web дальше »
2018-11-16 13:22 | |
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Facebook removed 1.5 billion fake accounts between April and September
Facebook released its community standards report today, in which it detailed how it dealt with fake news, spam, hate speech, and terrorist propaganda on its platform. The company noted that, between April and September 2018, it removed a whopping 1. дальше »
2018-11-16 10:16 | |
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Australian Taxpayers Have Paid $1 Million to Scammers Through Bitcoin ATMs Since July
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has used official channels to warn taxpayers of scammers who are fooling people into paying their taxes through Bitcoin ATMs to their accounts. As the deadline approaches on 21 November, the authority told the one million taxpayers, who will need to make a payment to the ATO, to be wary. дальше »
2018-11-15 03:00 | |
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Target and Google Official Twitter Accounts Hacked, Used for Crypto Scams
In what is becoming an emerging trend, Twitter accounts of popular brands are being hacked in an attempt to scam unsuspecting users out of their cryptocurrencies. Target and Google are two high profile targets that have seen their accounts taken over by hackers who, in turn, have used them to scam followers by advertising fraudulent crypto giveaways. дальше »
2018-11-15 23:40 | |
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Canadian Court Takes Custody of Crypto Exchange’s Frozen Funds
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has recently moved to take custody of a large sum of assets from a crypto exchange currently frozen in accounts at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). дальше »
2018-11-15 22:14 | |
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Google, Target Twitter Accounts Hacked To Advertise Bitcoin Scams
Target Twitter Account Hacked To Promote Bitcoin (BTC) Scam On Tuesday morning, reports arose that crypto-centric Twitter hackers scored their biggest win yet — hijacking Target’s official account, which sports a casual 1. дальше »
2018-11-14 04:25 | |
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South Korea’s lost generation of gamers offer a preview of what’s to come
South Korea is bending under the weight of an epidemic. In the world’s most wired country, it’s not opioids or hallucinogens to blame, but the constant call of a connected society. Estimates vary, but South Korea — home to 51 million people — now has about a million internet-addicted children and teens. дальше »
2018-11-14 01:27 | |
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New Exchange Security Scoring Model Offers Insurance Rates for Coin Holders
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. дальше »
2018-11-13 00:43 | |
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US and Israeli politicians hacked to promote ‘Elon Musk’ cryptocurrency scams
It appears scammers have hijacked yet another batch of verified Twitter accounts to promote fake cryptocurrency giveaway links (often under the disguise of Elon Musk). A verified account belonging to the Australian branch of consulting giant Capgemini has been spotted running malicious giveaway links on Twitter. дальше »
2018-11-12 16:40 | |
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Early Win for Shrem: Judge Unfreezes Assets in Winklevoss Lawsuit
In a short-term win for bitcoin advocate Charlie Shrem, a federal judge has lifted the freeze on Shrem’s financial accounts in an ongoing legal battle against the Winklevoss twins. дальше »
2018-11-10 00:48 | |
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South Korean cryptocurrency startup reportedly pulls a $2.7M exit scam
2018 will certainly go down as the year of the exit scam as yet another initial coin offering (ICO) has disappeared out of thin air – along with millions worth of investors’ cryptocurrency. Blockchain company Pure Bit has seemingly walked off with $2. дальше »
2018-11-9 18:17 | |
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China's Central Bank Wants to Put the Damper Airdrops: Report
The People's Bank of China (PBoC), China's central bank, has its eyes on cryptocurrency companies that run airdrop campaigns in the country. In its most recent financial stability report for 2018, which was published on Friday, November 3, 2018, the bank said there has been a surge in the number of "disguised" Initial Coin Offerings (ICO), including the free distribution of crypto tokens through airdrops, despite its effort to clamp down on their activities. дальше »
2018-11-5 22:04 | |
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China's Central Bank Wants to Put the Damper on Airdrops: Report
The People's Bank of China (PBoC), China's central bank, has its eyes on cryptocurrency companies that run airdrop campaigns in the country. In its most recent financial stability report for 2018, which was published on Friday, November 3, 2018, the bank said there has been a surge in the number of "disguised" Initial Coin Offerings (ICO), including the free distribution of crypto tokens through airdrops, despite its effort to clamp down on their activities. дальше »
2018-11-7 22:04 | |
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Africa Dominates Trade Volume on P2P Bitcoin Exchange Paxful
Paxful Inc. , a peer-to-peer bitcoin exchange, is seeing significant growth in Africa. The U. S. -based company said Africans now accounted for the largest number of people buying and selling cryptocurrency on its platform, with average monthly transactions totaling $64. дальше »
2018-11-2 05:45 | |
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Tron’s TRX Blockchain Transactions Now Outpace BTC, ETH And XRP With Daily Performance
The Tron Mainnet entered the cryptocurrency world at the end of May, and they have been functioning without any problems since they launched the Genesis block soon after. Accounts have continued to accrue since then, now boasting over half a million users, so it should not come as a shock that they have been surpassing […] дальше »
2018-10-28 09:19 | |
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Tether Destroys 500 Million of Its USDT Coin
According to transaction data from Tether’s accounts, it took 500 million USDT permanently out of circulation on Wednesday. Tether has just destroyed 500M USDt from the Tether treasury wallet with the following tx: https://t. дальше »
2018-10-25 19:00 | |
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Twitter’s bot purge led to a 9M drop in users last quarter
Twitter’s just announced its quarterly earnings, in which it revealed its user base has shrunk by nine million monthly users over the last quarter. This is a good thing. That’s because the company’s been purging bots from its platform, a mission it’s been on since July. дальше »
2018-10-25 15:18 | |
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Bitcoin Scammer Arrested In Thailand
The $34 million Bitcoin scam has its prime suspect named Prinya Jaravijit who was arrested in Thailand after returning to the country. Jaravijit is allegedly part of a scam which saw a man from Finland, Aarini Otava Saarimaa scammed out of over 5,500 Bitcoins, this would be worth around $34 million in today’s market. дальше »
2018-10-17 12:00 | |
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With New Exchange Listings and Demand, New Stablecoins See Pegs Broken
Fresh on the market, the industry’s newest batch of stablecoins is having trouble striking a price balance. Amidst news of listings on Huobi and OKEx, two of the industry’s largest exchanges, TrueUSD (TUSD), Gemini USD (GUSD), the Paxos Standard (PAX) and Circle’s USD Coin (USDC) have all risen well above their pegs. дальше »
2018-10-17 01:17 | |
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Crypto Cybercrime Has Tripled Since 2017; Nearly $1 Billion Lost in 2018
Most digital exchanges are unregulated and therefore unqualified to safely process cryptocurrency transactions. They don’t employ necessary know-your-customer (KYC) tactics, and roughly $1 billion in digital asset funds have been stolen since the start of 2018. дальше »
2018-10-13 23:34 | |
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Canadian banking cartel freezes $28M belonging to cryptocurrency exchange
A Canadian banking cartel has allegedly frozen $28 million in customer funds belonging to Canada’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. Vancouver-based exchange desk QuadrigaCX claims the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) locked the money and froze accounts belonging to its payment partner, Costodian, and its owner, Jose Reyes. дальше »
2018-10-9 12:59 | |
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Why Portal, Facebook’s video-chatting device, has a shot at success
Facebook today launched its first hardware products, the Portal and Portal+. A bit like the Amazon Echo Show, they sit somewhere in your home and allow you to talk to your friends and family through the near-universal Facebook Messenger service. дальше »
2018-10-8 18:58 | |
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Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash Used on the Dark Web to Buy Stolen Facebook Accounts
The Independent, a media news site, reported Sept. 29 that Facebook, the world’s largest social media network, discovered another embarrassing hack in mid-September, just a few months after the infamous Cambridge Analytica scandal. дальше »
2018-10-8 17:59 | |
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The free internet makes us the product — we need to stop it
The bad headlines continue to stack up for Facebook this year: from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, to the New York Times report that Facebook gave Apple, Samsung, and other mobile device makers access to its users personal data without permission, to the revelation that the firm routinely gives user information and preferences to several Chinese telecommunications firms, to last week’s security breach in which hackers took control of 50 million user accounts as well as any third-party sites those users logged into via Facebook. дальше »
2018-10-6 19:30 | |
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Stackr: The Dawn of a Digital Asset Savings Solution - [BTC Media Sponsor]
Financial savings have long been the foundation of wealth and asset building. However, we are now in a time when the growing obsolescence of financial institutions has forced certain technologies out of date, created high fees, revealed structural inefficiencies and, ultimately, meant that some standard investment solutions now fail to place consumer needs first. дальше »
2018-10-6 16:37 | |
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In Search of Stability: An Overview of the Budding Stablecoin Ecosystem
Stability. The word seems to be at complete odds with the current nature of the crypto market. With its flagship coin having “died” on hundreds of occasions, volatility and meteoric price swings have come to define cryptocurrencies, as price stability, ever-elusive, is in short supply. дальше »
2018-10-3 19:05 | |
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1.6 million US workers rely on gig apps and websites for income
As part of its monthly labor review for September, the US Department of Labor released a report on workers in the “gig economy,” such as those who worked for Uber, GrubHub, or TaskRabbit. It revealed that this work now accounts for at least 1 percent of total employment in the country. дальше »
2018-10-2 20:31 | |
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Facebook Hacked – What Information Was Compromised?
This Friday the Guardian reported that nearly 50 million users’ accounts were compromised. According to Facebook the breach was discovered on September 25th and patched two days later. However, the vulnerability allowed hackers to gain sensitive information about users’ accounts, such as photos, private conversations, and the ability to log into any other apps using […] The post Facebook Hacked – What Information Was Compromised? appeared first on NullTX. дальше »
2018-10-2 07:41 | |
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It’s Time Facebook Protected User Security with Blockchain Tech
On September 25th, Facebook reported a security issue that affected almost 50 million users. Hopefully, this security breach will drive Facebook management to accelerate its efforts to improve data privacy by incorporating blockchain technology. дальше »
2018-9-30 07:00 | |
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Blockchain’s Report Examines Benefits (and Failures) of Today’s Stablecoins
Stablecoins have garnered serious investor attention over the past few weeks. Unlike bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies, they are digital assets built to lessen price volatility and are often paired against the U. дальше »
2018-9-29 01:06 | |
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Bitcoin Group SE Reports Half-Year Profit Surges 300% to $3.85 Million
German digital currency exchange Bitcoin Group SE reported on Friday a first-half net profit increase of more than 300% to €3. 32 million (~$3. 85 million USD). The company added 86,000 new accounts of people buying and selling cryptocurrency like bitcoin and bitcoin cash in the first six months of 2018. дальше »
2018-9-28 20:30 | |
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Facebook reveals data breach affecting 50 million users
Facebook today announced a data breach occurred on September 25 affecting at least 50 million Facebook accounts. The social network disclosed the breach Friday morning, issuing a statement that said an “attack” on its system led to “the exposure of information” affecting the 50 million users, according to the New York Times. дальше »
2018-9-28 20:09 | |
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Federal Judge Rules Cryptocurrency MBC Is a Commodity
In a landmark case for the cryptocurrency industry, a federal judge has ruled that a cryptocurrency caught in the midst of a lawsuit is a commodity, court documents reveal. дальше »
2018-9-28 23:15 | |
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Circle’s USDC Stablecoin Begins Trading
Boston-based cryptocurrency finance firm Circle has just joined the multitudes of other crypto exchange platforms now issuing and trading their own stablecoins. As of September 26, 2018, dollar-pegged USDC is now trading on Poloniex, the crypto-to-crypto exchange Circle acquired in February 2018, and on Circle Trade, the company’s over-the-counter (OTC) platform. дальше »
2018-9-27 20:50 | |
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TTC Protocol Partners with the White Hat Hacker Community Hacken, to Improve its Cybersecurity
In 2016, Yahoo! announced a massive data breach which affected around 500 million user accounts. The post TTC Protocol Partners with the White Hat Hacker Community Hacken, to Improve its Cybersecurity appeared first on CoinSpeaker. дальше »
2018-9-22 00:53 | |
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