Category: Security
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Bounty Hunt Gone Wrong: ‘Unhackable’ Wallet Bitfi Denies It Has Been Hacked
Here’s why McAfee’s Bitfi wallet isn’t as “unhackable” as it thought it was
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Black Hat Demo to Reveal ‘White Rabbit’ Crypto-Transaction Surveillance Tool
This week in Las Vegas there are two well-known events taking place dedicated to information security and the global hacking counterculture — Black Hat Arsenal and Defcon 2018. During the conference festivities, there will be a bunch of demonstrations showcasing all kinds of hacker tools, security services, and engineering studies. Two developers from the intelligence…
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Experts Question the Security of Telegram’s New Passport Service
Security experts have called the integrity of Telegram Passport into question. The identity scheme, which launched last week, provides a KYC service for ICO applicants, with personal documents protected by end-to-end encryption. Telegram’s decision to roll its own cryptography, however, has seen the communications giant come in for criticism. Also read: Bitcoiners Hope to Have a…
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Decentralized E-Commerce Marketplace Vows to Offer Shopping Protection and Data Security
A blockchain-based e-commerce marketplace claims it is going to decrease costs for merchants by up to 40 percent #SPONSORED
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Research: Telegram Passport Is Vulnerable to Brute Force Attacks
Recent research by Virgil Security, Inc. claims that Telegram Passport’s password-hardening algorithms do not completely prevent brute force attacks
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Why Tokenization Is Still a Chimera: Expert Take
Let’s talk about on-chain tokenization, off-chain tokenization and how we should use them.
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Bitprim Launches Keoken — A Token and Smart Contract Platform for BCH
Over the past few months, many Bitcoin Cash (BCH) proponents have been discussing ideas such as representative tokens and smart contracts powered by the BCH network. Further, a few well-known organizations like Bitmain, Cryptonize.it and other BCH developers have introduced their own tokenization ideas. Now the firm Bitprim has announced the launch of a new…