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As the appeal of cryptocurrency has grown, so has the opportunity for scammers to part naive investors from their money. 2019 has been no exception, with cryptocurrency and blockchain forensics company Ciphertrace dubbing it “the year of the exit scam.” Exit scams are not a new phenomenon, with a 2018 report conducted by Statis Group…
The development of R3’s enterprise blockchain platform Corda is being plagued by fundamental disagreements over its core vision, causing frustration and delay. The claim was made in a report from FT Alphaville on Aug. 22, citing numerous insider sources. “Corda maximalists” versus interoperability proponents Sources close to R3 reportedly allege that there is a gulf…
[the article interchanges ‘ASIC’ and ‘Mining Rig’ (the toy boxes) arbitrarily] Bitcoin (BTC) mining giant Bitmain will increase its capacity by 50% in the next six months on the back of a giant hardware order, a source close to the deal has said. Bitmain eyes 50% capacity increase As reported by Chinese social media network…
A decade ago, the thought of self-driving cars was far from reality, but with 2020 looming large, massive strides have been made in the field of autonomous vehicles. Meanwhile, in the space of a decade, Bitcoin has thrust cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology into the mainstream consciousness. The latter has become a tool that is quickly…
Last week, Big Four firm Deloitte unveiled a mobile platform designed to host blockchain networks on a small scale for demonstration purposes. The product is “based on client interest in understanding blockchain capabilities in live interactions,” as per the press release. With this move, the Big Four companies — comprised of Deloitte, PwC, Ernst &…
More than one billion mobile users are at risk from a SIM card flaw being currently exploited by threat actors, researchers warn. A vulnerability discovered in mobile SIM cards is being actively exploited to track phone owners’ locations, intercept calls and more – all merely by sending an SMS message to victims, researchers say. Researchers…
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Large portions of APT3’s remote code-execution package were likely reverse-engineered from prior attack artifacts. The advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as APT3, which researchers across the board link to the Chinese government, has built a full in-house battery of exploits and cybertools collectively dubbed “UPSynergy.” An analysis of the toolkit has uncovered a geopolitical…
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Patrick Kiley von der IT-Sicherheitsfirma Rapid7 Die US-Luftwaffe karrte einen F35-Simulator zur DEF CON, BMW hielt gemeinsam mit chinesischen Security-Forschern einen Vortrag auf der Black Hat. Andere Organisationen und Unternehmen fremdelten noch. “Hi, ich bin Will. Ich arbeite für die US Air Force“. Der bebrillte Mann im 80er-Jahre-Star-Wars-T-Shirt stand inmitten einer Traube aus Hackern im…
The heist is just a preview of how unprepared we are for AI-powered cybercrime. In what may be the world’s first AI-powered heist, synthetic audio was used to imitate a chief executive’s voice and trick his subordinate into transferring over $240,000 into a secret account, The Wall Street Journal reported last week. The company’s insurer,…
5. September 2019 Von Heinz-Roger Dohms Paukenschlag in der deutschen Bankenbranche: Das Vergleichsportal Check24, das Finanzprodukte in signifikant zweistelliger Milliardenhöhe jährlich vermittelt, hat bei der Bafin einen Antrag auf Erteilung einer Vollbank-Lizenz* gestellt. Entsprechende Exklusiv-Informationen von Finanz-Szene.de bestätigte das Unternehmen gestern auf Anfrage: „Wir befinden uns aktuell im Prüfprozess und hoffen, die Lizenz bis nächstes…
GAFA, Microsoft, Tencent, Alibaba. Laut dem erstmals erstellten „Digital Economy Report 2019“ der Uno dominieren sieben Plattformen aus den USA und China den weltweiten Markt, darunter Microsoft, Amazon und Alibaba. Die weltweite Digitalwirtschaft wird von sieben Internet- und Tech-Konzernen aus den USA und China sowie deren Plattformen dominiert. Das hat der erstmals erstellte „Digital Economy…
von Mathias Brandt on 05.09.2019 Berlin wird laut einer Erhebung von Comparitech durch fast 40.000 Kameras überwacht – das sind etwa 11,2 Kameras pro 1.000 Einwohner. Damit liegt die Bundeshauptstadt auf Platz 2 im Ranking der bestüberwachten Städte Europas; weltweit liegt Deutschlands größte Stadt auf Platz 19. Im Vergleich mit London hat Berlin indes noch reichlich…
von Frauke Suhr am 05.09.2019 Krebsforschung, Fleischersatzprodukte und Smart-Home-Technologien zählen zu den großen Entwicklungen unserer Zeit. Doch welche Länder sind weltweit führend bei Forschung und Entwicklung? Ein aktuelles Bloomberg-Ranking zeigt die innovativsten Länder nach Indexwert. Darin steht Deutschland auf dem zweiten Platz. In dem Ranking wurden Faktoren wie die Forschungs- und Entwicklungsausgaben, die Anzahl der inländischen…
Tony Fadell started Nest in 2010, after leading the engineering team that created the iPod and playing a crucial role in the development of the iPhone. Like many entrepreneurs, he was then over 40. Aug. 29, 2019 It took an entrepreneur to reimagine the mundane home thermostat as an object of beauty — and then…
Um ein iPhone zu infizieren, genügte es, eine manipulierte Webseite zu besuchen. Freitag, 30. August 2019 Unbemerkt beim Surfen Googles Sicherheitsforscher finden heraus, dass iPhones jahrelang über manipulierte Webseiten gehackt und ausspioniert werden konnten. Die Angreifer hatten dabei praktisch volle Kontrolle über die Geräte und konnten nach Belieben Dateien, Fotos, Chats oder Zugangsdaten abgreifen. Googles…
All-time revenue for Bitcoin (BTC) miners has topped $14 billion, according to fresh data from Coin Metrics. As Yahoo! Finance reported on Aug. 30, despite the massive increase in the network’s hash rate — a factor that depresses the profitability of mining — there’s still more money in the game for miners than ever before. …
Major Computer Chip Maker Faces Infringement Lawsuits From Competitor TSMC, the world’s largest independent semiconductor foundry and chip supplier for Bitmain, is facing multiple lawsuits from its competitor GlobalFoundries (GF). Alleged patent infringement GF, the second biggest semiconductor foundry by sales after TSMC, filed several lawsuits in the United States and Germany, accusing Taiwanese TSMC…
TSMC is expanding capacity for Bitmain’s urgent order for wafers. Bitmain Technologies, the designer of chips used in cryptocurrency mining has placed a large order of 30,000 “7nm” wafers from TSMC. TSMC has never commented on its clients or orders. It is reported that that due to the urgent order of Bitmain, TSMC decided to expand…
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