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Canaan Creative, the world’s second largest Bitcoin (BTC) mining hardware manufacturer, has launched what it claims is the “first ever” BTC mining television set, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported August 2. Dubbed “AvalonMiner Inside,” the appliance has a processing power of 2.8 trillion hashes per second, and is reportedly powered by artificial intelligence…
How does one go from being root on the host to gaining access to data in a Virtual Machine running with full disk encryption. This is the exact question that arose from an internal discussion we had at Appsecco to which we wanted answers. I came across many ways to the break full disk encryption,…
55% of ad expenses go to intermediaries, only 45% to publishers. Ad fraud reportedly cost the U.S. advertising industry about $6.5 billion in 2017. Advertising lacks the transparency of data and process. Blockchain offers the transparency of data and process. Advertisers and brands are increasingly losing patience with ad agencies and other players over the…
Germany’s second-largest stock exchange is developing an ICO platform, it announced on Thursday. Boerse Stuttgart expects to roll out the platform as part of larger “end-to-end infrastructure” for “digital assets” it is currently developing, and says the ICO platform will allow token issuers to conduct token sales with “standardized and transparent processes.” It will also…
Reddit.com today disclosed that a data breach exposed some internal data, as well as email addresses and passwords for some Reddit users. As Web site breaches go, this one doesn’t seem too severe. What’s interesting about the incident is that it showcases once again why relying on mobile text messages (SMS) for two-factor authentication (2FA)…
With $1.7 billion in the bank following its initial coin offering (ICO), Telegram has released its first crypto-friendly feature – but security researchers are skeptical. As detailed in a blog post published today, Virgil Security, a U.S.-based startup, has identified several weaknesses in the new identity verification app, called Passport. While the company praised Telegram…
https://bgpstream.com/event/144055 Iran Telecommunication Company AS58224 hijacked several more specific prefixes for Telegram Messenger @telegram: the fact that these more specific prefixes exist in their network indicates these are treated ‘special’ (i.e. deliberate): https://bgpstream.com/ scroll down to 2018-07-30 @ 6:28 Replay: At 06:28:25 UTC Iran Telecommunication Company AS58224, hijacked several more specific prefixes…
“Those who failed to translate the headlines into reality will write off their investments and give up” About 90 percent of currently active U.S. companies’ blockchain initiatives will ultimately be abandoned. This statistic comes from a study by Forrester Research, cited by Bloomberg in an article July 31. The U.S. market research firm Forrester…
Global Internet connectivity to Star JV. The orange denotes the China Unicom connection and blue the TransTeleCom. The graphic shows the Russian connection coming online around 0900 UTC, a short period of instability then a stable connection with two networks. (Dyn Research) A major Russian telecommunications company appears to have begun providing an Internet…
There are early adopters, then there are early early adopters. Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, the first coder to work alongside bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto, Martti ‘Sirius’ Malmi, is joining a team of developers launching a new cryptocurrency called AXE. The project, which is combining Malmi’s Identifi online reputation system with decentralized database system GUN, is…
Bitmain Plans Overseas IPO, Earned $1 Billion in Net Profit in Q1, Sources Report Jihan Wu, the co-CEO of crypto mining hardware giant Bitmain, is reportedly planning to conduct an overseas initial private offering (IPO), Fortune’s crypto-focused section The Ledger reports July 30. Bloomberg had reported in June that Wu was “open” to holding an…
Commonwealth Bank of Australia Ships 17 Tons of Almonds to Europe With Blockchain The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has announced the completion of a successful trade using its new blockchain platform, according to its July 30 press release. In a collaborative effort involving five domestic and international “supply chain leaders,” the bank used blockchain…
In the early July, it was reported that Bleeping Computer detected suspicious activity targeted at defrauding 2.3 million Bitcoin wallets, which they found to be under threat of being hacked. The attackers used malware — known as “clipboard hijackers” — which operates in the clipboard and can potentially replace the copied wallet address with one…
The crypto and blockchain industry’s go-to encrypted messenger app Telegram has released a personal identification authorization tool, according to an official statement published July 26. The tool, dubbed Telegram Passport, reportedly encrypts a user’s personal ID information and let’s users securely share their ID data with third parties, which the Telegram post elaborates on as…
SHRIMP program: short for SHort-Range Independent Microrobotic Platforms This post is also available in: עברית (Hebrew) Microrobots have been studied by the U.S. military for years, but they tend to be simple machines with limited intelligence. Recently, however, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launched a new initiative to improve microrobots. The SHRIMP…
Canada-based DMG Blockchain Solutions has launched the installation of an 85-megawatt substation for crypto mining expansion, according to an official statement July 26. The DMG crypto mining operation will be implemented on an industrial scale with direct support from the local government and electricity providers. DMG Blockchain Solutions is a multi-sector crypto and blockchain firm…
This follows the $23m BNT hack on Bancor earlier in July – the same Bancor which raised $153 in an ICO in June 2017. Below: Intro into the Bancor network protocol Intro in Smartcontracts on Ethereum Initial coin offering support platform KickICO lost $7.7 million in KICK tokens in a hack on Thursday, the…
The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has launched enforcement proceedings against crypto mining firm Envion AG over its potentially unauthorized token sale, according to a FINMA press release today, July 26. Swiss-based Envion AG is an off-grid mining company that claims to use decentralized, clean energy to power its mobile mining units, and completed…
Crypto security startup BitGo’s latest technology – “predictive UTXO management” – sounds technical, but it’s got an end goal that everyone will understand: cutting crypto fees. Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, BitGo is the first mainstream crypto company adopting a spin on “coin selection,” a scaling technology that’s been one of many touted as a way to…
“Cambrian explosion” of disparate currencies Most of these early blockchain innovators just took the original cryptocurrency’s source code, made their preferred changes, and launched their alternative versions as distinct cryptocurrencies; it was as if they’d modified the DNA of an existing species to create a new, reproductively isolated branch of the family tree. What…
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