US DISA preps for the ‘terabyte of death’

US DISA preps for the ‘terabyte of death’

When Lt. Gen. Alan Lynn retires as director of the Defense Information Systems Agency next month, he’ll leave behind a tangle of threats to the agency’s networks and a host of cutting-edge commercial technologies to offset them. Naturally, those networks are a target for attackers and DISA leaders such as Lynn are anticipating a worst…

Blockwart – Germany: 32 Journalisten, an denen 2018 kein Startup vorbeikommt

Blockwart – Germany: 32 Journalisten, an denen 2018 kein Startup vorbeikommt

Blockwart Auf Grundlage einer internen Auswertung erstellen wir seit 2010 für deutsche-startups.de eine Liste mit Redakteuren, die sich auf die Trends und Neuigkeiten der Start-up-Szene spezialisiert haben. Hier ist die Liste mit Journalisten, an denen 2018 kein Startup vorbeikommt. Wer mit seinem Unternehmen schnellstmöglich Bekanntheit erlangen möchte, benötigt neben einem innovativen Produkt auch eine gut…

Blockwart – Watch Whom You Tell about Your Bitcoin Holdings: Russian Blogger Who ‘Boasted’ About Crypto Wealth Beaten and Robbed For $425k in Leningrad Oblast

Blockwart – Watch Whom You Tell about Your Bitcoin Holdings: Russian Blogger Who ‘Boasted’ About Crypto Wealth Beaten and Robbed For $425k in Leningrad Oblast

Blockwart A Russian cryptocurrency investor and blogger known online as Pavel Nyashin was attacked and robbed in his home in Leningrad Oblast the night of Jan. 14. The assailants stole funds worth 24 mln rubles ($425,000), according to local media. Nyashin was tied and beaten while a group of masked assailants stole a safe containing…

Blockwart: Bitcoin Drug Money Laundering Is Highly Centralized

Blockwart: Bitcoin Drug Money Laundering Is Highly Centralized

Blockwart   A joint report by Center on Sanctions & Illicit Finance and Elliptic, a cryptocurrency forensics firm, has indicated that Bitcoin laundering for illicit drug activity is a highly centralized process. The report’s authors, Yaya Fanusi and Tom Robinson, indicate that much of illicit Bitcoin is laundered through mixers, saying: “Mixers have consistently processed…

Jonas Schnelli Wants You to Run a Bitcoin Full Node

Jonas Schnelli Wants You to Run a Bitcoin Full Node

200 gigabytes. That’s the maximum load some personal laptops will store. It’s also roughly the amount of space the bitcoin blockchain currently requires. These bloating storage requirements are a longstanding problem for the community’s efforts to keep bitcoin decentralized. But Bitcoin Core contributor and maintainer Jonas Schnelli has spent the past few years trying to…

Goodbye ICOs, Hello TAOs? How Tokens Will Change in 2018

Goodbye ICOs, Hello TAOs? How Tokens Will Change in 2018

TAO = Tokenized Asset Offering   As we enter 2018, it appears that blockchain’s contribution to capital formation has only begun. An unfortunate influx of both naive and bad actors begs for regulatory scrutiny, obscuring the intentions of ethical market participants anxious to operate within an informed set of dynamic guidelines and eventual laws. In…

Smart Contracts Proposal MAST Inches Closer to Bitcoin’s Code

Smart Contracts Proposal MAST Inches Closer to Bitcoin’s Code

A long-standing proposal to bring “smarter” smart contracts to bitcoin’s main net has just taken one step closer to implementation. Developers have submitted a pull request for Merkelized Abstract Syntax Trees (MAST), marking the first time this smart contracts proposal has been the subject of a pull request seeking its integration into bitcoin’s code. The…

How 30-day prototyping could solve the US Army’s cyber-buying woes

How 30-day prototyping could solve the US Army’s cyber-buying woes

The idea of buying technology faster, better and more cost-efficiently isn’t new in the government, but the Army believes it can improve its cyber-specific acquisition. In the Army’s program executive office for enterprise information systems, officials in the defense cyber operations program are following a new acquisition strategy, one that takes advantage of a consortium-based…

Schnorr Signatures Could Help Solve Bitcoin’s Scalability Issue

Schnorr Signatures Could Help Solve Bitcoin’s Scalability Issue

The Schnorr signatures algorithm promises to help to address one of the most pressing problems affecting Bitcoin today: scalability. Additionally, Schnorr signatures could help protect Bitcoin from certain types of spam attacks. An array of new technologies and schemes are being proposed that could help address Bitcoin’s scalability problem, such as Segwit, Lightning Network, and…

Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities: Easy-to-Read Description of One of the Worst Security Leaks – All Intel CPUs Since 1995 Affected

Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities: Easy-to-Read Description of One of the Worst Security Leaks – All Intel CPUs Since 1995 Affected

A background on the vulnerabilities: an easy-to-read description of what they are and the immediate and longer-term effects that Meltdown and Spectre will have on the services and software that we rely on. And why having a really secure platform for the 1st time ever (i.e. PoW Blockchain) is such a big deal. — TJACK…

WiFi mesh networks can detect your breathing

WiFi mesh networks can detect your breathing

In the world of indoor security systems, motion detection usually relies on cameras or at least dedicated sensors. Both types of solution add to hardware plus installation costs, not to mention that not everyone is comfortable with having cameras pointing at them all the time. Origin Wireless, on the other hand, found a way to…

Blockchain Mining Can Power Neuroscience, Says Matrix Chief AI Scientist

Blockchain Mining Can Power Neuroscience, Says Matrix Chief AI Scientist

At this year’s BlockShow Asia, Yangdong Deng, chief AI scientist of Blockchain startup Matrix, explained how inserting Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the Blockchain ecosystem would make it possible to use Bitcoin mining computational power for scientific innovation. According to Deng, the current computing power being used in Bitcoin mining operations is 8.23×10²² FLOPS floating point…

“Buy Smarter and Faster”: Russia is pushing the [US] Army to move faster on electronic warfare

“Buy Smarter and Faster”: Russia is pushing the [US] Army to move faster on electronic warfare

When Army leaders in Europe needed advanced electronic warfare capabilities, they decided they couldn’t wait for years under the current trajectory of the Army’s official program schedule. Instead, they asked the service to develop a faster solution, one that’s now known as Raven Claw 1 and incorporates facets of the existing program called Electronic Warfare…