What is the Bitcoin Mempool?
The bitcoin mempool is a collection of all transactions waiting to receive a network confirmation. Every time a bitcoin transaction is broadcasted to the network, it takes an average …
Android Users Face a new Ransomware Threat
January 26, 2017
News, Security, Technology
A new malicious application has been discovered in the Google Play Store. The application in question contains a ransomware strain that has infected at least one user so far. …
China Intends to Continue its Inspections on Bitcoin Companies, Results So Far
January 25, 2017
Bitcoin
Inspections on Chinese bitcoin exchanges conducted by the People’s Bank of China led to significant changes in the global bitcoin trading market. In contrary to the expectations of many …
Russian Government Arrests Executive of Kaspersky Cybersecurity Firm
January 25, 2017
Security, Speculation
In December of 2016, local publication Kommersant revealed that leading cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab’s Head of the Computer Incidents Investigation Team Ruslan Stoyanov was arrested alongside Sergei Mikhailov, senior …
5 AI Solutions Showing Signs of Racism
January 25, 2017
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Several artificial intelligence projects have been created over the past few years, most of which still had some kinks to work out. For some reason, multiple AI solutions showed …
Lightning Creator: Why Segwit is a Real Blocksize Increase Solution
In an online bitcoin community, Thaddeus Dryja, the co-author of Lightning, explained how he realized Segregated Witness (Segwit) is an actual block size increase for the bitcoin network. Over …
Top 3 OneCoin Lies
January 25, 2017
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Over the past few years, a lot of people have made a strategic investment in a “cryptocurrency” called OneCoin. The people operating this scam claim OneCoin is far superior …
Enterprise-Level WebEx Chrome Plugin Users Vulnerable to Drive-by Attacks
Users of the Google Chrome browser should update the commonly used WebEx plugin. This particular type of code is used for the Cisco Systems WebEx service, yet contains a …
Top 5 Brute Force Attacks
Password hacking has been around for quite some time. In fact, one could argue most of the tools and methods used to crack passwords have not changed all that …