What is the Mining Difficulty?
Cryptocurrency enthusiasts will often hear how miners have to provide more powerful hardware to keep up with the mining difficulty. To some people, this may sound strange, as the …
Category: Education
What is a BIP?
People who have been paying close attention to the bitcoin ecosystem may have noticed developers often talk about a “BIP”. However, most people have no idea what this abbreviation …
What Is Spray-on Memory?
The world of technology continues to evolve at an accelerated pace. As scientists and technology engineers look for new data storage solutions, it appears Duke University students may have …
Bitcoin Ransomware Education – GX40
April 11, 2017
Education, Ransomware
Crypto ransomware remains one of the most booming cybercrime sectors in the world today. Late last week, researchers came across a new type of malware known as GX40 ransomware. …
What is Shadow IT?
Most people are well aware of how cybercriminals are operating these days. However, it appears the problems are a lot bigger than most experts give it credit for. A …
What is a Botnet?
The ongoing war between malicious hackers and technology security specialists has been waging for as long as the Internet has been widely used. One tool in the arsenal is …
What is ASICBOOST?
There has been quite a lot of controversy regarding Bitmain’s ASICBOOST technology over the past few days. This technology allows the company to use a flaw in the bitcoin mining …
What is BrickerBot?
It was only a matter of time until a new type of malware would target Internet of Things devices. BrickerBot, as this new threat is called, is capable of …
What Is FlexTrans?
There are a ton of interesting discussions taking place in the bitcoin industry at any given moment. One of the many bitcoin scaling solutions goes by the name of …