Mastercard Using Thumbprints Instead of PINs
Fingerprints have long been used in biometric national IDs and have seen wide use in police investigative work since the late 1800’s and still is today. We may now …
Bitcoin Ransomware Education – Schwerer
April 24, 2017
Education, Malware, Ransomware
It does not happen all that often security researchers come across a new type of bitcoin ransomware that can easily be decrypted. Schwerer, a recently discovered type of malware, …
What is Fedcoin?
Cryptocurrency enthusiasts were not surprised to find out various central banks and governments want to issue their own digital currency in the future. In the United States, this initiative …
AES-NI Ransomware may be Using Recently Disclosed NSA Exploits
Rumors are circulating on the internet regarding quite a recent type of ransomware making use of the Shadow Brokers’ exploits. Albeit security researchers are not entirely certain these claims …
Brickerbot Developer Claims he Bricked Over 2 Million IoT Devices so far
Not too long ago, we talked on this site about Brickerbot, a new type of malware targeting Internet of Things devices. Although it was a bit unclear at that …
IoT Malware Strains Mirai and Hajime Compete Over Resources
Internet of Things malware is nothing new under the sun these days. Most companies and consumers are well aware of the Mirai botnet, which has been terrorizing IoT devices …
What is the Willy Bitcoin Trading bot?
When the infamous Mt. Gox exchange was on the verge of collapsing, there was a lot of discussion regarding the so-called Willy trading bot. Although there have been many …
Bitcoin Addrindex vs Bitcoin Knots
April 23, 2017
Comparison
Most cryptocurrency enthusiasts are well aware of how there are multiple forks of Bitcoin Core’s branch of development. In fact, we recently highlighted three of such concepts, all of …
4 Companies Providing Bitcoin Point-of-sale Terminal Payments to Store Owners
April 23, 2017
Featured
One of the primary questions retailers and merchants have is how they can accept bitcoin payments at their brick-and-mortar location. While there are plenty of applications out there that …