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Vnx Exchange Set To Unlock Liquidity For Venture Capital Industry, Announces New Board Member.

VNX Exchange has announced the development of a decentralized marketplace and trading platform, where investors and accelerators can buy and sell tokenized investment portfolios of venture capital funds via its press release. The exchange also added Dominique Valschaerts to its Board of Directors. Valschaerts is the former CEO of the Brussels Stock Exchange and former… Continue reading Vnx Exchange Set To Unlock Liquidity For Venture Capital Industry, Announces New Board Member.

Is Craig Wright About To Kill Bitcoin Cash?

Let me get one thing out of the way at the start of this article. Bitcoin Cash isn’t going to literally die. That is all but impossible. Paycoin, the scam coin created by disgraced and convicted scammer Josh Garza is still technically alive. That coin had secret stakers that gave holders more than 500% compounding… Continue reading Is Craig Wright About To Kill Bitcoin Cash?

SonarSnoop attack can steal smartphone unlock patterns

SonarSnoop technique transforms smartphones into mini sonar systems to track a user’s finger across the screen and steal phone unlock patterns.   3rd September, 2018 By Catalin Cimpanu   Academics from universities in Sweden and the UK have come up with a new technique that turns a smartphone’s built-in speaker and microphone into a crude… Continue reading SonarSnoop attack can steal smartphone unlock patterns

DraftKings rides to court, asks to unmask 10 DDoS suspects

Fantasy sports outfit looks to hunt down group that bombarded its site   By Shaun Nichols 31 Aug 2018     A US sports gaming company is asking permission to unmask 10 people it believes were behind a massive DDoS attack on its website earlier this month.   DraftKings, based out of Boston, MA, has filed [PDF]… Continue reading DraftKings rides to court, asks to unmask 10 DDoS suspects

1,000 Cryptocurrency POS Terminals to be Distributed in Brazil

Indonesian point-of-sale (POS) terminal maker Pundi X Labs (Pundi X) has struck a distribution deal with Brazilian company BitCapital to have 1,000 of its XPOS device distributed in retail outlets across the South American country, the startup said earlier this week.  The partnership, formed just a few weeks after the establishment of Pundi X’s South… Continue reading 1,000 Cryptocurrency POS Terminals to be Distributed in Brazil

A Former Mine in Norway is Providing a Sustainable Alternative for Bitcoin

Where miners once stood to mine olivine, computer equipment has now taken centre stage. Located in the fjords of Norway is a former olivine mineral mine that began its operations in the late 1970s. Fast-forward to the 21st century and that mine has been converted into an underground data centre for something different: Bitcoin mining… Continue reading A Former Mine in Norway is Providing a Sustainable Alternative for Bitcoin

Hacking The Hacker. Stopping a big botnet targeting USA, Canada and Italy

August 31, 2018  By Pierluigi Paganini   Today I’d like to share a full path analysis including a KickBack attack which took me to gain full access to an entire Ursniff/Gozi botnet. In other words:  from a simple “Malware Sample” to “Pwn the Attacker Infrastructure”.   NB: Federal Police have already been alerted on such a topic… Continue reading Hacking The Hacker. Stopping a big botnet targeting USA, Canada and Italy