by dianak | Jun 11, 2018 | Security
Cryptocurrency prices are down in the wake of the recent Coinrail hack — it’s worth a read, but in a dance we’ve all been through before, Coinrail announced that they were the victim of a hack whereby the bad guys made off with about 30% of their...
by dianak | Jun 7, 2018 | Security
Did you see that ZenCash was hit with a 51% attack the other day? It’s true; they’re the most recent to join the club of currencies that have been impacted by someone controlling a majority of the hashrate. For the time this is the case, they can do...
by dianak | Jun 5, 2018 | Security
There’s been a bunch of interest out there on the wild, wild, world of web about election security. For example, today we have this article, that says 14 states have requested funding from congress to shore up the security of their elections… and this...
by dianak | May 31, 2018 | Security
Last year around this time, I wrote a thing about Russia Foreign Minister Andrey Krutskikh and his “cyber atomic bomb.” I’ll quote it again in case you don’t feel like going back and reading the original post. He said this at a 2016...
by dianak | May 31, 2018 | Security
So this morning I had an mail exchange with Julian Goldie over at King Passive (Cryptocurrency blog/resources). Aside from seeming like a super nice guy — which you can tell straightaway both from interacting with him personally but also from his site —...