E-sports to pay $1M to settle covert Bitcoin mining complaint
The New Jersey attorney general’s office announced today that on-line video gaming company E-Sports Entertainment, LLC, has entered into a $1 million settlement that …
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Chinese bitcoin exchange vanishes along with $4.1m in bitcoins
Another bitcoin exchange has shut down, taking approximately $4.1 million worth of its clients’ bitcoins with it and, according to CoinDesk, foul play from its operator …
Bitcoin wallet service hacked, 4,100 Bitcoins stolen
A daring hack and heist targeting online Bitcoin wallet service Inputs.io has resulted in the theft of 4,100 Bitcoins (currently over $1.3 million) and has left some of the …
What CISOs must learn from Bitcoin and a research team at Georgia Tech
It has been an eventful time in the mobile world with two recent breaking stories revealing vulnerabilities in the security infrastructure for Android and iOS respectively. …
Google delivers patch for Android SecureRandom implementation
An Android security engineer has again confirmed the existence of the vulnerability that made the most popular Bitcoin wallet apps for the platform open to attack, and offered …
Android security flaw puts Bitcoin users at risk
The Bitcoin Foundation has issued a security advisory warning users that have generated their Bitcoin wallet with an Android app that their Bitcoins can be easily stolen. The …
Ponzi scheme involving Bitcoin exposed
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged man and his company with defrauding investors in a Ponzi scheme involving Bitcoin, a virtual currency traded on online exchanges …
Litecoin-stealing Trojan found
Bitcoin is the most popular, but not the only crypto currency out there. As interest in and use of other ones rises, malware that tries to steal particular types of currencies …
Bitcoin Foundation hit with cease and desist order
The Bitcoin Foundation has received a cease and desist letter from the California Department of Financial Institutions, saying that they have been informed that the …
Potential privacy problems for companies accepting Bitcoins
Businesses accepting Bitcoin payments might want to consider the privacy implications that such an option creates for its customers and for themselves. As you may or may not …
A primer on Bitcoin risks and threats
Bitcoin is a digital currency whose creation and transfer is based on an open source cryptographic protocol. There are many benefits to using it (no transaction fees, …
World’s largest bitcoin exchange under DDoS attack
Mt.Gox, the world’s largest bitcoin exchange, has been downed earlier today by what appears to be a “strong DDoS attack”. “We are working hard to …