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How to Recover a Lost Dogechain.info Wallet Password and Unblock 2FA – KeychainX Expert Explains
1.11.2021
Have you lost the password for a Dogechain.info wallet or have it locked behind 2FA and fear you will never get to hold your precious coins ever again? Good news, KeychainX wrote a handy guide on how to recover such wallets. This is a trusted service provider that specializes in recovering lost...
The Options for Password Revealing Inputs
6.10.2021
In HTML, there is a very clear input type for dealing with passwords:
<input type="password"
If you use that, you get the obfuscated bullet-points when you type into it, like:
••••••••
That’s the web trying to help with security. If …
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How to Recover a Lost Blockchain Wallet Password – KeychainX Expert Explains
17.9.2021
There is no greater fear for cryptocurrency investors than one day forgetting the password to their blockchain wallets, seeing how their own money is right in their hands but still locked away forever from them. If this has happened to you, however, don’t lose hope. There are ways to recover...
Young South African Engineer Rues Deleting Computer File Containing Keys to 20 BTC
18.8.2021
A young South African electronics engineer has rued his decision to delete a text document containing the keys and password to a crypto wallet that held some 20 bitcoins. According to the engineer, the lost coins had been mined more than ten years ago using a modified personal computer that...
Nintendo's Parent Guide To Securing Credit Cards From Kids
13.8.2021
If you’re a parent, you know. Children can rack up in-game charges if you’re not careful. Not every mom or dad is, or even knows to be, so Nintendo is here to help.Read more
Survey Shows 40% of US Crypto Owners Forget Their Password, 20% Write Passwords on Paper
4.8.2021
According to a recent study on crypto asset storage and passwords, a survey that polled over 1,000 digital currency owners shows 39.7% have forgotten their passwords. The study produced by cryptovantage.com indicates that users unable to recover their passwords lost an average of $2,134. Survey...
Links on Accessibility
7.6.2021
Show/Hide password accessibility and password hints tutorial — Nicolas Steenhout goes deep on <input type="password"> accessibility. For one thing, being able to toggle it to type="text" should be possible, while announcing, politely, the change. But also, put the password hints...
Use Touch ID for sudo on Mac
1.3.2021
The landscape of security is changing quite a bit. We’ve gone from basic username and password to 2FA, facial recognition, fingerprint recognition, and so on. Hell, my Mac unlocks simply when I have my Apple Watch near by. In the end, I probably use the Mac fingerprint key the most....
BTC 1,700 In Limbo As Fraudster Won’t Give The Password To Prosecutors
8.2.2021
German public prosecutor's office has seized almost BTC 1,800 (USD 70m) from a man sentenced to prison for fraud, but they claim they cannot access the majority of the cryptocurrency since the man has refused to provide them with a password. The crypto was seized in 2013, and since then, its value...
Hacker Refuses to Hand Police Password for Seized Wallet With $6.5M in Bitcoin
5.2.2021
Throughout a two-year prison term, the man repeatedly refused to give wallet access to German authorities
Programmer has two password guesses left before losing $266M in Bitcoin
14.1.2021
The perils of inaccessible digital wealth — potentially lost forever — are being all the more keenly felt during the 2021 bull market
Ex-Ripple CTO Can’t Remember Password to Access $240M in Bitcoin
13.1.2021
Just call it Schrödinger's bitcoin
Bitcoiner Loses Password to 7,002 Bitcoins Worth $240 Million
13.1.2021
A bitcoiner has shared his story of how he lost access to his 7,002 bitcoins, worth about $240 million at the current price. He has lost the piece of paper on which he wrote his password and now has two guesses left before his device seizes up and encrypts its contents forever. 7,002 Bitcoins Worth...
Crypto User Loses Over $100K in Bitcoin While Transferring His Wallet
9.1.2021
A bitcoin user has shared his story of how he lost more than $100,000 in BTC during a wallet transfer. The bitcoiner attempted to transfer a wallet to a new computer without making sure that he had access to the encryption passwords tied to his private key storage. Password Manager Didn’t...
How to Prevent Pasting into an Input
19.10.2020
Every once in a while I get to a website that doesn’t allow me to paste into a form input. In most cases it’s something to do with login credentials (username and or password) and auth codes. So how are they preventing me from pasting information? It’s as easy as you’d...
Let’s Create Our Own Authentication API with Nodejs and GraphQL
13.10.2020
Authentication is one of the most challenging tasks for developers just starting with GraphQL. There are a lot of technical considerations, including what ORM would be easy to set up, how to generate secure tokens and hash passwords, and even what HTTP library to use and how to use it. 
In...
The $700 Million Wallet Crack: Bitcoin’s 7th Largest Address Is Under Constant Attack
11.9.2020
During the last two years, hackers have been trying to crack the seventh-largest bitcoin wallet, an address that holds 69,370 BTC or $712 million using today’s exchange rate. According to the CTO of the cybercrime intelligence firm, Hudson Rock, the wallet is being publicized on hacking...
Judge Dismisses $200M Damages Claim in SIM-Swap Crypto Lawsuit Against AT&T
11.9.2020
A California judge has dismissed the $200 million in damages claim against the telecom giant AT&T for alleged negligence and fraud. The judge still ruled the telecom company had to answer the lawsuit by Michael Terpin for enabling the theft of $24 million worth of his cryptocurrency after...
Sign Into Websites Using Your Crypto Wallet Instead of a Password
7.5.2020
You can now sign into websites using public keys derived from your crypto wallet — an order of magnitude more secure than using a password
Bitcoin Email Scams 2020: Threatening Blackmail Tactics Used to Demand BTC
24.4.2020
The number of bitcoin email scams has been growing in 2020 and the authorities in several countries have warned of new blackmail tactics used in threatening email scams asking for bitcoin. As the world scrambles to cope with the coronavirus pandemic and economic crisis, email scams are taking...