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White Hat Hackers Earn $32,000 for Finding Crypto Security Exploits in Last Two Months
20.5.2019
White hat hackers reportedly earned over $32,000 in bounties for finding security gaps in blockchain- and crypto-related projects in the last two months
Latest Hack Sparks Concern Whatsapp Will Never Be Secure
20.5.2019
Facebook’s popular messaging app with 1.5 billion users in over 180 countries has another major vulnerability. Hackers were able to covertly install spyware on iOS and Android smartphones using Whatsapp with just a phone call. “All of their security issues are conveniently suitable...
How to Travel the World With Bitcoin Cash
19.5.2019
Traveling is on everyone’s minds as summer approaches and crypto enthusiasts are no exception. But for anyone thinking of a holiday trip, travel arrangements can be arduous. Crypto payments can make your life easier in that regard, particularly with bitcoin cash, which is a fast and cheap...
Kik CEO Says Firm Spent $5+ Million on Negotiations With US SEC: Report
19.5.2019
Startup Kik allegedly spent over $5 million on its negotiations with the U.S. SEC
Inflation Bug Still a Danger to More Than Half of All Bitcoin Full Nodes
19.5.2019
Close to 50,000 bitcoin full nodes are still vulnerable to the inflation bug
Bitcoin Payments Are Being Bulldozed for Political Reasons
19.5.2019
Bitcoin Core wants to distance itself politically from the former project leader Gavin Andresen, the payment protocol BIP070 he was involved with, and from the BCH-friendly Bitpay payment processor company. The attempts to remove software associated with Gavin Andresen are now having real-world...
Think Tank Warns of Ethereum Security Risks
17.5.2019
The whole Ethereum network could be facing the threat of a 51% attack due to some clients that remain unpatched, according to a recent report from Berlin-based hacking research collective and consulting think tank Security Research Labs. This is due to a whole third of Ethereum Parity nodes not...
Weekly news: PWA Issue on iOS, Performance Culture, Anti-Tracking in Browsers
17.5.2019
In this week's news: resolving an issue when restarting progressive web apps in iOS, why The Telegraph now vets all scripts before they make it to their codebase, and Microsoft plans to add tracking prevention to the Edge browser.
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Unpatched Ethereum Clients Pose 51% Attack Risk, Says Report
17.5.2019
Ethereum clients that still haven't patched known vulnerabilities pose a security risk to the entire network, according to new research
Data: Just 2/3 of ETH Nodes Running Parity Have Been Patched Against Critical Security Flaw
17.5.2019
Hacking research collective SRLabs claims that only two thirds of the Ethereum client software that runs on Ethereum nodes has been patched against a critical security flaw
Blockchain Infrastructure Firm Blockstream Launches Security Token Platform
16.5.2019
Blockstream has announced the launch of its Liquid Securities platform for businesses that want to issue security tokens
Blockstream Launches Security Token Platform on Bitcoin Sidechain
15.5.2019
Blockstream, the bitcoin-focused startup, is creating anew security token platform on its Liquid sidechain network
Donald Trump All Set to Sign Order That Will Ban Huawei from the United States
15.5.2019
One of the biggest fallouts from the tensions between the United States and China has been the former’s accusation against the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, that eventually led to its ban in America. The US authorities accused that the telecommunication equipment that is supplied...
Digital Asset Finance Firm BitGo Announces Off-Chain Clearance and Settlement Service
14.5.2019
An off-chain clearing and settlement service has been launched by digital asset finance firm BitGo
Australian Advisory Firm to Launch $250 Mln Digital Securities Offering for Mining Sector
14.5.2019
Major Australian capital advisory firm PCF Capital Group has chosen permissioned blockchain ecosystem KoreConX for a $250 million digital securities offering
Payments Startup Uphold to Use Ledger Vault
14.5.2019
American payments startup Uphold has announced that it will use Ledger Vault to secure assets on its platform
Nym Technologies Raises $2.5 Million to Anonymize Crypto Apps
13.5.2019
This startup is betting tokens can help incentivize privacy infrastructure across the internet
Charles Hoskinson to Launch Security Token Blockchain With Polymath
13.5.2019
Security token platform Polymath will build a separate blockchain for regulation-compliant tokens with Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Charles Hoskinson
Polymath, Charles Hoskinson Team Up on Security Token Blockchain
13.5.2019
Polymath is partnering with Charles Hoskinson to build a blockchain network specifically designed to support security tokens
Securitize Open-Sources Its Protocol, Partners With tZERO Token Exchange
13.5.2019
Securitize has partnered with Overstock subsidiary tZERO as it open-sources the code behind its in-house protocol