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Hackers Are Trying to Mine Crypto Using Russian Government Servers, Expert Says
5.2.2021
Hackers have been mining crypto on government servers in Russia, including defense contractors and medical centers, expert says
International Operation Disrupts Ransomware Group Netwalker by Tracing Cryptos With the Help of Blockchain Analysis
29.1.2021
In collaboration with Bulgarian authorities, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) disrupted a well-known ransomware gang’s infrastructure. Law enforcement seized their servers and traced the illicit funds with the help of blockchain forensic analytics via Chainalysis. US Authorities Seized...
Servers: Cool Once Again
22.1.2021
There were jokes coming back from the holiday break that JavaScript decided to go all server-side. I think it was rooted in:
The Basecamp gang releasing Hotwire, which looks like marketing panache around a combination of technologies. “HTML over
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Crypto Exchange Livecoin Begs Users to Stop Trading After Losing Control of Servers
24.12.2020
Livecoin asked clients to stop making deposits and trading after suffering a "carefully planned attack."
Major Exchanges Experience Technical Issues as Bitcoin Price Drives in Massive Traffic
18.12.2020
Bitcoin has finally broken the $20k resistance level. The record-breaking price caused massive traffic on a myriad of crypto exchange platforms like Binance and Coinbase. Bitcoin All-Time Price High Causes Issues on Binance For weeks now, many crypto enthusiasts have been hoping that the price...
Better than DeFi: SINOVATE’s New Infinity Nodes Provide Up to 130% Returns
30.11.2020
SINOVATE’s Incorruptible Data Storage (IDS) dCloud network is providing game-changing decentralised cloud storage to the market – and to do that, the network needs reliable, distributed hardware and dedicated servers which will provide it with the stability and longevity needed to...
XRP Price Climbed 123% in 30 Days, Spark Token Airdrop Pushes Value Higher
24.11.2020
During the course of the week digital currency markets have seen colossal gains and one crypto asset, in particular, XRP, has jumped significantly in value over the last seven days. The distributed ledger token XRP climbed 25% upwards on Tuesday alone, and seven-day price stats show the coin...
DOJ states it has jurisdiction over foreign crypto companies that touch US servers
8.10.2020
The US government says they have broad extraterritorial jurisdiction over crypto-related businesses
DMScript Announces Partnership with OVH for Their Optimized Servers
28.9.2020
The United Kingdom-based blockchain gaming company DMScript announced on Sunday that it has partnered with renowned cloud computing solutions provider OVHcloud, to utilize their optimized servers. In the official blog on Medium, the company said they would use OVHcloud services for Higglo, a...
Many cloud servers are still at high risk of being hijacked for crypto mining
14.9.2020
Is cryptojacking still an underrated threat?
Most Attacks on Cybersecurity Firm’s Decoy Servers Aimed at Mining Crypto: Report
14.9.2020
An analysis of 16,371 cyberattacks on Aqua Security "honeypot" cloud servers found the majority of hackers involved mining crypto
Running spot instances effectively with Amazon EKS
14.7.2020
I know this is a little outside the normal scope of CSS-Tricks stuff, but I find the whole concept of spot instances fascinating. Here’s the gist from a very-non-expert (me). You can just buy and pay for web servers, for example, Amazon EC2. You can save a bunch of money if you buy them...
Botnet Exploits SQL Servers to Install Crypto Mining App
10.6.2020
Sophos revealed recent botnet attacks breach Microsoft SQL server databases to install a well-known Monero mining app
Enjin’s New Minecraft Plugin Lets Players Spawn Blockchain Assets
28.5.2020
Players can now drop blockchain assets into their Minecraft servers, enabling ownership over in-game items and currencies
Hyperblock Bitcoin Mining Servers and Datacenter Infrastructure to Be Auctioned off in Public Sale
20.5.2020
Thousands of mining servers and all the datacenter infrastructure needed to operate them will be auctioned off in an upcoming public sale of Hyperblock’s property. The company has announced on Thursday, May 14, 2020, that its 20MW Montana, USA datacenter went offline and that it has ceased...
Thousands of Microsoft Servers Infected By Crypto-Mining Botnet Since 2018, Says Report
1.4.2020
The attackers have apparently been targeting Microsoft SQL database servers to mine cryptocurrency for two years
Baidu Employee Jailed for Mining Monero Worth $14K on Company Servers
16.3.2020
A Baidu employee who mined Monero on company servers is jailed for three years
Baidu Employee Jailed for Mining Crypto on 200 Company Servers
16.3.2020
The search engine developer downloaded monero mining scripts onto 200 of Baidu's servers
The 3 Laws of Serverless
6.3.2020
Burke Holland thinks that to "build applications without thinking about servers" is a pretty good way to describe serverless, but...
Nobody really thinks about servers when they are writing their code. I mean, I doubt any developer has ever thrown up their hands and said “Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait...
How to Specify User Agent with cURL
25.2.2020
Over the years I’ve shared how to perform a number of actions with cURL: how to send POST data, how to retrieve headers, follow redirects, check GZIP encoding, and more. Another useful cURL directive is sending the user agent, as some servers respond with different content or headers...