Tesla Model 3 Stolen From Mall of America Using Only a Smartphone September 15, 2018 | sento | Leave a comment A little bit of social engineering can go a long way. With cars becoming more connected than ever, cybersecurity is a hot-button topic that extends past your computer screen and into your car. Using a bit of technology, an alleged car thief was able to get his hands on a Model 3 at the Mall… Read More
Almost half of US cellphone calls will be scams by next year, says report September 15, 2018 | sento | Leave a comment Many of us are already conditioned to ignore phone calls from unknown numbers. A new study seems to validate that M.O. By next year, nearly half of the mobile phone calls we get will be scams, according to a new report from First Orion, a company that provides calls management and protection forT-Mobile,MetroPCs,Virgin Mobileand others.… Read More
Bitmex Accused of Manipulating Ethereum’s Price September 12, 2018 | sento | Leave a comment A crypto trading exchange with eye-watering margins of 100x has angered ethereans after Bitmex’s CEO, Arthur Hayes, appeared to tell his customers, under an official Bitmex account, to short eth. Hayes then goes on to use some very colorful and highly professional language in contrast to his public tweet which said: No punting here, but… Read More
In a Few Days, Credit Freezes Will Be Fee September 12, 2018 | sento | Leave a comment Later this month, all of the three major consumer credit bureaus will be required to offer free credit freezes to all Americans and their dependents. Maybe you’ve been holding off freezing your credit file because your home state currently charges a fee for placing or thawing a credit freeze, or because you believe it’s just… Read More
Exploit vendor drops Tor Browser zero-day on Twitter September 10, 2018 | sento | Leave a comment Zerodium, a company that buys and sells vulnerabilities in popular software, has published details today on Twitter about a zero-day vulnerability in the Tor Browser, a Firefox-based browser used by privacy-conscious users for navigating the web through the anonymity provided by the Tor network. In a tweet, Zerodium said the vulnerability is a full bypass… Read More
IBM secretly used New York’s CCTV cameras to train its surveillance software September 9, 2018 | sento | Leave a comment New technology is making surveillance cameras more powerful than ever. Such systems are often developed away from the public eye, as detailed in a new report showing how IBM worked with the NYPD to create software that could search CCTV footage for individuals based on their skin tone. Features like searching for individuals based on… Read More
Proof-of-Stake is a Rebranded Version of the Old Financial System September 9, 2018 | sento | Leave a comment Over the last few years, there’s been a lot of projects, both public and private, that are attempting to create a next-generation blockchain or something better than Satoshi’s Bitcoin. A great majority of these projects have condemned proof-of-work (PoW) cryptocurrencies because they think they waste resources, and many of these new blockchains have chosen to… Read More
Bitcoin Gold delisted from major cryptocurrency exchange after refusing to pay hack damages September 5, 2018 | sento | Leave a comment Bittrex, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchange platforms, has delisted Bitcoin Gold (BTG) from its trading platform over the weekend after BTG maintainers declined to pay half of the damages Bittrex suffered during a complex multi-stage cyber-attack earlier this year. According to a statement from the BTG team, Bittrex asked the BTG team to pay… Read More
Liberal Radicalism: Breaking down Buterin, Hitzig and Weyl’s paper September 4, 2018 | sento | Leave a comment Vitalik Buterin, Zoë Hitzig and E. Glen Weyl yesterday released their paper Liberal Radicalism: Formal Rules for a Society Neutral among Communities. As prior readers will know, I tend to break down whitepapers I suspect most of the community won’t have the time or inclination to do. This falls squarely in that bracket given it… Read More
There’s a Problem With Crypto Funding – And Vitalik Just Might Have a Solution September 4, 2018 | sento | Leave a comment There are free-riders in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. At least, that’s the contention of a new paper, shared with CoinDesk on Monday, written by ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin,Microsoft researcher Glen Weyl and Ph.D. of economics at Harvard, Zoë Hitzig. And free-riders pose a problem. Described in the paper, free-riders are people or businesses that profitfrom the… Read More