Apr. 23, 2018
Superposition lets one qubit perform two calculations at once, and if two qubits are linked through a quantum effect known as entanglement, they can help perform 2^2 or four calculations simultaneously; three qubits, 2^3 or eight calculations; and so on. In principle, a quantum computer with 300 qubits could perform more calculations in an instant than there are atoms in the visible universe. A powerful enough quantum computer could successfully break conventional cryptography, including that protecting blockchains.
Apr. 23, 2018
Soon after a launch of a new cryptocurrency, Bitvote, in January, Talos discovered a new mining campaign affecting systems in India, Indonesia, Vietnam and several other countries that was tied to Bitvote.
Source: talosintelligence.com
Apr. 23, 2018
The value of cryptocurrencies across the board skyrocketed last year due to speculative investing, and it feels as though early attempts to position digital money as a populist and democratic alternative to traditional finance are falling apart at the seams. But cryptocurrency has always been about the rich getting richer.
Source: vice.com
Apr. 23, 2018
On Tuesday, Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors asked a San Francisco federal court judge to impose that sentence on Karim Baratov, a Canadian citizen born in Kazakhstan who was indicted in March 2017 for working with two officers of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) -that’s Russia’s successor to the KGB – to pull off the historic Yahoo breach.
Source: sophos.com
Apr. 23, 2018
A California company is working on an underwater refueling station that can top off the fuel cells of undersea surveillance drones, allowing the vehicles to venture farther and work longer.
Source: vice.com
Apr. 23, 2018
For more than a decade, Chinese political and corporate leaders have been scouring the globe with seemingly bottomless walletsin hand. From Asia to Africa, the U.S. and Latin America, the results are hard to ignore as China has asserted itself as an emerging world power. Less well known is China’s diffuse but expanding footprint in Europe.
Source: bloomberg.com
Apr. 23, 2018
Energetic Bear/Crouching Yeti is a widely known APT group active since at least 2010. The group tends to attack different companies with a strong focus on the energy and industrial sectors. Companies attacked by Energetic Bear/Crouching Yeti are geographically distributed worldwide with a more obvious concentration in Europe and the US.
In 2016-2017, the number of attacks on companies in Turkey increased significantly.
Source: securelist.com
Apr. 23, 2018
And there’s been a lot of concern that, after their huge ICO fundraises and with no contractual obligation to deliver a product, founders would have little incentive to stick around and do the hard work. But we’re now one year in, and it’s heartening to see that real, meaningful products are shipping.
Source: venturebeat.com
Apr. 23, 2018
Last April, I started a conversation with cybersecurity company Bromium. The company was keen to uncover where the streams of revenue generated by cybercrime eventually go and whether this money is ultimately supporting other areas of crime. Over the past 10 months, I have been examining this question, and I must say there have been some eyebrow-raising findings.
Source: venturebeat.com
Apr. 23, 2018
The newly disclosed bypass is a medium-severity issue that affects Windows 10 S or any Windows 10 machine with user mode code integrity (UMCI) enabled, such as enterprise Windows 10 PCs configured with Microsoft’s virtual container known as Device Guard.
Source: zdnet.com
Apr. 22, 2018
New Morgan Stanley analysis reckons that Bitcoin, currently a little over $8,300, needs to clear $8,600 in order for mining to be profitable.
Source: fortune.com
Apr. 22, 2018
An FDA document released this week reveals several of the FDA’s plans, including the desire to force device makers to include mandatory update systems inside products for the purpose of delivering critical security patches.
Source: bleepingcomputer.com
Apr. 22, 2018
Last week, Uber and the FTC finally settled on a revised consent agreement that now covers both the 2014 and 2016 breaches. The new agreement includes even more comprehensive security and privacy risk assessments, covering the security of Uber’s software development environment and use of the bug bounty.
Source: ieee.org
Apr. 22, 2018
Coin burning, if you’re not familiar, is a well-trod path to inflating the value of a cryptocurrency with a fixed supply, like Bitcoin Cash. The value of coins with a fixed supply is based on increasing demand and steadily decreasing supply. If you can accelerate the diminishment of available coin stock, then theoretically that should increase demand for the remaining supply and, in turn, the coin’s value.
Apr. 22, 2018
A mobile application built by a third party for the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week was found to have a few security issues of its own—including hard-coded security keys and passwords that allowed a researcher to extract the conference’s attendee list. The conference organizers acknowledged the vulnerability on Twitter, but they say that only the first and last names of 114 attendees were exposed.
Apr. 22, 2018
Gamble was arrested in February of 2016 and he pleaded guilty to ten hacking charges in October of last year. Now 18 years old, he was finally sentenced on Friday afternoon local time in the Old Bailey, the central criminal court in London after his first sentencing hearing in January was postponed. The judge ruled that he will have to spend two years at a youth detention center, according to reports from the court.
Apr. 22, 2018
The Bitcoin blockchain now consists of over 500,000 such blocks and a new one is added roughly every ten minutes. Most of these blocks contain data related to sending and receiving Bitcoin, but the blockchain also contains its fair share of short messages—like the one Nakamoto put in the first-ever block of data—photos, and even artworks hidden among the data if you know where to look and how to extract them.
Apr. 22, 2018
All of the transaction data for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are stored in a public ledger known as Blockchains. The tax office has been admitted generous access to bank transfers and other data, which enables identifying people. By matching the transfers it is evident that in the past most citizens have not reported profits made with virtual currencies.
Source: metropolitan.fi
Apr. 22, 2018
The federal government has absolutely experimented with mind control in a variety of methods, but the documents here do not appear to be official. Waltman had no idea why these documents were included in his request and isn’t sure why the government is holding them. The WSFC did not respond to requests for more information.
Source: boingboing.net
Apr. 19, 2018
Peter Thiel’s data-mining company is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens. The scary thing? Palantir is desperate for new customers.
Source: bloomberg.com