Security

Roger Ver Predicts $1B Market Cap For Monero

Roger Ver Predicts $1B Market Cap For Monero

Monero (XMR), a crypto currency which I have been writing about in the recent weeks, has captured the minds, imagination and wallets of many investors. Within the last two weeks Monero has seen a 200% rise in value, mostly due to announcements from darknet websites...

Forget Bitcoin: Why Monero is What Everything Bitcoin Wanted To Be, And More

Forget Bitcoin: Why Monero is What Everything Bitcoin Wanted To Be, And More

Monero has been designed from the ground up to maintain privacy, anonymity and fungibility, characteristics that Bitcoin no longer has. Without getting into too many technical details, Monero has innovated in several areas helping the currency maintain its anonymity. The Monero protocol is using one-time ring signatures and stealth addresses to obfuscate details about transactions and the amounts involved.

The Feds Lied All Along: Demand Apple Decrypt 12 More iPhones

The Feds Lied All Along: Demand Apple Decrypt 12 More iPhones

Last week I covered the story of the FBI asking a federal judge to order Apple to insert a back-door into iOS in order to gain the ability to brute force the password and encryption keys of the San Bernardino shooter, and I concluded that Apple rightly said 'No' to...

Is Microsoft Shutting Down Windows 10 Privacy Research?

Is Microsoft Shutting Down Windows 10 Privacy Research?

By Virgil Vaduva About a week ago a Windows 10 user going by the name of CheesusCrust published a post in the technology subverse on Voat about his research into how Windows 10 user telemetry choices are being violated by Microsoft, even when the user disabled said...

Why Craig Steven Wright is Not Satoshi Nakamoto

Why Craig Steven Wright is Not Satoshi Nakamoto

By Virgil Vaduva Bitcoin and technology media is in a feeding frenzy over the revelations from Wired Magazine and Gizmodo about the latest news: Satoshi Nakamoto has been identified! And his name is Craig Steven Wright, an Australian man living in a modest Sidney...

ModPOS Malware: iSight’s Pathetic Effort to Increase Revenues

ModPOS Malware: iSight’s Pathetic Effort to Increase Revenues

  A few days before the 2015 Black Friday frenzy, a number of security web sites and security bloggers have published and re-published a very well-timed and very scary report issued by iSight Partners, a security firm based out of Dallas, Texas. The report in...

Over a Million PHI Records Dump Off Systema Software

Over a Million PHI Records Dump Off Systema Software

Kate Knibbs from Gizmodo started writing last last night about Systema Software, a small software company hosted in AWS (Amazon Web Services) who's infosec practices led to a pretty large "breach" or exposure and of healthcare records to the curious, general public....