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Following a court battle with the IRS, online cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase will provide the records of 13,000 users to the tax collection agency, the company announced on Feb 23. The government will receive ‘certain limited categories’ … Continue reading Coinbase releases data of 13,000 customers to IRS
Bitmessage developers have warned of a critical ‘remotely executable’ zero-day vulnerability in the PyBitmessage application that was being exploited in the wild.
Bitmessage is a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) communications protocol used to send encrypted messag… Continue reading Hackers Exploiting ‘Bitmessage’ Zero-Day to Steal Bitcoin Wallet Keys
Talk about having a bad day… First you get hit with ransomware, demanding you send a Bitcoin payment to anonymous hackers Then you realise that you don’t have a secure backup of your files, so you’ll have to pay up to have any hope of… Continue reading Bitcoin hijack steals from both ransomware authors AND their victims
In this special “splinter” episode of the “Smashing Security” podcast we take a look at Bitcoin and Blockchain. What’s all the fuss about cryptocurrencies? How can you protect your Bitcoin wallet? And how does the Blockchain work?
Listen to the latest … Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #059: An intro to Bitcoin and Blockchain
A hardware wallet helped me overcome my Fear Of Joining In when it came to Bitcoin investing.
Continue reading Bitcoin FOMO or FOJI?
Researchers have been warning for years about critical issues with the Signaling System 7 (SS7) that could allow hackers to listen in private phone calls and read text messages on a potentially vast scale, despite the most advanced encryption used by c… Continue reading Here’s How Hackers Can Hijack Your Online Bitcoin Wallets
What a good start of the New Year for those holding Bitcoins!
Web-based digital currency Bitcoin has passed $1,110 for the first time on the Bitstamp Price Index (BPI) since early November 2013.
Bitcoin broke the barrier on 1 January and now is tradi… Continue reading Bitcoin Price Jumps Above $1150 — Highest in last 3 Years
What a good start of the New Year for those holding Bitcoins!
Web-based digital currency Bitcoin has passed $1,110 for the first time on the Bitstamp Price Index (BPI) since early November 2013.
Bitcoin broke the barrier on 1 January and now is tradi… Continue reading Bitcoin Price Jumps Above $1150 — Highest in last 3 Years
Over two months ago, the world’s third largest Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex lost around $72 Million worth of Bitcoins in a major hack.
Shortly after the company encountered a $72,000,000 Bitcoin theft, an unnamed Bitfinex user from Cambridge, Massachuset… Continue reading FBI is Investigating Theft of $1.3 Million in Bitcoin from a Massachusetts Man
UPDATE: The site is back and working. Blockchain team released a statement via Twitter, which has been added at the end of this article.
If you are fascinated with the idea of digital currency, then you might have heard about BlockChain.Info.
It’s Down!
Yes, Blockchain.info, the world’s most popular Bitcoin wallet and Block Explorer service, has been down from last few hours, and it’s