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• Fraud is one of the most prominent threats facing the UK economy, costing a reported £130 billion each year. Due to the ...

  • Mark Crichton

• Amazon Ring owners foil $400K Bitcoin extortion plot by removing batteries

  Hackers will do anything to get their hands on Bitcoin. Extortionists managed to breach Ring cameras to demand cryptocurrency ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• This $722M Bitcoin mining scam referred to its marks as 'dumb' investors and 'sheep'

  Authorities in the US have arrested three men in connection with a Bitcoin mining scheme that allegedly defrauded investors ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• How we can stop our smart toasters from spying on us

  Statista projects that there will be 75.4 billion Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices by 2025, a fivefold increase ...

  • Binary District Journal

• Dev says MakerDAO attackers could turn $20M in Ethereum into $340M almost instantly

  A software developer claims to have found a way in which to make an "incredibly profitable" but "expensive" attack to steal ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Judge orders Telegram founder Pavel Durov to testify over its crypto ICO

  Telegram’s founder and CEO Pavel Durov should testify in the US Securities Exchange Commission's (SEC) case against the ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Stantinko botnet caught using YouTube to mine Monero cryptocurrency

  The Stantinko botnet has now added cryptocurrency mining to its toolset — and it's been using YouTube to evade detection. ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• How DevOps and security teams can get along better

  For IT security teams, the rise of DevOps has led to problems with managing security and risk too — but there's a way to ...

  • Marco Rottigni

• Pardon the Intrusion #5: In AI we trust

  Welcome to the latest edition of Pardon The Intrusion, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter in which we explore the wild world of ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Mozilla’s report shows just how awful Ring’s privacy practices are

  When the first internet-connected devices hit the market, they were rare enough that you could seriously consider whether ...

  • Callum Booth

• Bugs in Qualcomm chips leaked private data from Samsung and LG phones

  Researchers have disclosed a set of vulnerabilites affecting Qualcomm chipsets that could allow a potential attacker to steal ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Disney+ accounts are being stolen and sold online

  Scarcely a week after the service debuted, Disney+ accounts area already being hacked en masse. Users report their accounts ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Dutch researchers are developing quantum technology to secure your bank account

  With high speed 5G wireless networks and quantum computers on the horizon, everyone’s personal data is becoming ever more ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• 146 security flaws uncovered in pre-installed Android apps

  Researchers at Kryptowire have uncovered 146 security vulnerabilities in preinstalled apps across 29 Android handset manufacturers. ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Moonday Mornings: Russia’s security agency reportedly linked to $450M cryptocurrency loss

  Welcome to another week of cryptocurrency and blockchain news. Before we get on with the week, let’s take a look at what ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Safari gets support for hardware security keys with iOS 13.3

  Apple's iOS 13.3 update comes with a new nifty feature that allows Safari users to use hardware security keys for two-factor ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Google confirms plans for a search tool that can analyze millions of health records

  Google partners with Ascension to give it access to personal health datasets that can be used to develop AI-based tools for ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Sketchy Android keyboard app with 40M downloads makes money off unauthorized purchases

  Android third-party keyboard app Ai.type has been found to stealthily sign up users for millions of unauthorized purchases ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Facebook Groups members' info left exposed to 100 app developers

  Facebook has revealed that an unspecified number of third-party apps from as many as 100 developers may have improperly accessed ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Uber used Bitcoin to pay $100K hacker ransom in 2017, court docs confirm

  Uber used Bitcoin to pay hackers who held sensitive data for ransom, court documents have confirmed.

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Belgian watchdog's list of scammy cryptocurrency ventures grows to 131 sites

  The Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority is still having to warn netizens about cryptocurrency scams. Its list ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Pardon the Intrusion #3: it's 2FA or bust

  Welcome to the latest edition of TNW's Pardon The Intrusion, a newsletter where we explore the wild world of cybersecurity. ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• WhatsApp sues Israeli security firm for injecting malware into targets' phones through its app

  WhatsApp just sued Israel-based security company, the NSO Group, in a US federal court for allegedly injecting malware into ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• 4 practical tips to verify if your customers are who they say they are

  In the future, a digital ID may replace all your current forms of identification. At the same time, as we become more and ...

  • Jamie Tolentino

• Oops — Adobe leaves 7.5 million Creative Cloud accounts exposed

  Adobe has become the latest victim of a serious serious security breach that exposed information of nearly 7.5 million users ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Hackers are using a bug in PHP7 to remotely hijack web servers

  Things are going to get worse before they get better.

  • Matthew Hughes

• VPN apps with 500M+ installs caught serving disruptive ads to Android users

  Four Android apps with cumulative installs of more than 500 million have been found to serve disruptive ads outside the apps. ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Modern cybersecurity is inaccessible to smaller companies — and that’s bad for you

  We find ourselves in an era when it’s not a question of if but when you’ll get hacked. So it's time to stop and declare: ...

  • Gal Ringel

• Hackers give Johannesburg government 3 days to pay over $30K in Bitcoin

  A group of cybercriminals calling themselves the “Shadow Kill Hackers” has reportedly attacked the City of Johannesburg ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Your smart watch will soon log you into your accounts without a password

  Authentication solutions provider Nok Nok Labs has officially announced the availability of FIDO-based passwordless authentication ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Conservatives put national security at risk to storm impeachment proceedings

  Impeachment proceedings against US President Donald Trump were delayed today when a group of Conservative lawmakers stormed ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Chrome and Firefox will now alert you about data breaches involving your accounts

  Mozilla and Google add password breach notification tools natively into Firefox and Chrome browsers respectively in the latest ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• It doesn’t matter ‘who’ hacked your business

  For business leaders, attribution can be an unnecessary distraction – the focus needs to be on protecting against an attack ...

  • J.J. Thompson

• Google's Titan key for locking your online accounts is now available with USB-C

  Google has announced a USB-C Titan Security Key, manufactured by Yubico, that's compatible with Android, Chrome OS, macOS, ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Vatican launches smart rosary, someone already found a security flaw

  Last week, the Vatican announced it was getting into the Internet of Things with an "eRosary." Naturally, it didn't take ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• The US nukes will no longer run on plate-sized floppy disks

  Enjoy your retirement, old school floppy disks! The US military is upgrading its nuclear system so it'll no longer use the ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Moonday Mornings: Another cryptocurrency SIM-swap victim sues AT&T, this time for $1.8M

  Welcome to Moonday Morning forkers. It's Hard Fork's wrap-up of the weekend's top cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Telegram is postponing its token sale, and it’s still not happy with the SEC

  Telegram has yielded to the US Securities and Exchange Commission over the sale of its Gram tokens, for now. But it still ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Pixel 4's 'Face Unlock' works even if you're asleep or dead -- and that's a problem

  Google’s new Pixel 4 smartphone doesn’t have a fingerprint sensor. Instead it relies on “Face Unlock,” a proprietary ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Cryptojacking worm uses Docker to infect over 2,000 systems to secretly mine Monero

  Unit 42 researchers have uncovered the first-ever instance of a new cryptojacking worm called Graboid that propagates via ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Microsoft rolls out Tamper Protection for Windows antivirus to keep hackers at bay

  Microsoft has officially announced the general availability of Tamper Protection feature for its Windows Defender Antivirus ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Google's Titan Security Keys can be hijacked remotely, replace yours now

  Google is recalling Bluetooth versions of its Titan Security Key after it found a vulnerability that allows attackers in ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• North Korea-linked hackers revive cryptocurrency scam to hijack macOS

  Security researchers uncovered another attack from Lazarus hacking group which seems to be nothing more than a rehash of ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Cybercriminals are targeting healthcare companies with phishing campaigns to steal sensitive data

  Healthcare providers are facing an unprecedented level of social engineering-driven malware threats, according to new research. The ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Cybersecurity vendor that protects firms from data breaches hit by data breach (Updated)

  Security vendor Imperva blamed its August security breach on an AWS API key a hacker stole from an internal test database ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• France says hackers might go after supply chains after Airbus cyber assault

  France has issued a new cyber threat advisory about targeted espionage operations directed at service providers and engineering ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• A bug in Indian local search app exposed over 156 million accounts

  A major flaw in an Indian local search app, Justdial, allowed hackers to log in to any of its 156 million users accounts. Apart ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Here’s how you make your Google Docs secure

  Google Docs is one of the few online applications that I’m deeply dependent on for my everyday work. Like millions of other ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Instagram's new feature can help spot phishing scams — here's how

  Instagram is rolling out a new security feature that makes it easy to spot phishing mails that make it seem like they come ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Twitter says it used your 2FA info to advertise by accident

  Twitter today revealed it may have misappropriated its users private info by giving it to advertisers. The information in ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Hacking victim who paid Bitcoin ransom goes on to hack the hackers

  The hackers behind the Muhstik ransomware virus have been rekt by a German programmer who simply had enough after paying ...

  • David Canellis

• China's new 500-megapixel 'super camera' can instantly recognize you in a crowd

  Chinese researchers develop a new 500 megapixel facial recognition camera capable of capturing "thousands of faces at a stadium ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Apple reportedly pulls app that warns Hong Kong citizens about police activity (Updated)

  Apple has approved an app that allows people in Hong Kong to keep track of protests and police activity in the city state ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• US and UK pressure Facebook for backdoor access to WhatsApp messages

  The US, the UK, Australia are calling on Facebook to delay its plans to implement the end-to-end encryption across its messaging ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• DoorDash leaves door open for data breach, affecting 4.9M people

  Popular on-demand food delivery platform DoorDash has confirmed a data breach affecting 4.9 million customers, workers, and ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Exchanges form Crypto Rating Council, but pre-emptively admit its ratings mean nothing

  It's likely this whole Crypto Rating endeavour is pure virtue signalling to appease regulators, and a confusing waste of ...

  • David Canellis

• Zero-day exploits: 14 things to remember when an issue is discovered

  Zero-day exploits can be detrimental to businesses. However, depending on how you handle an incident when it occurs, you ...

  • Scott Gerber

• Zcash network urged to update nodes immediately to push 'important security fix'

  If you're running a Zcash node, you had better go download the latest software and update right now to avoid exposing the ...

  • David Canellis

• Here’s how to fight back against Bitcoin-ransoming malware

  It sucks when hackers hit you with ransomware and demand Bitcoin for your data's return. Don’t worry, there are things ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Kik fires staff and shuts down messaging app but won’t stop fighting the SEC over its ICO

  Kik's CEO said in a blog post this morning that the ongoing fight with the SEC has left the company with no other decision ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Meet Panda, an illicit cryptocurrency mining crew terrorizing organizations worldwide

  Panda isn't very sophisticated, but it is absolutely prolific: researchers say the crew could've earned roughly $90,000 in ...

  • David Canellis

• Over 13.7M US medical test records found unsecured on servers

  Medical records belonging to millions of patients across the world, including echocardiograms and X-rays, are stored on insecure ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Colossal Ecuador leak exposes data of 20M individuals — including Julian Assange

  The personal data of just about every citizen of Ecuador has been found exposed online in what could be the country's biggest ...

  • Mix

• Apple claps back at Google for spreading FUD in iOS exploit report

  It was just last week that we covered a report by Google's Project Zero security researchers claiming they'd identified a ...

  • Napier Lopez

• How Android 10 is making your phone more private and secure

  A comprehensive look at all the new privacy and security features of Android's latest version Android 10; rolling out to ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• French travel site Option Way leaks 100GB worth of customer details

  A report published today by security research firm VPNMentor suggests its team found 100GB of unsecured customer data from ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• These hackers are supercharging your sex toys for increased pleasure

  This article was originally published on SEXTECHGUIDE, an independent publication that looks at the intersection between ...

  • SEXTECHGUIDE

• 23 state agencies across Texas succumb to a 'coordinated ransomware attack' (Updated)

  Texas is fighting a coordinated ransomware attack that has impacted at least twenty local government entities across the ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Ring's surveillance partnership with law enforcement is deeper than previously thought

  Ring has disclosed that it has inked deals with 405 agencies to "facilitate conversations around crime and safety among all ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Android phone brands ranked by OS update frequency: Nokia is #1

  One of the major concerns when you buy an Android device is the frequency of updates you’ll receive over the years.. Google ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Want to make $10,000 from Libra? Break its blockchain

  The supposedly independent group of companies tasked with overseeing the delivery of Facebook's "cryptocurrency" Libra has ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Cryptography startup sues Black Hat conference after getting booed and heckled

  A cryptography startup is taking things up a notch and is suing organizers of security conference Black Hat USA after being ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Hostinger's database of 14 million customers' info hacked

  Hostinger has forcibly reset all of its client passwords following an unauthorized access of its customer database of about ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Stolen fingerprints could spell the end of biometric security – here’s how to save it

  The biggest known biometric data breach to date was reported recently when researchers managed to access a 23-gigabyte database ...

  • The Conversation

• Pure cringe: UK ISP has the worst excuse for storing passwords in plaintext ever

  Virgin Media: Plaintext passwords are okay because it's illegal to do crimes, apparently.

  • Matthew Hughes

• Vitalik Buterin: Using Ethereum is expensive, and its blockchain is 'almost full'

  Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has reiterated warnings that his blockchain has significant scalability problems, and ...

  • David Canellis

• AI won't automate cybersecurity — but it'll improve the solutions we already have

  Cybersecurity, a huge industry worth over $100 billion, is regularly subject to buzzwords. Cybersecurity companies often ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Researchers discover malware that records users' screens when they watch porn

  Researchers from antivirus developer ESET recently discovered a new form of spam-delivered malware that threatens to steal ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Cryptocurrency scammers conned Australians out of $14.8M in just 7 months

  Cryptocurrency investment scams in Australia cost victims a record $14.76 million between January and July this year. 

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Map reveals which cities use Ring's surveillance network to spy on you

  An engineering student in Illinois has put together a handy map to help pinpoint locations where police are tapped into Ring’s ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Researchers: Popular gay dating apps are still leaking users' location data

  A handful of the most popular gay dating apps are exposing the precise location of their users. In a demonstration for BBC, ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Apple announces developer iPhones with root access for security research

  For all we've made fun of Apple's walled garden here, every once in a while, the company opens up just a bit. Case in point: ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Here's how gamification can help your business understand your users

  Today’s operations require more comprehensive stores of information, most of which deals expressly in the human behavior ...

  • Nathan Sykes

• Kazakhstan begins intercepting citizens' web traffic to 'protect them from cyber threats' (Update: It's canceled)

  The Kazakhstan government has started to intercept all HTTPS traffic from all devices within its borders effective July 17, ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Microsoft: Russian government hackers are targeting IoT devices

  Microsoft today warned that Russian government hackers have been using video decoders, printers, and internet of things devices ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Google's advanced account protection features are now available to G Suite users

  Google has announced several updates to its enterprise cloud platform with an aim to improve users, data, and app security. ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Google researchers disclose ‘interactionless’ iOS exploits valued at $5M

  A duo of Google researchers have disclosed several "interactionless" vulnerabilities in iOS that allowed hackers to hijack ...

  • Mix

• Security firm releases flawed blockchain into the wild to help educate hackers

  One security firm thinks it can fix insecure blockchains, and it believes the key is to start with a really insecure one. ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Russians caught peddling spyware disguised as legit Google and Pornhub apps

  Researchers say a Russian software firm fined by Obama for meddling in the 2016 US elections is making spyware disguised ...

  • Mix

• Android vulnerability lets hackers hijack your phone with malicious videos

  A vulnerability in Android ( found in versions between 7.0 and 9.0) enables hackers to hijack your phone by tricking you ...

  • Mix

• Cryptocurrency startup YouHodler leaks troves of unencrypted customer data

  Cryptocurrency startup YouHodler has reportedly exposed troves of sensitive customer data including credit card information ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Slack now loads 33% faster – and eats up 50% less of your RAM

  No, you're not imaging things: the latest iteration of Slack for desktop is significantly snappier. Not only that, it also ...

  • Mix

• Researchers find worrying security vulnerability in GE Healthcare anesthesia machines

  Our health – and yes, our lives – are in the hands of researchers and vendors.

  • Matthew Hughes

• Monero security flaw could've seen XMR stolen from cryptocurrency exchanges

  Monero devs have disclosed nine security vulnerabilities over the past two days - and some could have been outright devastating. ...

  • David Canellis

• Dutch ministers push for cryptocurrency regulation to fight money laundering

  Dutch ministers want to regulate cryptocurrencies as part of a wider effort to tackle money laundering in the country.

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Moonday Mornings: Facebook scammers target UAE investors with fake Bitcoin ads

  Welcome to another week and another Moonday Mornings. It's Hard Fork's wrap-up of the weekend's top Bitcoin, cryptocurrency ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Two-thirds of failed stablecoin projects were backed by gold

  Most of the stablecoin projects announced since 2017 are still yet to launch, and two-thirds of stablecoin projects that ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• US prisons are taking programming books off the shelves over 'security concerns'

  The Oregon Department of Corrections (DoC) has banned prisoners from reading dozens of books related to technology and programming, ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Hackers are turning our AI security systems against us — but they can be stopped

  With the use of AI growing in almost all areas of business and industry, we have a new problem to worry about – the “hijacking” ...

  • Isaac Ben-Israel

• Why Samsung's virus scans for smart TVs are a UX disaster

  Samsung wants you to run a virus scan on your smart TV every few weeks. Here's why that's a terrible idea, and why you shouldn't ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• India is still hounding WhatsApp to make its messages traceable

  Indian aks WhatApp to "digitally fingerprint" every message sent on its platform without breaking encryption, according to ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Russians (not North Koreans) thought to be behind $530M Coincheck hack

  The $530 million hack that blighted Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck in January 2018 may have been carried out ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• This Google sister company showed you can buy a troll campaign for $250

  A new report from Wired reveals that Google's sister company Jigsaw bought a Russian troll campaign as an experiment for ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Addressing the privacy paradox: Top leaders and experts share insights

  During TNW Conference 2019, top government officials, business and technology leaders came together at The Assembly to discuss ...

  • Andrea Hak

• WATCH: Bitcoin ATM showers London's Bond Street station in cash money

  Footage has surfaced of a Bitcoin ATM filling a duffel bag with bank notes, as a security guard tries to keep onlookers at ...

  • David Canellis

• Microsoft stops asking you to change your Windows 10 password every 60 days

  Microsoft has finally removed its 60-day password expiration policy from its Windows 10 security baseline. So no need to ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Someone spent $1.3 million on a malware-ridden laptop and I clearly don’t understand art

  If you’d bought a Samsung NC10 the day it was released, the laptop would have set you back about $499. That was 11 years ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Kik raised $98M with a potentially illegal ICO. Now it wants your money to fight the SEC

  Kik has resorted to begging the public for money to keep fighting the SEC over claims it illegally sold unregistered securities. ...

  • David Canellis

• Minimize potential cyber hack damage with these 11 good data habits

  Cybercriminals and hackers are more aggressive than ever these days. With advanced technology, breaches are increasingly ...

  • Scott Gerber

• This tiny flashing kit can break your bad online security habits

  The number of cyber attacks is estimated to have risen by 67% over the last five years, with the majority of these data breaches ...

  • The Conversation

• What the hell is a 'cyber diplomat'?

  TNW spoke with Estonia’s first Ambassador at Large for Cybersecurity, Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar, about the new emerging field ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Google stored some G Suite passwords in unhashed form for 14 years

  Google says it discovered a bug that caused some of its enterprise G Suite customers to have their passwords stored in an ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Kenya is allegedly selling citizen data to highest corporate bidder

  According to Dr. Roselyn K. Akombe, Chief of Policy Planning and Guidance at the United Nations and ex-commissioner of Kenya's ...

  • iAfrikan News

• How an engineer at a crypto-security startup lost $100K in a SIM-swapping hack

  BitGo engineering lead Sean Coonce suffered a debilitating $100,000 loss in a SIM-swapping attack on his Coinbase account. ...

  • Mix

• Hackers made $32K in 7 weeks by fixing bugs in cryptocurrency projects

  Blockchain projects TRON, Brave, and EOS have rewarded white hat hackers with cash for fixing their security flaws, according ...

  • David Canellis

• No, end-to-end encryption isn't a marketing gimmick

  Sound the bad take claxon.

  • Matthew Hughes

• This is the email Tesla sent employees after a series of recent leaks

  Tesla this week sent an email to employees warning about the impact of on-going press leaks. The email reminded employees ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Here's why Binance can't erase the $40M hack from Bitcoin's blockchain

  Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao briefly mulled 're-organizing' Bitcoin to exact revenge on the hackers that stole 7,000 BTC from ...

  • David Canellis

• Cyber insurance is worth the hype — if you let hackers write your policy

  I read Rami Sass’ recent piece here on Podium about how cyber insurance is overhyped. While he raised great questions about ...

  • Shawn Ram

• Binance hacked for over $40M worth of Bitcoin

  Binance suffered a "large scale security breach" yesterday evening. The hackers were able to transfer 7,000 Bitcoin (over ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• TRON suffered from a critical bug that could’ve crashed its entire blockchain

  A recent HackerOne disclosure reveals the TRON network had a pretty nasty security flaw, and a security researcher was paid ...

  • David Canellis

• Bitcoin has nearly 100,000 nodes, but over 50% run vulnerable code

  The number of nodes on the Bitcoin network hovers around 100,000 - which is great for decentralization - but many remain ...

  • David Canellis

• Amazon wants to deliver crime news and fear to Ring doorbell owners

  Amazon is in the process of a curious hire - a Managing Editor, News - to help bring "breaking crime news alerts" to owners ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Our smartphone addiction isn’t just bad for our mental health, it’s a security risk

  We’ve all had the “smartphone conversation.” The one about our unhealthy obsession and inability to put phones down. ...

  • Gary Davis

• Why shadow IT is the next looming cybersecurity threat

  Shadow IT is an issue that just about every organization faces on some level, but when I speak to executives and IT leaders, ...

  • Jordan French

• Ethereum bandit makes off with $6.1M after bypassing weak private keys

  There’s a blockchain bandit on the loose – and they’ve already thieved over $6.1 million worth of Ethereum.

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Healthcare has a massive cybersecurity problem, and we're not doing enough to fix it.

  Not long ago, it was reasonable to think that financial businesses would be the most prominent and most profitable targets ...

  • Larry Alton

• 4 things that concern Vitalik Buterin about moving Ethereum to Proof-of-Stake

  Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin took to Reddit to discuss some of the biggest roadblocks ahead the network’s transition ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• CHEAP: Protect your family with Ring’s 15-piece home security kit for just $300

  This deal comes with a free Amazon Echo Dot!

  • Matthew Hughes

• Hackers tweet Bitcoin nonsense and racism via Sweden's top political party

  The Twitter account of Sweden's governing party was hacked with cryptocurrency-related nonsense and wildly offensive hate ...

  • David Canellis

• 6 things you should do to protect yourself from hackers (but probably won’t)

  Hackers are glorified on television for the sake of entertainment value, making a spectacle out of coding activity and what ...

  • Eric Plam

• Smart cities are an AI-powered dystopia that's already happening

  Separating the futuristic from the dystopian in the minds of the general public can be a challenge, particularly when trying ...

  • Binary District Journal

• Rebuilding trust in democracy starts with digital identity verification

  As Mark Zuckerberg recently wrote, “free and fair elections are the heart of every democracy.” Despite controversy over ...

  • Vinny Lingham

• Cyber insurance for companies is overhyped — even though it may be necessary

  For those following the information security space, it can feel as if the past year was just a series of announcements with ...

  • Rami Sass

• Here's how personalized ransomware attacks work, and how to protect yourself

  Once a piece of ransomware has got hold of your valuable information, there is very little you can do to get it back other ...

  • The Conversation

• Hackers fix 20 security flaws in cryptocurrency-related platforms in 2 weeks

  Seven cryptocurrency-related companies paid hackers to patch 20 software bugs in the past two weeks alone, including Stellar, ...

  • David Canellis

• Wyze's new motion and contact sensor kit secures your home for just $20

  We came away impressed when we reviewed Wyze's Cam Pan security camera last year. At just $30 a camera, it was almost disconcertingly ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Weiss Ratings: EOS is the best cryptocurrency, then Ripple, and THEN Bitcoin

  Weiss Ratings' latest report placed alternative cryptocurrencies EOS and Ripple alongside Bitcoin as the top three, snubbing ...

  • David Canellis

• 13 ways entrepreneurs can help their company guard against hacking

  As technology evolves, so do hackers' techniques, something which puts tremendous pressure on organizations to constantly ...

  • Scott Gerber

• Moonday Morning: Bitcoin dev ordered to prove Craig Wright isn’t Satoshi

  It's Monday which means it's Moonday Morning and time to catch up with the top cryptocurrency and blockchain news from over ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Security researchers found over 40 bugs in blockchain platforms in 30 days

  The security experts found kinks in Monero, EOS, and popular cryptocurrency exchange desk Coinbase. Fortunately, none of ...

  • Mix

• Ethereum insiders deny there’s only one computer keeping a copy of its blockchain

  After Ethereum's most recent fork, the cryptocurrency community learned of its special "big, scary nodes," and immediately ...

  • David Canellis

• Moonday Mornings: 30% of cryptocurreny startups failed in 2018

  Another weekend has come and gone, meaning there's blockchain and cryptocurrency news to catch up on, thankfully Monday Mornings ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• We’re not safe without information privacy

  It’s not just because you are a criminal and the coppers might catch you. Or because you really, really hate big corporations ...

  • Larry Sanger

• Web apps will soon let you log in with hardware keys and fingerprints

  WebAuthn a standard for authenticating your identity on the internet, has now been ushered in as an official standard by ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Push notifications are the future of multi-factor authentication

  It's hard to believe, but the most popular password in 2018 was – get ready for it - “123456,” the winner and still ...

  • Raz Rafaeli

• Facial recognition tech sucks, but it’s inevitable

  Is facial recognition accurate? Can it be hacked? These are just some of the questions being raised by lawmakers, civil libertarians, ...

  • Christopher Shiostu

• The worrying trend of children’s data being sold on the dark web

  When was the last time you got a data breach notification, a letter in the mail about a potential compromise, or an email ...

  • Emily Wilson

• How this Australian bank tracked 17,000 kilos of almonds with the blockchain

  Last year the Commonwealth Bank of Australia put a shipment of 17,000 kilos of almonds on the blockchain. But how exactly ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• How to use two-factor authentication on popular PC gaming platforms

  Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice on how to get the most out of your gadgets, apps, ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• 15 strategies everyone should know to protect their online information

  As technology increases at an ever-faster rate, so too do the ways in which our information can be put at risk. With the ...

  • Scott Gerber

• Coinbase handed out a $30K bounty for a critical bug in its systems

  Another day, another bug: cryptocurrency exchange desk Coinbase has handed out a massive $30,000 bug bounty for a critical ...

  • Mix

• The ultimate cryptocurrency explainer: Bitcoin, utility tokens, and stablecoins

  Ten years ago, the arrival of Bitcoin changed how we view the global monetary system: it ushered a new era that is reshaping ...

  • Rebecca Campbell

• Important security lessons learned from Apple's creepy FaceTime bug

  Earlier this month, I woke up to a disastrous security bug in Apple’s FaceTime that could let anyone easily eavesdrop on ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Where automotive cybersecurity is headed in 2019

  There are more connected cars than ever -- manufacturers are making more of them than ever, more people are driving them ...

  • Yossi Vardi

• Google’s new extension tells you if your passwords have been compromised

  Google's just launched a Chrome browser extension that's designed to help protect your online accounts from intruders. Hopefully, ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• WhatsApp can now protect your chats with TouchID and FaceID (and I hope it gets copied)

  WhatsApp is launching a new security feature that's so simple and useful, I'm surprised more messaging apps haven't implemented ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Politicians have failed us, it's time for AI to stop school shootings

  Thoughts, prayers, and politicians have proven ineffective against the threat of school shootings. It's time to demand schools ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Ethereum blockchain undergoes massive cryptocurrency gambling exodus

  The Ethereum blockchain was once home to the bulk of the internet's cryptocurrency gamblers, but not anymore. It seems they've ...

  • David Canellis

• Japanese officials will target millions of IoT devices to help secure the Olympics

  Hack (a bit of) the planet!

  • Matthew Hughes

• Everybody hates cybersecurity professionals

  Infosec has an image problem.

  • Matthew Hughes

• Protecting yourself from inevitable data breaches is easier than you think

  It’s tempting to give up on data security altogether, with all the billions of pieces of personal data – Social Security ...

  • The Conversation

• The quiet threat inside 'internet of things' devices

  As Americans increasingly buy and install smart devices in their homes, all those cheap interconnected devices create new ...

  • The Conversation

• How 2018 became Facebook’s worst year in privacy and security

  In early December, Facebook’s developer team declared the discovery of a security bug that gave developers access to ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Cryptocurrency mining malware has become self-aware (kinda)

  Cryptocurrency mining malware has evolved and is now able to switch off security services to continue mining without being ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• 773 million email addresses have been leaked – check if yours is on the list

  We’re just over two weeks into 2019, and one of the biggest data leaks in recent years has surfaced. Today, renowned security ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Long-serving cryptocurrency exchange forced offline, hackers blamed

  One of the internet’s longest serving cryptocurrency exchanges, Cryptopia, claims to have suffered a debilitating hack, ...

  • David Canellis

• Keep your digital life secure with these 6 simple tricks

  Data breaches, widespread malware attacks, and microtargeted personalized advertising were lowlights of digital life in 2018. As ...

  • The Conversation

• NASA looks to secure flight data with blockchain tech

  NASA is exploring potential use-cases for blockchain technology in a bid to safeguard the privacy and security of aircraft ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Google twists Samourai Wallet's arm to disable privacy features

  Samourai Wallet, a bitcoin wallet provider, is temporarily disabling some of its privacy-related features following a request ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• There's more to Bitcoin maximalism than meets the eye

  What exactly is Bitcoin maximalism? In this article, Hard Fork takes a look at what Bitcoin maximalism is, and what it means ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• This is the future of authentication, according to security experts

  Passwords may not have been much of an annoyance back in the 1960s, when they were first believed to have been introduced ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Teacher of the year for life: Professor hired mercenaries to rescue student from ISIS

  Some teachers deserve apples, this one deserves a whole orchard after sending a team of mercenaries to rescue a student who ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Let’s face it, users should never be the last line of defense in cybersecurity

  Users have walked a very insecure tightrope for decades, clicking on links and opening untrusted attachments. It's time we ...

  • Fraser Kyne

• This sex-positive dating app connects people through their fantasies

  As with, well, everything really, the internet has changed the dating game. Just think how ubiquitous the phrase “swipe ...

  • Callum Booth

• Starwood breach affecting 500M users reportedly part of a larger Chinese state-sponsored attack

  The New York Times reports that the Starwood breach was part of a larger state-sponsored intelligence-gathering effort spurred ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• 12 big encryption trends that will keep data more secure

  As cybercriminals become more sophisticated, it becomes easier for them to circumvent security measures and access sensitive ...

  • Scott Gerber

• 5 ways AI can be an ally for human rights over the next decade

  Happy Universal Human Rights Day! We came up with five ways we think AI will help us in the fight for all of humanity over ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Moonday Morning: Israel is cracking down on cryptocurrency tax evaders

  It's been another weekend of hodling and watching the markets, here's a wrap-up of the weekend's top cyptocurrency and blockchain ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Switzerland says its national blockchain will be more secure than Bitcoin – it won’t be

  Swiss Post and Swisscom are building a completely private Swiss blockchain for launching locally operated "decentralized" ...

  • David Canellis

• Nasdaq could launch Bitcoin futures in early 2019

  Despite the cryptocurrency market's plummeting price of recent weeks, the Nasdaq is still plowing ahead with preparations ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• This AI-powered scanner will sniff out your drugs in the mail

  The AI can already detect weapons and explosives, and will soon learn to identify synthetic drugs.

  • Anouk Vleugels

• The frustratingly simple techniques of ‘human hacking’ — and how to fight them

  Technology has changed the meaning of how we interpret security and privacy in this digital millennium with tools that can ...

  • Peter Buttler

• Facebook hack proves we need new user authentication methods

  Facebook's recent security hack that possibly affected 90 million users has exposed the fundamental flaws that our authentication ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Drone assassination attempts are a reminder that better legislation is needed

  It will be up to the private sector, airspace security, and safety companies, to develop solutions that outwit and stop the ...

  • Tim Bean

• Please appreciate Mozilla’s security-focused gift guide

  Shout out Mozilla. The not-for-profit company behind the web-browser Firefox has put together a gift guide with a difference. ...

  • Callum Booth

• Post-WannaCry: Only 3% of companies are prepared for new types of cyberattacks

  One year ago, my phone lit up with the first text alert about the WannaCry ransomware attack. From the onset, it was clear ...

  • Gad Naveh

• China has a new surveillance tool that identifies citizens by how they walk

  Chinese authorities have begun deploying a new surveillance tool designed to identify people by how they walk, or the shapes ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Here’s how face recognition tech can be GDPR compliant

  Ah, face recognition, that nifty little feature that's already making the still new fingerprint scanners (kind of) obsolete. ...

  • Parth Misra

• 6 reasons why municipalities are getting hammered by cyberattacks

  More and more municipalities are becoming victims of hacks. For example in the US, the first half of 2018 has seen many major ...

  • John Randall

• The 7 deadly sins of email security

  Email is one of the most fundamental forms of business communication today. Not many of us can imagine our lives without ...

  • Mark Forrest

• Philips will challenge tech giants to bring blockchain to healthcare

  Data breaches are among the most damaging security incidents, and they happen everywhere. What makes the healthcare industry ...

  • Ben Dickson

• How to filter marketing fluff from startups’ AI promises

  For anyone looking to engage with AI startup companies, the prevalence of marketing fluff can make it difficult to move forward. ...

  • Navot Volk

• How an employee screw-up made my company better at employee retention

  In order to keep a start-up company’s momentum going, you have to be proactive and creative in retaining employees -- since ...

  • Gil Dotan

• Facebook is using your personal data, here’s why it’s fine

  When the Cambridge Analytica scandal came out, it did more than just shake up Facebook, it stirred the conversation about ...

  • Daniel Rosenfeld

• The algorithms that are currently fueling the deep learning revolution

  From beating us at the game of GO, to recreating paintings by Van Gogh, algorithms are all around us. Artificial Intelligence ...

  • Jim Stolze

• Smart cities are for the rich — we need to change that

  Chandigarh, the capital of both India’s Punjab and its neighboring state Haryana, is a very special city. It rose from ...

  • Binary District Journal

• Without coaching our privacy, does Google even have a business?

  Google is on a seemingly-ceaseless crusade to turn every one of its users into an open book that it can exploit for valuable ...

  • Gary Eastwood

• Egypt's new anti-cybercrime law could mean VPN users face jail time

  Egypt's President, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, has signed into law the Anti-Cyber and Information Technology Crimes legislation. ...

  • iAfrikan News

• Major cryptocurrency exchange delists Bitcoin Gold following $18M hack

  A major cryptocurrency exchange is delisting Bitcoin Gold after a series of debilitating heists amounting to over $20 million ...

  • David Canellis

• Gaming events will forever have to rethink security after Jacksonville

  Esports and event organizers are being forced to rethink and beef up their security after the tragedy in Jacksonville, Florida. ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• North Korean hackers are targeting cryptocurrency traders with fake software

  Kaspersky Labs has discovered a North Korean hacking crew is targeting cryptocurrency traders by trojanizing exchange software. ...

  • David Canellis

• Telling the truth about defects in technology should never, ever, ever be illegal

  Congress has never made a law saying, "Corporations should get to decide who gets to publish truthful information about defects ...

  • Cory Doctorow

• Tesla whistleblower alleges drug trafficking, illegal surveillance at Nevada Gigafactory

  A former Tesla employee today filed a formal complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission alleging the automaker ...

  • Bryan Clark

• The Australian Securities Exchange is crazy about blockchain – for all the wrong reasons

  The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) annual earnings report featured an impromptu lecture on blockchain tech, claiming ...

  • David Canellis

• Twitter is now recommending users follow cryptocurrency scambots

  Despite constant pressure to ban them, Twitter has been recommending users follow obvious cryptocurrency scambots impersonating ...

  • David Canellis

• An 11-year-old hacked a government website and changed election results at DEFCON

  Last Friday, an 11-year-old apparently managed change election results within 10 minutes. While at this year's DEFCON, he ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• John McAfee’s 'unhackable' cryptocurrency wallet has been hacked (again)

  A team of security researchers has a solid claim to $10,000, after meeting the three requirements of Bitfi's second bug bounty ...

  • David Canellis

• Research: More than 56% of all cryptocurrency crime happens in the US

  Investigations reveal account information of 720 cryptocurrency exchange users has been stolen, a 369 percent increase from ...

  • David Canellis

• Facial recognition is Tokyo’s secret weapon to beat the heat at the 2020 Olympics

  The 2020 Tokyo Olympics plans to introduce facial recognition software at security checkpoints -- both to cut down on unauthorized ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Blockchain bug hunters feature prominently at this year's Pwnie Awards

  Three researchers are up for Pwnie Awards this year after exposing critical bugs in popular blockchain projects IOTA and ...

  • David Canellis

• Bug in cryptocurrency platform Augur meant users could be duped into losing money

  A massive vulnerability has been discovered in the decentralized betting platform Augur, which allowed all data shown in ...

  • David Canellis

• GDPR is eroding our privacy, not protecting it

  It's been more than a couple of months since GDPR (the EU General Data Protection Regulation) came into force. The promise ...

  • Mindaugas Kiskis

• Police believe this Alexa skill could prevent break-ins

  For centuries, homeowners have relied on increasingly novel ways to deter would-be home invaders: From motion-sensing lights ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Monero wallet vulnerability made it possible to steal XMR from exchanges

  Monero, the cryptocurrency often praised for its privacy functions, was full of vulnerabilities - one allowing hackers to ...

  • David Canellis

• 3 ways regulations need to change for the drone industry to take off

  The drone industry is on the cusp of a revolution, with consumer adoption expanding and commercial applications growing, ...

  • Tim Bean

• John McAfee's 'unhackable' Bitcoin wallet (allegedly) got hacked

  John McAfee threw down the gauntlet last week when claiming his newly-created Bitcoin wallet, Bitfi, was "unhackable." It ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Researchers find tons of red flags in Bitfi’s ‘unhackable’ cryptocurrency wallet

  An ad-hoc collective of security researchers and hackers has revealed that the Bitfi cryptocurrency wallet is full of spyware ...

  • David Canellis

• Binance's first official acquisition is a mobile cryptocurrency wallet

  Binance announced it has acquired a mobile wallet solution in an effort to improve “the centralized architecture” of ...

  • David Canellis

• Smart contract hacks cost millions — this company wants to fix it

  Last November, a user accidentally froze around 514,000 ETH (worth approx. $155 million) in Parity, a popular Ethereum wallet. ...

  • Ben Dickson

• MoviePass never had a chance

  Subscription movie service MoviePass offered anyone willing to shell out $10 a month -- less than the price of a single movie ...

  • Bryan Clark

• John McAfee will pay you $100K if you get into his 'unhackable' crypto-wallet

  McAfee says he will give $100,000 to anyone who can break into the 'Bitfi' wallet, the supposedly ‘unhackable’ cryptocurrency ...

  • David Canellis

• What Hollywood gets right and wrong about hacking

  Catherine Flick, De Montfort University Spoiler warnings for Mr. Robot, Arrow, and Blackhat... Technology is everywhere ...

  • The Conversation

• Sorry thieves, you can no longer hack iris-scanners using corpse eyes

  Researchers in Poland have created a machine learning algorithim that can tell the difference between dead and alive irises. ...

  • Callum Booth

• Paying for a service doesn’t guarantee it won’t sell your data

  In the wake of Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal and congressional hearings, there’s a palpable sense that the pressure ...

  • Praful Krishna

• How cryptography enables online shopping, cloud tech, and the blockchain

  What do the Gallic Wars and online shopping have in common? The answer, believe it or not, is cryptography. Cryptography ...

  • Nigel Smart

• AI is finding out when the person using your account isn't you

  To some, the future of authentication might look a little creepy. But the explosion of data and connectivity will provide ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Here’s what Sirin Labs’ $1,000 blockchain phone looks like

  Remember Sirin Labs – the Israeli manufacturer that built the $16,000 Solarin smartphone nobody wanted? The company is ...

  • David Canellis

• Bancor loses $12.5M worth of Ethereum to cyber baddies in overnight raid

  Israeli digital asset exchange Bancor has suffered a major hack overnight, a stark reminder that major players are not paying ...

  • David Canellis

• White House earmarks over $1B for quantum technology research

  Recent bipartisan efforts from the US House of Representatives and Senate have led to the formation of a subcommittee to ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Medicine's blockchainification is imminent, say researchers

  Analyzing 40 PubMed journals for blockchains revealed a continued and growing interest from the healthcare research and medical ...

  • David Canellis

• Syscoin: Suspicious blockchain activity unrelated to Binance trading anomaly

  Syscoin (SYS) cryptocurrency saw a series of odd patterns on its blockchain on Tuesday. After a detailed investigation, the ...

  • Neer Varshney

• How to stop hackers from stealing your information on public Wi-Fi

  Why is public Wi-Fi so attractive to hackers? Here we share a simple solution that protects you from the vast majority of ...

  • Arthur Baxter

• Google Drive now lets you prevent others from downloading, printing and copying shared files

  Google wants to help keep your files a little more secure thanks to new Information Rights Management tools in Drive. Simply ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Load up on CompTIA certification training for less than $8 per course

  In the IT world, there’s no more bankable training than certification from CompTIA, one of the industry’s most respected ...

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