Jul 6, 2019 | automation, Business, Cryptocurrency, Financial, Generation-Y, Millennials, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Retail, Technology
Crypto trust is costly and hidden The world’s first cryptocurrency ATM opened for business in a Canadian coffee shop on October 29, 2013, and by the end of the day, 81 people had visited the novel machine to trade their cash for bitcoin or vice versa. This...
May 2, 2019 | 2019, Breaches, March
Who: Oberlin College, Grinnell College, Hamilton College # of Accounts Breached: What was affected: Admissions database When it happened: March 2019 How it happened: The mysterious sender offered the student a chance to see his file, including comments by admissions...
Apr 11, 2019 | 2019, Breaches, March
Who: Chinese State When: 11 March 2019 # of records involved: What happened: The National Network and Information Security Information Center has identified overseas hackers targeting the websites of government departments with emails containing ransomware. How did it...
Apr 3, 2019 | 2019, Breaches, March
Who: Jackson County, Georgia Date: 9 March 2019 Ransom Costs: $400,000 in Bitcoin What Happened: A ransomware attack hit the computers of Jackson County, Georgia, reducing government activity to a crawl until officials decided to pay cybercriminals $400,000 in...
Feb 23, 2019 | 2019, Breaches, January
Who: LocalBitcoins No. of Accounts Breached: 6 as of press time What was affected: It confirmed that the vulnerability allowed the attacker to gain access to an undisclosed number of accounts, although, at press time, it only knew of six cases where users had been...