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Cryptocurrency phishing attack nets over $1 million in a few hours

With tremendous money to be made in a short period of time, phishing has become commonplace within the cryptocurrency exchange world, particularly at the moment when a new currency comes along and debuts with its initial coin offering (ICO), an event not unlike an initial public offering with corporate stock.

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Final day to vote!

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Blockchain – More than coin…

I read an interesting article today about some of the activities occurring at Davos this week. Robert Shiller made some interesting comments (https://qz.com/1189516/robert-shiller-said-at-the-wef-in-davos-that-bitcoin-is-characterized-by-speculation/ ) – however mostly centered around bitcoin itself. For sure – it has been a bumpy ride – and outside of hype and other reasons for the sudden

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Business E-Mail Compromise-Angriffe (Imposter) durch Betrüger lassen nicht nach

Business E-Mail Compromise(BEC)-Angriffe haben in den letzten Jahren zahlenmäßig zugenommen und werden von ihrer relativen Erfolgsrate angetrieben – verglichen mit anderen finanziell motivierten Angriffen. Sie scheinen recht einfach zu sein: Der Angreifer sendet dem ausgesuchten Opfer, das für gewöhnlich ein Mitglied des Finanzteams ist, eine E-Mail und fordert es dazu

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Business Email Compromise (Imposter) Attacks Are Not Going Away

Business email compromise (BEC) attacks have been increasing in number over the last few years, driven by their relative success rate compared to other financially motivated attacks. They appear to be quite simple – the attacker sends an email to the intended victim, usually a member of the finance team,

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Blockchain and Data Security

Much has been discussed about Blockchain and Data Security and their significant impact to come. Much of my interest has been towards how to provide more authenticity to transactions and secure the history of content/data – to a forensic level if required for certain types of data (and who doesn’t

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