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Blockchain Technology Is Great for Any Distributed Transactions – Interview with Sam Rehman, Arxan

August 12, 2017

Bitcoin, as well as other cryptocurrencies, are at all-time high in popularity, as more and more people hear about it and decide to invest. The attraction of this technology [...]

Hackers use ransomware to target hotel guests’ door locks

January 30, 2017

A bunch of hackers spoiled several travelers’ trip to the Alps last week when the group used ransomware to attempt to lock guests of the Romantik Seehotel Jägerwir luxury [...]

Ransomware app hosted in Google Play infects unsuspecting Android user

January 26, 2017

Google Play, the official market for Android apps, was caught hosting a ransomware app that infected at least one real-world handset, security researchers said Tuesday. The [...]

Facial recognition will replace passports in Australia

January 25, 2017

Australia has started implementing biometric facial, iris and fingerprint recognition in airports, allowing passengers to go through without showing a passport or even [...]

Minecraft link to net’s biggest botnet

January 20, 2017

Security blogger Brian Krebs has spent months investigating the attack which knocked his blog offline. He claims that the origins of the Mirai botnet can be traced back to [...]

Swiss cops use anti-drone guns at the World Economic Forum

January 19, 2017

Swiss authorities have added another security measure for this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos: anti-drone guns. Bloomberg has spotted local police preparing HP 47 [...]

12 million declassified CIA files are now available online

January 18, 2017

The CIA has posted a vast cache of nearly 12 million declassified CIA pages online, including info on Nazi war crimes, the Cuban Missile Crisis, UFO sightings, human [...]

The government’s public evidence falls short of proving Russian involvement in the DNC hack

January 16, 2017

On Friday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released an updated report on whether or not Russia was responsible for both hacking the Democratic National [...]

Iran censored porn so hard it broke the internet in Hong Kong

January 11, 2017

If you had trouble visiting explicit websites in the last few days, the fault may have come from an unexpected source: Iran. According to a new report from The Verge, a [...]

At Least Nine Ontario Police Agencies Helped Deploy Secret Surveillance Gear

January 5, 2017

At least nine police agencies in Ontario participated in a provincial program to deploy secret surveillance equipment in the province’s largest cities, according to [...]