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3 Jul 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Coinpaper
Beosin reports more instances of rug pulls in H1 2023 totaling nearly $76 million compared to the number of hacks responsible for nearly $470 million in losses. On June 30, blockchain security firm Beosin posted its H1 2023 Web3 Security Statistics r...
26 Jun 2023 1 minute read 1 comment LiteLiger
Building an Understanding of Smart Contracts Smart contract security is an essential aspect of blockchain technology, specifically associated with decentralized applications (DApps) and platforms. Smart contracts are self-executing agreements writte...
26 Jan 2023 1 minute read 1 comment Crypto_Clem_Fandangogo
Ladies and gentlemen, gather 'round and listen up, for I, Clem Fandango, have a tale to tell ya. It's a tale of mischief and mayhem, of hackers and heists, and most importantly, of the sweet, sweet fruit that is the mango. You see, there's a little p...
26 Jan 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Crypto_Clem_Fandangogo
Clem here, with a hot topic straight from the headlines! It seems that North Korea is taking crypto theft to a whole new level, using the stolen funds to buy missiles and fund their nuclear program. The FBI has fingered the Lazarus Group, a hacking o...
6 Jan 2023 1 minute read 21 comments I_g_o_r
A recent hack of LastPass (see [1-3]) again highlighted the problem with passwords stored in encrypted files. These files can be hacked, stolen, damaged, corrupted, confiscated, etc. A simple solution to this problem is to use dynamical passwords gen...
5 Jan 2023 1 minute read 9 comments I_g_o_r
Recent hacks of PayPal, Norton, LastPass (see [1-4]) forced many users to look for passwords not stored in any place such as generated on demand passwords, dynamical passwords, stateless passwords, etc. These passwords are not stored in any place, th...
22 Aug 2022 2 minute read 0 comments kev_nag
“On August 18th, the world’s largest Bitcoin ATM manufacturer, General Bytes discovered a security flaw. Hackers used a zero-day vulnerability to create an admin user account through the CAS admin panel. This resulted in Bitcoins being siphoned off b...
25 Jul 2022 3 minute read 5 comments Cje95
Since it broke into the mainstream Bitcoin and crypto overall has really done as much as they can to clean up the image of being only used by criminals for illicit goods and services. Sadly it is still something that the industry has to struggle with...
14 Jun 2022 1 minute read 0 comments wabinab
We have heard about the 51% attacks on validator nodes. It's when more than or equal to 50% of the validator nodes are controlled by hackers, whom could then control transactions, including reversing a transaction. But 51% attacks doesn't occur just...
25 Apr 2022 5 minute read 0 comments bengy
Sometimes, annoying tech problems have annoyingly stupidly simple (and physical) solutions. As a bit of a tech nerd, I generally tend to go a bit more in for the more trickier fixes... but sometimes, I need to be reminded that there are simple...
