A Starter Guide to Security Vulnerabilities & Illusions in ICO Projects. “A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.” S. Bellow The new flavour of money is digital crypto-token currencies. Investors and crypto-currency enthusiasts place huge investments into ICOs. Some of…

Abstract Greek! Data breaches and data loss is one of the most common and costly problems that organizations of all sizes faces every day. And with today’s data being transferred among business networks, the cloud, mobile devices, and BYOD, data breaches have steadily been on the rise. Recent studies conducted…

A Story in a layman’s Term — Simple Explanation of Complex Technology Beautiful Mrs. Blockchain meets Mr. Log — who keeps records of all transactions that was ever verified on Bitcoin Network. [please remember that Bitcoin is the entire system ‘B’ when the transactions are executed and ‘b’ bitcoin is…

The Blockchain is the underlying technology supporting digital currencies like Bitcoin; it’s a decentralized platform that securely processes transactions through encryption[1]. Since this technology cannot be owned by any one person, company, or entity, and each user has the ability to view or access the state of Blockchain at any…

Banks all over the world are looking into the applications for blockchain technology. Even here in the United States, banks are checking out the uses for blockchain in banking. India Earlier this year, India’s Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology reported that its pilot project using a blockchain platform…

Complex Ransomware… Description: Several information report this ransomware as a variant of Petya and Misha (also known as GoldenEye). The actual main targets are in Ukraine and Russia. Only few sample have been recently detected in France. Affected countries: UK, Ukraine, India, the Netherlands, Spain, Denmark, and others. There are…

What is Ransomware? Why is t so effective? Countermeasures… Ransomware is a type of malware that infects computer systems, restricting users’ access to the infected systems. Ransomware variants have been observed for several years and often attempt to extort money from victims by displaying an on-screen alert. Typically, these alerts state that the user’s systems have been locked or…

Cryptocurrency and Financial Crime… “They desire to own what you have with you, which they don’t have… Don’t give them.” Do you know that just by playing subtitles of a movie from an unknown subtitle file can hack your system? A text message can hack your oven? Word file can…

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