Crypto
Selling It: Crypto Edition
Here is a crypto version of “Selling It,” a long-running back-page column in the magazine Consumer Reports. For those unsure of the acronyms, “SHA-256” stands for a version of the Secure Hash ...
U.S. Treasury Sanctions Russian Hackers for Stealing $17 Million in Crypto Cash
This week, U.S. authorities sanctioned two Russian nationals for defrauding several cryptocurrency exchanges of a combined $17 million. The duo, who had several other accomplices, used phishing schemes to meet their goals, ...
Cryptocurrency Exchange Eterbase Loses $5.4 Million to Hackers Overnight
A group of hackers on Monday night compromised cryptocurrency exchange Eterbase and raided six hot wallets to steal $5.4 million in Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Tezos, Algorand, and TRON. The criminals transferred the ...
What About GandCrab’s $2 Billion? Ransomware Operators Pocketed Only $140 Million Over Six Years, FBI Calculates
Ryuk, Dharma, Bitpaymer, SamSam and other prominent ransomware strains have generated hundreds of millions of dollars for their authors, according to calculations by the FBI. Does that mean the GandCrab gang, which ...
Video: All Things CTF!
Find Fame, Fortune and Fun with CTFs! Video and Slide Deck from EH-Net Live! November 2019 Games are fun. They’re meant to be that way. Games can also teach us valuable lessons ...
WPA2 Packet Frame Format
Wireless Protected Access, Version 2 (WPA2) is the version of Wi-Fi security used in most cases today. This diagram illustrates the general layout of the security data used by WPA2. There’s a ...
Ex-Amazon worker suspected of hacking Capital One, faces charges of breaching 30 other companies to mine cryptocurrency
At the end of July, the FBI arrested a 33-year-old woman in Seattle in connection with a massive data breach at financial services firm Capital One. 33-year-old software engineer Paige Thompson, who ...
Nuclear plant workers in Ukraine caught using “free” energy to mine cryptocurrency
Despite losing some steam in recent times, the cryptocurrency mining craze is still alive and kicking. Ukrainian local media reports that workers at a nuclear power plant have been caught mining cryptocurrency ...
Hackers steal $32 million from Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Bitpoint
Trading crypto currency may land you a fortune overnight, but there are plenty of risks involved. Like forgetting the password to your wallet. Or someone hacking your computer to steal your funds ...
Ease Me Into Cryptography Part 4: TLS – Applied Cryptographic Foundations
You made it to part 4! Here’s a quick overview of what we have broken down so far. We started with some basic vocabulary for cryptographic building blocks and talked about hash ...
