theft
Coinbase stopped scammers from stealing an extra $280,000 during Twitter hack
Maybe Coinbase should send Twitter an invoice, because it certainly sounds like their quick thinking helped prevent last week’s hack from leaving a lot more Twitter users with empty wallets. As we ...
USB Cable Kill Switch for Laptops
BusKill is designed to wipe your laptop (Linux only) if it is snatched from you in a public place: The idea is to connect the BusKill cable to your Linux laptop on ...
Security and the Open Office Environment
Once upon a time, employees spent their days in offices or cubicles, in their own space apart from other employees. Today it’s much different, with employees working in open-plan offices, where large, ...
Details of the Cloud Hopper Attacks
Reuters has a long article on the Chinese government APT attack called Cloud Hopper. It was much bigger than originally reported. The hacking campaign, known as "Cloud Hopper," was the subject of ...
Cryptocurrency Malware App Discovered In Googleplay
Another reason to avoid the Androidsphere: Poor Store Governance ...
Banks Attacked through Malicious Hardware Connected to the Local Network
Kaspersky is reporting on a series of bank hacks -- called DarkVishnya -- perpetrated through malicious hardware being surreptitiously installed into the target network: In 2017-2018, Kaspersky Lab specialists were invited to ...
Thievery in The USA & UK: The Self-Checkout First-World Miscreant
Apparently, a first-world problem has arisen: An unexpeteced outcome in an effort to realize efficiences at scale ...
Inside Job Behind Theft of $3M from Bitcoin Exchange, Says CEO
The chief executive officer of a Bitcoin exchange believes the theft of more than $3 million from the platform was an inside job. On 12 April, the team behind Coinsecure replaced the ...
New Scam Targeting Corporations’ Chip Cards, Warns Secret Service
The United States Secret Service is warning of a new scam in which thieves are targeting the chip-based debit cards issued to corporations. As reported by Brian Krebs, the scam involves criminals ...
Tracing Stolen Bitcoin
Ross Anderson has a really interesting paper on tracing stolen bitcoin. From a blog post: Previous attempts to track tainted coins had used either the "poison" or the "haircut" method. Suppose I ...
