In one episode of the nerdtastic TV sitcom Big Bang Theory , the socially-challenged Caltech physicist antihero, Dr Sheldon Cooper, has his World of Warcraft account hacked. A giant shopping-list of Sheldon's virtual property gets plundered: his wand of untainted power, all his gold, ...
Duck laments some of the vulnerabilities found by researchers at Core Security in popular internet cameras. From hard-coded passwords, through directory traversal vulnerabilities to completely open access to the video stream, these holes don't just affect security, but privacy, too.
"Winning" the next bitcoin in a chain means happening upon a bitstring, or nonce, that when combined with the data in the chain so far, produces a SHA-256 hash with a certain number of leading zeros. The probability of finding such a pattern by chance - and there is no better way know...
Bitcoin is a an open-source, peer-to-peer digital cash system launched in 2009. The Bitcoin "currency" has no physical manifestation - there are no banknotes, metal coins, or promissory notes signed with a flourish. You "mine" Bitcoins synthetically by solving a cryptographic problem....
Four ex-Bitcoin users are suing the coin exchange for $460,000 USD, accusing the now frozen Bitcoin trading platform Bitcoinica for breach of contract and negligence. In 2009, an open-source, peer-to-peer digital cash system launched. Cutely called Bitcoin, it was based on a paper [PD...
