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IDG News Service - Bitcoin is growing up. The virtual currency that caught the public's attention last month when its value zoomed briefly past $200 kicked off its first Silicon Valley conference Friday evening and shows no sign of losing momentum. The event is small by Silicon Valley...
IDG News Service - The largest bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, is in a continuing battle with miscreants trying to manipulate the price of the virtual currency. Early Monday, Mt. Gox wrote on its Facebook page that it was once again struggling with a very large distributed denial-of-servic...
IDG News Service - The largest bitcoin exchange said Thursday it is fighting an intense distributed denial-of-service attack it believes is intended at manipulating the price of virtual currency, which has seen volatile price swings in the past few days. Mt. Gox, which is based in Tok...
IDG News Service - Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox faced a distributed denial-of-service attack late Thursday, at a time the digital currency is seeing an upward swing. The Japanese company, which is rated as the largest exchange for bitcoins, was hit by a DDoS attack that was "stronger than...
IDG News Service - The popular social-news site Reddit said it will now accept bitcoins, following blogging platform WordPress in embracing the four-year-old virtual currency. Reddit, which lets users submit and vote on popular Web content, already uses PayPal and Google Wallet for it...
IDG News Service - The developers of Ruby on Rails, a popular open source Web application development framework for the Ruby programming language, released versions 3.2.10, 3.1.9, and 3.0.18 of the software on Wednesday in order to patch a serious SQL injection vulnerability. "These r...
IDG News Service - Developers of the Ruby on Rails Web development framework released versions 3.0.20 and 2.3.16 of the software on Monday in order to address a critical remote code execution vulnerability. This is the third security update released in January for Ruby on Rails, an in...
IDG News Service - A small New York-based company that specializes in exchanging Bitcoins is back online after hackers stole about $250,000 worth of the virtual currency earlier this month. Roman Shtylman, founder of BitFloor , said by phone from London on Monday he reported the theft...
