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A CEO from Ohio has pleaded guilty to being the operator of a darknet-based Bitcoin ‘mixer’ service that laundered more than $300m Akron resident and CEO of Bitcoin media site Coin Ninja Larry Dean Harmon was at the helm of underground cryptocurrency laundering service Helix for three years, from 2014 to 2017.  During that time, the 38-year-old creator of crypto-wallet provider DropBit conspired with darknet vendors to launder over 350,000 Bitcoin generated through drug trafficking and other illegal activities. Helix partnered with…

ThroughTek’s Kalay is used to manage security cameras, baby monitors, DVRs and more. A newly discovered flaw lets attackers watch, listen and steal recordings from hardware sold by dozens of vendors. Getty Images/iStockphoto Kalay, a P2P IoT protocol developed by Taiwanese company ThroughTek, has a serious security problem: Remote attackers are able to exploit it in order to give them total, yet nearly invisible, control over devices using the protocol. The problem isn’t a minor…

American banking and financial services company JPMorgan Chase is warning customers in Montana that a technical glitch may have presented their personal data to other customers. The malfunction allowed users of the website chase.com or the Chase Mobile app to view the banking information of other customers whose personal details were similar for nearly two months earlier this year.  Data that may have been compromised included customers’ names, account numbers, account balances, and details of their transactions. …

Hackers have stolen data from a Salford-based social housing group that houses thousands of tenants and other clients. ForHousing and Liberty, which manages and maintains homes across the North West, were reportedly victims of a ransomware attack. The group confirmed that no data of tenants or staff were accessed, but a ‘small amount’ of data was compromised, which resulted in the systems being taken offline as a precautionary measure.  Ransomware is a type of malware that…

With 40 million people having their SSN exposed during the T-Mobile hack, it’s time to reconsider the usefulness of the Social Security number. Image: Lane V. Erickson/Shutterstock It has been a tough week for news, with a series of negative headlines on everything from a COVID resurgence to Afghanistan. In what might have been a more prominent story, mobile phone carrier T-Mobile acknowledged that nearly 50 million customers had personal data stolen, with more than…