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If you’re curious about the original decentralized cryptocurrency, here’s what you need to know about Bitcoin, including why the price of a bitcoin keeps climbing. Image: Tsokur, Getty Images You’ve probably heard of Bitcoin—it’s a digital currency that doesn’t need a central bank, functions internationally and keeps gaining value. Everyone wants a piece, but not everyone understands what it is. Bitcoins are valuable, at least right now. There are a lot of guesses as to…

A lawsuit has been filed by Nintendo of America against the alleged leader of an international video game piracy group. Canadian national Gary Bowser was arrested in October last year on suspicion of heading a criminal enterprise called Team Xecuter that the United States Department of Justice said created and sold illegal hacking devices.  The circumvention devices enabled users to hack popular video game consoles, including the Nintendo Switch, the Nintendo 3DS, and the Nintendo Entertainment System Classic Edition,…

By Laurent Celerier, EVP Technology & Marketing There is no question that COVID-19 has had far reaching and long-lasting impacts on the way people do things, not least the way we work. Almost half (48%) of employees now work remotely or in a hybrid way, combining working in the office and working from home, according to a survey from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). The transition from workplace to residence has, in the most part,…

An investigation has been launched after cyber-criminals targeted one of the 30 teams in America’s National Basketball Association.  Cybersecurity experts hired by the Houston Rockets are working closely with the Federal Bureau of Investigation to determine the precise nature and extent of the security incident. Reuters reports that an unknown attacker tried to install ransomware on the basketball franchise’s internal computer systems but was largely unsuccessful. “The Rockets organization recently detected suspicious activity on certain systems in…

Someone with the right know-how can obtain your phone number and email address when you try to share a file from your iPhone, say researchers at the University of Darmstadt. iPhone users with AirDrop enabled may unknowingly expose certain personal information to a complete stranger. In a report released last week, researchers at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Darmstadt in Germany revealed their discovery of a security hole in Apple’s AirDrop….

The United States is to launch a dedicated joint cyber center to promote integration between US Space Command and US Cyber Command. News of the center was shared by the commander of US Cyber Command, General James Dickinson, during a 2022 fiscal budget hearing with US Strategic Command and Space Command last week.  “We are standing up a joint cyber center within the command as we speak,” said Dickinson. Detailing what else was in the works for space and…

If you’re like me, you love a good heist film. Movies like The Italian Job, Inception, and Ocean’s 11 are riveting, but outside of cinema these types of heists don’t really happen anymore, right? Think again. In 2019, the Green Vault Museum in Dresden, Germany reported a jewel burglary worthy of its own film. On November 25, 2019 at 4am, the Berlin Clan Network started a fire that destroyed the museum’s power box, disabling some…

A former IT pro turned end user explains why blending your work and personal tech was, is and always will be a bad idea for you and your employer. In the age of remote work, it’s easier than ever to blur the lines between our personal and professional tech. Maybe it’s sending personal texts or emails from your work phone, editing personal documents or photos on your work laptop, or joining a virtual happy hour…

E-commerce fraud is set to spike 18% from 2020-2021 to top $20 billion globally this year, according to the latest research from Juniper Research. The value of online losses will grow from around $17.5 billion in 2020 as scammers continue to target the growing number of internet shoppers forced online by the pandemic. According to the new report, Online Payment Fraud: Emerging Threats, Segment Analysis & Market Forecasts 2021-2025 Market Research, merchants are increasingly on the…

Republicans in Arizona still smarting after Joe Biden’s win there have hired a little-known cybersecurity consultancy to perform an election ‘audit’ in the state’s most populous county, according to reports. Florida-based Cyber Ninjas has no previous experience in managing election recounts and is run by a man who has shared conspiracy theories online about the supposed illegitimacy of the US election results last November, according to The Guardian. The report cited Doug Logan as claiming his…