Category: Security

TKIP employs a per-packet key, meaning that it dynamically generates a new 128-bit key for each packet and thus prevents the types of attacks that compromised WEP. The Wi-Fi alliance announced the release of WPA3 inJanuary, which presented a new stan…

There currently are over 800 alternative cryptocurrencies, called Altcoins, such as Ethereum, Ripple and Litecoin. I’ve had the worst investment in cryptocurrency when I just got to know cryptocurrency. Since most read about investing in cryptocurren…

This means that so long as your recovery phrase is the same, the calculation of the private keys will always have the same result. You can read more about how applications calculate the private keys for each cryptocurrency here. You can’t extract the…

Instead, altcoin exchanges require that you deposit cryptocurrency FIRST and then you can trade the cryptocurrency you deposited for other coins and altcoins (any coin other than bitcoin). So, you’re looking to start trading cryptocurrency but are un…

The Winklevoss twins are focused on building an ecosystem to attract institutional investors and day traders to the cryptocurrency. To that end, they launched Gemini, the world’s first regulated exchange for cryptocurrencies. The exchange is used to …

Inputs.io, an Australian wallet service, was hacked twice in October 2013 and lost more than $1 million in bitcoins. GBL, a Chinese bitcoin trading platform, suddenly shut down on 26 October 2013; subscribers, unable to log in, lost up to $5 million …

One virus, spread through the Pony botnet, was reported in February 2014 to have stolen up to $220,000 in cryptocurrencies including bitcoins from 85 wallets. Security company Trustwave, which tracked the malware, reports that its latest version was …

The Ledger Nano S is a cryptocurrency hardware wallet, to be more specific you can store your Bitcoins, Ethereum and pretty much any other altcoins on this hardware wallet. Hardware wallets are probably the most robust form of security you can have f…