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University shuts down its entire network to stop Bitcoin crypto-jackers

Nov07
by on November 7, 2018 at 10:44 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


A Canadian university had to shut down its entire campus network after it discovered hackers had hijacked its computing power to surreptitiously mine cryptocurrency – Bitcoin, to be exact. In a statement released earlier this week, Nova Scotia-based St. Francis Xavier University revealed the hackers snuck in malicious software on its servers to run their crypto-jacking operation. Its technical team first detected the attack last Thursday. “In consultation with security specialists, [we] purposefully disabled all network systems in response to what we learned to be to be an automated attack on our systems known as ‘crytpocoin mining,’” the statement reads.…

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Texan regulator slaps Australian cloud mining firm with cease-and-desist

Nov07
by on November 7, 2018 at 10:40 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


An Australian-based cryptocurrency mining service has been told to cease its operations by regulators from the other side of the globe. The Texas State Securities Board (TSSB) issued an emergency cease-and-desist order yesterday, to Automated Web Services Mining (AWS Mining). Any similarities you might spot in that acronym (cough Amazon Web Services cough) are – hopefully – coincidental. AWS Mining was responsible for a number of subsidiary companies that have also been named and included in the cease-and-desist order. According to the court documents, customers of AWS Mining and its subsidiaries had been promising returns of 200 percent on investments.…

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This Day in Deals: Free headphones (with a Gear S3) to applaud the Stoughton Musical Society

Nov07
by on November 7, 2018 at 9:22 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


This Day In Deals is our new section where we share a historical fact and the day’s best deal – and try to connect them. The aim? To enrich ourselves financially, and you spiritually. Do you know what America’s oldest performing musical organization is? Any guesses? Nope, it’s not Guns N’ Roses. Or De La Soul. And definitely not Maroon 5. It’s… *drum roll please* …the Stoughton Musical Society! Now (catchily) known as the Old Stoughton Musical Society. The organization was formed on November 7 way back in 1786. Since then it has been doing musical things, like singing. And, uhhh……

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20,000 Pakistani debit card details surface on the dark web

Nov07
by on November 7, 2018 at 9:08 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


On Tuesday, Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) said that major banks in the country have suffered a cyber attack affecting more than 20,000 users. “More than 100 cases (of cyber-attack) have been registered with the FIA and are under investigation. We have made several arrests in the case, including that of an international gang last month,” FIA’s director of cybercrime, Mohammad Shoaib, told Geo News. His comments followed a report from Group-IB, a Moscow-based cyber security firm, which stated that a dump of data containing details of Pakistani debit cards was put up on the dark web for sale. However, the…

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New species of dinosaur discovered in Neuquen, Patagonia

Nov07
by on November 7, 2018 at 8:43 am
Posted In: Around the Web, syndication


A Spanish-Argentine collaboration has identified a previously undiscovered species of dinosaur in Neuquén, Patagonia, which would have lived over 110 million years ago. The new dinosaur belongs to the family of Rebbachisauridae, a type of herbivorous quadruped. The fossils discovered were that of an adult of around 10 to 12 meters as well as two young that would have been between six and seven meters long. The Independent reported it was likely the dinosaurs ate leaves and grass, and they traveled and died together. “We found most of the cranial bones: the snout, the jaws, a lot of teeth, also the bones that…

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