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Samsung says smartphones have the best security for cryptocurrency, security experts disagree

Aug02
by on August 2, 2018 at 3:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


With more than $761 million in cryptocurrency thefts this year alone, security has become a hot topic in blockchain tech. But what exactly is the best way to store your digital assets on decentralized networks? If you ask Samsung, the answer might be your smartphone. But if you ask a bunch of security experts, things get a lot more complicated. In a blog post published on its Insights platform last month, Samsung suggested that “smartphones have the best security for blockchain and cryptocurrency.” The research went mostly unnoticed, until last week when it was suddenly picked up by several cryptocurrency…

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Samsung says smartphones have the best security for cryptocurrency, security experts disagree

Aug02
by on August 2, 2018 at 3:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


With more than $761 million in cryptocurrency thefts this year alone, security has become a hot topic in blockchain tech. But what exactly is the best way to store your digital assets on decentralized networks? If you ask Samsung, the answer might be your smartphone. But if you ask a bunch of security experts, things get a lot more complicated. In a blog post published on its Insights platform last month, Samsung suggested that “smartphones have the best security for blockchain and cryptocurrency.” The research went mostly unnoticed, until last week when it was suddenly picked up by several cryptocurrency…

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Telegram Passport is already drawing fire for not being secure enough

Aug02
by on August 2, 2018 at 3:08 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork, Insider


The first piece of blockchain-related tech from Telegram was shown off last week, but experts are claiming that its just waiting to be hacked. Telegram Passport is meant to be a secure way of managing identity documents. It pegs itself as being able to provide a “unified authorization method” that makes supplying services (like ICOs and exchanges) with real world IDs more straightforward. But there’s a massive spanner in the works: researchers say they have found Telegram Passport to be completely vulnerable to brute force attacks. Software security firm Virgil Security have released analysis, spotted by CoinDesk, that claims certain design…

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Telegram Passport is already drawing fire for not being secure enough

Aug02
by on August 2, 2018 at 3:08 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork, Insider


The first piece of blockchain-related tech from Telegram was shown off last week, but experts are claiming that its just waiting to be hacked. Telegram Passport is meant to be a secure way of managing identity documents. It pegs itself as being able to provide a “unified authorization method” that makes supplying services (like ICOs and exchanges) with real world IDs more straightforward. But there’s a massive spanner in the works: researchers say they have found Telegram Passport to be completely vulnerable to brute force attacks. Software security firm Virgil Security have released analysis, spotted by CoinDesk, that claims certain design…

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Telegram Passport is already drawing fire for not being secure enough

Aug02
by on August 2, 2018 at 3:08 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork, Insider


The first piece of blockchain-related tech from Telegram was shown off last week, but experts are claiming that its just waiting to be hacked. Telegram Passport is meant to be a secure way of managing identity documents. It pegs itself as being able to provide a “unified authorization method” that makes supplying services (like ICOs and exchanges) with real world IDs more straightforward. But there’s a massive spanner in the works: researchers say they have found Telegram Passport to be completely vulnerable to brute force attacks. Software security firm Virgil Security have released analysis, spotted by CoinDesk, that claims certain design…

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