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Cryptography startup sues Black Hat conference after getting booed and heckled

Aug26
by on August 26, 2019 at 1:36 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, Hard Fork


Tech conferences are usually civil by nature, but one cryptography startup is taking things up a notch by suing organizers of security conference Black Hat USA after being heckled and booed by attendees. The case emerged following last month’s edition of the event in which digital identity startup, Crown Stirling, was heckled during its presentation of the paper titled “Discovery of Quasi-Prime Numbers: What Does this Mean for Encryption,” Ars Technica reports. The paper was authored by Crown Sterling CEO, Robert E. Grant, and co-authored by Talal Ghannam. The paper itself is fairly light, just five pages long and focuses on…

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Podcast: How bank data analysis helps fight modern slavery

Aug26
by on August 26, 2019 at 1:29 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Future of Finance


Since 2014, more than 40 million people have been victimized by human trafficking. To understand how massive that number actually is, look at this map of Europe for a few seconds: The number of human trafficking victims globally is as many as the inhabitants of Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Croatia, and Hungary combined. While human trafficking is often associated with (illegal) prostitution, about 25 million of these 40 million victims end up in labor exploitation situations — working in nail salons, nursery gardens, and restaurant kitchens, to name a few examples. One unique characteristic sets this group apart from other…

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Review: Control is the X-Files-style Metroidvania I’ve always wanted

Aug26
by on August 26, 2019 at 12:59 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


Growing up, summers were notoriously bad for new video game releases. We were forced to spend our holidays playing old games, because game publishers were scared to release their best titles during the big break.  Fortunately, that’s no longer the case. This year’s summer has been especially great, with titles like the phenomenal Fire Emblem: Three Houses (for the Nintendo Switch) and Dragon Quest Builders 2 (for Switch and PS4). I’m happy to report that Remedy Entertainment’s Control (for PS4, Xbox One and PC) can easily hang with those summer hits. Finnish developer Remedy is best known for Max Payne, first…

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Aug26
by on August 26, 2019 at 12:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Offers


If 7 in 10 business types are just hoping digital marketing works out, well, that leaves a lot of room for success to those other 3 out of 10, right? You can be part of that schooled minority with the help of the RankTools Pro SEO Tool. Right now, you can score lifetime access to this invaluable app for only $29.99, more than 90 percent off the retail price, from TNW Deals.

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Hostinger’s database of 14 million customers’ info hacked

Aug26
by on August 26, 2019 at 11:32 am
Posted In: Around the Web


Web hosting provider Hostinger has forcibly reset all of its client passwords as a “precautionary measure” following an unauthorized access of its customer database, which contains some 14 million users. “During this incident, an unauthorized third party has gained access to our internal system API, one of which had access to hashed passwords and other non-financial data about our customers,” the Lithuania-based company said. Hostinger — founded in 2004 — has over 29 million users across 178 countries. The security incident is said to have come to light on August 23, when it was alerted to a breach of one its…

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