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Thief jeopardizes state secrets by using nuclear power plant to mine cryptocurrency

Aug22
by on August 22, 2019 at 8:42 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


People will do anything to get their hands on that sweet cryptocurrency including, perhaps one of the most audacious yet, using secret areas in a nuclear power plant to hide and power mining machines. According to a court case, a person with high level access to parts of the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant placed mining machines at one of the plant’s administrative buildings and siphoned electricity from the local grid, RT reports. The mining network created by the individual was connected to the nuclear plant’s intranet. As a result, authorities believe the scheme has compromised the site’s security arrangements,…

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Apple: Don’t keep your precious Apple Card near denim or leather

Aug22
by on August 22, 2019 at 8:35 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


The Apple Card is such a delicate piece of technological wonder it apparently needs its own cleaning instructions. Just kidding: it’s a fucking titanium credit card with fancy coating, which also happens to require a laborious cleaning process. It also turns out it shouldn’t come into contact with denim or leather – or so says Apple. In new guidelines posted on its website, the Cupertino giant says that “[s]ome fabrics, like leather and denim, might cause permanent discoloration that will not wash off.” This basically means that your elegant leather wallet and cool denim jeans’ pockets might not be the best…

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‘Woke’ Lyft hit with 7 sexual assault lawsuits in a day

Aug22
by on August 22, 2019 at 8:32 am
Posted In: Around the Web


On August 1 2019, Lyft was hit with seven sexual assault lawsuits from women who were allegedly raped or assaulted by their drivers — and still charged for their ride, even when reporting the incident to the ridesharing company.  Four of the women suing Lyft said they were raped by their drivers in their own homes, and three others said they were sexually assaulted. In addition to these accusations, multiple women came forward with alleged experiences of harassment and stalking by their Lyft drivers.  Back in 2017, Lyft’s president and co-founder, John Zimmer, described the ridesharing startup as “woke” compared to…

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Cryptojacking malware found in 11 RubyGem language repositories

Aug22
by on August 22, 2019 at 7:20 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Malware designed to surreptitiously infect victims’ computer systems and mine cryptocurrency on behalf of hackers has been found in 11 code libraries on programming language manager RubyGems. Hackers exploited RubyGems – a package manager for the Ruby programming language that devs use to upload and distribute new versions of software – by downloading Ruby libraries, adding the malicious code, and re-uploading them under new names Decrypt reports. Thousands have been exposed to the malicious code, although the exact number remains unclear. It’s also not statedt if hackers have been able to commandeer and cryptocurrency through this specific exploit. GitHub user…

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