A company who has been the victim of repeated ransomware attacks has agreed to pay an incredible $1m. By paying the ransom it is their hope to regain access to 3,400 customer ...
June 21, 2017 at 1:52 pm by Mike Sanders
Ethereum mining has caused a massive spike in the demand for AMD Radeon cards. The rush has even seen stock levels wiped out in some areas as AMD stock rallies from a recent ...
June 7, 2017 at 12:48 pm by Mike Sanders
If you sent a message back in time 1 year, what advice would you give yourself? Don’t take that person out on a date? Don’t reject that job offer? Personally, I ...
May 21, 2017 at 5:37 pm by Mike Sanders
BIOSTAR has just revealed their latest AM4 Motherboards, which have been designed for the Bitcoin-mining market. The two boards are the AM4 TA 320-BTC and the TB350-BTC, each ...
May 2, 2017 at 9:07 am by Peter Donnell
Bram Cohen, the inventor of BitTorrent, has vowed to launch his own cryptocurrency in an effort to combat what he calls the “waste” associated with ...
April 26, 2017 at 8:30 pm by Ashley Allen
Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom has fulfilled his promise to resurrect his Megaupload cloud storage and file sharing site, and his new iteration is powered by Bitcoin. Dotcom ...
April 4, 2017 at 4:51 pm by Ashley Allen
A four-star hotel in Austria was forced to pay ransom worth thousands of Bitcoins after hackers took control of its electronic locking system, preventing guests from either ...
January 29, 2017 at 6:44 pm by Ashley Allen
A new ransomware is offering infected users the chance to regain access to their locked computers without paying by sending the malicious software to infect other ...
December 12, 2016 at 5:00 am by Ashley Allen
Earlier this week, a team of hackers leaked information on cyber weapons that were linked to the NSA. The team hoped to raise lots of cash by offering to release even more ...
August 19, 2016 at 8:45 pm by Peter Donnell
With millions traded every day through systems that rely on both the technology and the people acting to secure the environments they trade in, theft can happen. With banks ...
August 3, 2016 at 11:27 am by Gareth Andrews
A massive cryptocurrency heist, worth $79 million, could threaten the future of blockchains. On Friday (17th June), the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) – a kind ...
June 19, 2016 at 7:20 pm by Ashley Allen
When it comes to cryptocurrency, there is only really one that anyone speaks about. Bitcoin is a digital currency that has found itself in turbulent times recently. With ...
May 31, 2016 at 12:00 pm by Gareth Andrews
Ransomware is getting nastier and nastier. Initially just an attempt to turn malicious software (malware) into something that is financially rewarding, ransomware works by ...
March 28, 2016 at 9:00 pm by Gareth Andrews
Just over a year on from its introduction, Microsoft has quietly pulled Bitcoin support from the Microsoft Store. While the company has not made an official statement ...
March 14, 2016 at 4:30 pm by Ashley Allen
The Bitcoin exchange portal Bitstamp warned users over the weekend that a Google Chrome browser extension had been caught stealing Bitcoin and users should avoid the ...
March 14, 2016 at 9:00 am by Bohs Hansen
