Security

Unikeys has unveiled a biometric cryptocurrency card that you can verify each transaction with your biometric data. It's a huge step in the battle against fraud and could be rolled out across the industry before too long. The company is…

Yassin Hankir does not pause when he talks. The founder of Savedroid, a German payments startup, doesn't punctuate his sentences with umms, or aahs: he speaks in declaratives, with clarity and purpose. Only once during our 40-minute…

Three exchanges have announced they will be beginning to resume normal service for ERC-20 tokens after a bug-scare earlier today led many exchanges to immediately suspend deposits and withdrawals.In the past couple of hours, Coinone,…

Dashlane, an application that manages passwords and digital wallets, has discovered that cryptocurrency exchange security is far weaker than most large tech companies: over 70 percent of crypto exchanges leave users’ accounts exposed to…

Ransomware attacks demanding cryptocurrency payments have been on the rise, striking police stations, hospitals, and (most recently) the city of Atlanta, Georgia. But no locale is suffering as much, say researchers, as South Korea.Now a…

Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, temporarily froze withdrawals today after a suspected API hack sold off customer coins to buy a previously little-known coin, VIA, at a massively-inflated price.UPDATE: Binance has posted an…

Several nuclear scientists working at the Federal Nuclear Centre in Sarov, Russia have been arrested for attempting to use the facility’s supercomputer to mine bitcoin, a process known as 'cryptojacking'. The BBC reports the Federal Nuclear…

The advent of the blockchain revolution and the development of cryptocurrency has generated an entirely new asset class, heavily disrupted incumbent financial institutions, and minted new crypto-millionaires... but it’s also created an…

The ICO ecosystem has been rocked by a large scale phishing attack in which investors eager to participate in promising home sharing startup BEE Token’s crowdsale were duped out of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Ethereum.In…

When buying Bitcoin, there are a variety of payment methods you can use - many of them unsatisfactory, such as Western Union, and even more inconvenient methods. However, you can do bank transfers through LocalBitcoins. The system is…

They are the stuff of nightmares. If you don't already know this one simple truth about lost bitcoins, now is a great time to learn it - once they're gone, they're pretty much gone for good.For many, that's a dealbreaker. If it wasn't…