Blockwart: Bitcoin Drug Money Laundering Is Highly Centralized

Blockwart: Bitcoin Drug Money Laundering Is Highly Centralized

Blockwart   A joint report by Center on Sanctions & Illicit Finance and Elliptic, a cryptocurrency forensics firm, has indicated that Bitcoin laundering for illicit drug activity is a highly centralized process. The report’s authors, Yaya Fanusi and Tom Robinson, indicate that much of illicit Bitcoin is laundered through mixers, saying: “Mixers have consistently processed…

How 30-day prototyping could solve the US Army’s cyber-buying woes

How 30-day prototyping could solve the US Army’s cyber-buying woes

The idea of buying technology faster, better and more cost-efficiently isn’t new in the government, but the Army believes it can improve its cyber-specific acquisition. In the Army’s program executive office for enterprise information systems, officials in the defense cyber operations program are following a new acquisition strategy, one that takes advantage of a consortium-based…

Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities: Easy-to-Read Description of One of the Worst Security Leaks – All Intel CPUs Since 1995 Affected

Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities: Easy-to-Read Description of One of the Worst Security Leaks – All Intel CPUs Since 1995 Affected

A background on the vulnerabilities: an easy-to-read description of what they are and the immediate and longer-term effects that Meltdown and Spectre will have on the services and software that we rely on. And why having a really secure platform for the 1st time ever (i.e. PoW Blockchain) is such a big deal. — TJACK…

WiFi mesh networks can detect your breathing

WiFi mesh networks can detect your breathing

In the world of indoor security systems, motion detection usually relies on cameras or at least dedicated sensors. Both types of solution add to hardware plus installation costs, not to mention that not everyone is comfortable with having cameras pointing at them all the time. Origin Wireless, on the other hand, found a way to…

“Buy Smarter and Faster”: Russia is pushing the [US] Army to move faster on electronic warfare

“Buy Smarter and Faster”: Russia is pushing the [US] Army to move faster on electronic warfare

When Army leaders in Europe needed advanced electronic warfare capabilities, they decided they couldn’t wait for years under the current trajectory of the Army’s official program schedule. Instead, they asked the service to develop a faster solution, one that’s now known as Raven Claw 1 and incorporates facets of the existing program called Electronic Warfare…

Patent Filing: Boeing Eyes Blockchain in Bid to Fight GPS Spoofing

Patent Filing: Boeing Eyes Blockchain in Bid to Fight GPS Spoofing

A new patent filing from Boeing suggests that the aircraft manufacturing giant is looking at how blockchain can help protect in-flight GPS receivers. In a patent application released last Thursday by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the developer of the world’s most popular airliner details an “onboard backup and anti-spoofing GPS system” that would…

Researchers Reveal First-Ever Complete Quantum Chip Architecture

Researchers Reveal First-Ever Complete Quantum Chip Architecture

Researchers at the University of New South Wales have revealed an architectural structure that solves some of the stability issues that are facing quantum computing scientists, according to a recent report. The new architecture, which the report compared in significance to landing a man on the Moon, utilizes currently available processors to organize how each…

Former dDoS & Malware ‘ButterFly’ Botmaster, ‘Darkode’ Founder is CTO of Hacked Slovenian Bitcoin Mining Firm ‘NiceHash’

Former dDoS & Malware ‘ButterFly’ Botmaster, ‘Darkode’ Founder is CTO of Hacked Slovenian Bitcoin Mining Firm ‘NiceHash’

NiceHash CTO Matjaž Škorjanc, as pictured on the front page of a recent edition of the Slovenian daily Delo.si On Dec. 6, 2017, approximately USD $52 million worth of Bitcoin mysteriously disappeared from the coffers of NiceHash, a Slovenian company that lets users sell their computing power to help others mine virtual currencies. As the…