Popular Ether Wallet MEW Is Hijacked in DNS Attack MyEtherWallet, a popular web-based wallet for storing and transmitting the cryptocurrency ether (ETH), suffered a DNS attack that rerouted unsuspecting users to a Russian scam site into which some victims fed the…… Read More
Op Ed: We Can Combat Poor Data Privacy with Blockchain Applications By now we’ve all seen the headlines about Facebook’s poor data practices: as many as 87 million users’ personal records affected by Cambridge Analytica, 2.2 billion users’ profiles scraped by third parties, and s…… Read More
New “Know-Your-Transaction” Tool Enables Enhanced Blockchain Investigation Cryptocurrency investigation enterprise Chainalysis is releasing a product called Know Your Transaction (KYT) designed to help businesses track customers that may be involved in illicit cryptocurrency-related act…… Read More
Monero Just Hard Forked — and It Resulted in Four New Projects One hard fork later, there are four new Monero projects.Monero hard forked to version 12 of its protocol yesterday. But not everyone is on board. Following the example once set by Ethereum Classic, some users are…… Read More
Civic and Votem’s Partnership Accelerates Blockchain-Based KYC Process Identity verification is paramount to global freedom and citizen access to public services. We see many examples of this today in terms of how barriers to documentation adversely impact issues like democratic voting processes, especially among homel…… Read More