Star Wars is a compelling story about a little kid called Anakin Skywalker. Branded ‘the Chosen One’, Anakin is the saga’s messiah who holds great promise to bring balance to the force and ensure peace throughout the galaxy. (SPOILER ALERT) Except he doesn’t quite live up to the hype. In the end, Anakin’s individual complexity, lack […]

Identity theft is a serious problem. Any dead person’s identity can be taken with ease. Criminals use this identity to commit crimes and they easily get away with it. With the incorporation of Blockchain we can put an end to this. Let me explain to you with an example scenario: Let us say that a […]

Japanese financial services giant SBI Group has partnered with a blockchain security startup to develop a digital wallet for its recently launched cryptorrency exchange. The Denmark-based startup, Sepior, announced in a press release Monday that SBI has licensed its proprietary “threshold signature” wallet technology for integration with its VCTRADE exchange to secure “on-line contents and transactions.” VCTRADE was launched in […]

Trouble at Google and Facebook shows how susceptible we are to losing control of our data — by accident or design It’s been over a week since Facebook announced that, thanks to a coding vulnerability, access tokens for at least 50 million* accounts were stolen. Access tokens are important. As Facebook explained in its blog detailing the […]

A few months ago I published an article about the pros and cons of DevOps as a Service. There I mentioned AWS and Google Cloud Platform as the main platforms that are frequently used by DevOps. Why can’t we make a small comparison for them? Sure, there’s also Microsoft Azure among the giants. But I’ll try […]

Brendan Eich, the CEO of decentralized browser Brave, has urged members of the U.S. senate to consider the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as a regulatory model, according to a statement published Oct. 2. In an open letter dated Sept. 29, Eich called on members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, to look to the […]

Facebook said it had fixed the vulnerability since discovering it on Tuesday, and had also informed law enforcement authorities. Facebook said on Friday it found a security flaw in almost 50 million accounts that would allow hackers to take over people’s profiles, a potential additional blow to the social network’s record on privacy. Facebook did […]

Yet another dire security flaw was unveiled Tuesday with potential ripple effects across the tech world, including for cryptocurrency projects seeking to leverage certain hardware devices. Following a pair of bugs unveiled earlier this year, the Foreshadow vulnerability impacts all Intel’s Software Guard Extensions (SGX) enclaves, a special, supposedly extra-secure region of chip often used for storing sensitive […]

A research which studied user data leaks from cryptocurrency exchanges has revealed that Americans are the main targets for cryptocurrency hacks. The study was conducted by Group-IB, a Russian based computer forensics and information security firm, who revealed their findings in a report titled “2018 Cryptocurrency Exchanges-User Accounts Leaks Analysis.” The firm revealed that in 2017, the […]

Google says several of the new productivity and security features in Android 9 Pie are AI-driven and designed to learn from usage patterns, company says. Google’s newly released Android 9 Pie mobile operating system comes with several productivity, security and manageability features that the company says have been specifically designed with enterprise users in mind. […]