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Security News for the Week Ending September 22, 2023

Dallas Mavericks Owner and Crypto Guru lost $1M to Scam Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who fancies himself a crypto guru just got a crypto wallet drained of about a million bucks. He says that he may have downloaded a fake version of a crypto wallet app. Oh, well, so now instead of being a […]

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Security News for the Week Ending December 2, 2022

Cryptocurrency Collapse Continues Cryptocurrency lender and financial firm BlockFi filed for bankruptcy as the Ponzi scheme called Cryptocurrency continues its uncontrolled collapse. FTX was supposed to bail them out, but guess what – that is unlikely to happen. Withdrawals are “paused” for now, another term for you are screwed. Also remember that if you have […]

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Putin Thinks Crypto is the Solution – So Do I, but for a Different Reason

Putin is dealing with the reality of the worldwide financial sanctions crippling his economy. His solution is to create a financial system based on distributed finance or DiFi. An example is cryptocurrency. Using DiFi, Putin thinks he can get around sanctions. There are, of course, a couple of holes in this logic. First, who besides […]

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The Biggest Cryptocurrency Meltdown Yet

I report about crypto exchange hacks every week, so what is different here? Crypto Exchange FTX filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy the day after it said everything is fine. There are more than 130 investors involved. Or should I call them suckers? Okay, end of editorial. While Chapter 11 allows a company to “reorganize”, it […]

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NFTs are Even Less Secure than Cryptocurrency – is that even Possible?

First of all you have to figure out what an NFT is. Here is what Forbes says about it: An NFT is a digital asset that represents real-world objects like art, music, in-game items and videos. They are bought and sold online, frequently with cryptocurrency, and they are generally encoded with the same underlying software as […]

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So You THINK You Own Your Cryptocurrency

Voyager Digital is a cryptocurrency “bank”. It isn’t regulated like a bank, which a problem for users. The have debit cards and make loans. They trade crypto. Accept deposits. They also offered insane “rewards” (12%) so they could invest in the crypto space. In order to fuel these crazy payouts, they had to make risky […]

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