To help members optimize opportunities and reduce risk, OODA hosts a monthly video call to discuss items of common interest to our membership. These highly collaborative sessions are always a great …
Want to trade NFTs? Best beware the risks
NFTs are being traded and have sometimes sold online for astronomical sums, with major companies now joining the craze as the tokens find their way into everything from the art market to video …
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Scammers grabbed $7.7 billion worth of cryptocurrency in 2021
According to blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis, cryptocurrency based scammers and cybercriminals stole $7.7 billion worth of cryptocurrency from victims in 2021. Chainalysis reports that the 2021 …
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DeFi Series: What Is a Smart Contract?
Bitcoin may be the largest and best-known cryptocurrency, but other than it — and few other pure cash-replacements coins like litecoin, and stablecoins like tether and USD coin — every token runs on a …
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When in the Gray Zone with Vladamir Putin in Ukraine, DoD and IC Hybrid Warfare Innovation Will Prove Vital
https://youtu.be/bg6iF5dr1AI Source: A Conversation with The Honorable Michael Vickers on Modernizing Intelligence for the Gray Zone While Europe and Russia may appear to be on the brink of …
The New Normal? Unique New Responses to Massive, Global Cyber Theft, Data Breach and Espionage Activities (Part 2 of 3)
In Part I of this series of posts, we broke down the timeline and impact of the massive Syniverse Hack, including the most recent development in the aftermath of the massive five-year-long data …
Congress gets a crash course on cryptocurrency.
The chief executives of six cryptocurrency companies are testifying on Wednesday before the House Financial Services Committee about the promises, perils and uses of stablecoins, or cryptocurrencies …
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Welcome to ‘Web3.’ What’s That?
At the start of 2020, a Bitcoin was worth just over $7,000. Today, it’s trading at about $50,000, and the value of all cryptocurrencies, of which Bitcoin is one among many, is some $2.3 trillion. This …
Google Takes Down Glupteba Botnet; Files Lawsuit Against Operators
Google's Threat Analysis Group has taken down the blockchain-enabled botnet known as Glupteba, which consists of roughly 1 million compromised Windows and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Glupteba is …
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Facing The Chasm: The Future Of Bitcoin And The Metaverse
We tend to think of the world as the past, present and future, and as these distinguished moments in time. However, we intuitively know that this is not the case. Instead, we are always in a state of …
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