During MicroStrategy World, Michael Saylor lead a focused discussion on the mega trends of finance he believes make the transition to Bitcoin as a global store of value inevitable. One of the most …
Wallstreetbets’ Denial of Hedge-Funding Hack Could Slow DeFi Boom
Last month’s market anarchy, where two-million-plus (at the time), day-trading individual investors unleashed the peer-to-peer power of social media to crush some of Wall Street’s top hedge funds, may …
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What CEOs Need To Know About Bitcoin: Including potential new business models to consider
Bitcoin is the most famous crypto currency, with good reason. It was the first to leverage the new concept of a blockchain to enable a distributed, but trusted ledger, which for the first time in …
Camila Russo on Ethereum and the Future of Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
This week's OODAcast features an interview with Camila Russo, the author of the book "The Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto-hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum". Camila is also …
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Mitigating The Smart Cities Cybersecurity Challenge
Smart Cities will become a full-scale cyber war battleground unless Congress mandates cybersecurity. The biggest danger in Smart Cities is the assumption that IoT sensors communicating over a 5G …
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Crypto-Hijacking Campaign Leverages New Golang RAT
An emerging operation leverages a new Remote Access Tool (RAT) that is designed to steal crypto-currency from users. Since January 2020, ElectroRAT, as named by Intezer, has been active in a full …
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Federally Chartered Banks and Thrifts May Participate in Independent Node Verification Networks and Use Stablecoins for Payment Activities
Yesterday, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released a letter stating that national banks' and federal savings associations' had the authority to participate in independent node …
Top 10 Security, Technology, and Business Books of 2020
It was a challenging year for my booklist. Beyond just the 2020 pandemic issues, I had a hard time narrowing down on thematic for this year, so the list is even more eclectic than usual. I'm still …
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The Feds Seized $1 Billion in Stolen Silk Road Bitcoins
Seven years after the arrest of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, US law enforcement has also seized $1 billion in bitcoin attached to the operation. Ulbricht's laptop left keys to unlock only a …
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US unveils enforcement framework to combat terrorist, criminal cryptocurrency activities
The US has created a framework for how criminal usage of blockchain technology should be dealt with on behalf of the government. Although the possibilities of blockchain are considered to be some of …