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The FBI executed a search warrant against a 16-year-old Massachusetts resident in connection with the massive Twitter breach.According to a New York Times report, on Sept. 1 authorities raided the home of a 16-year-old boy who may have played an “equal, if not more significant role” in the infamous July
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Next time your phone rings and the caller ID says it’s your bank, telecom company or employer’s IT department, it might be someone else. That’s because little-discussed types of SIM cards offer the ability to spoof any number, can be encrypted and in some cases allows the user’s voice to be
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More than 1,000 Twitter employees and contractors had access to the internal admin panel that enabled last week’s Twitter hack of 130 high profile accounts.According to Reuters on July 24, two former employees have shed light on just how vulnerable Twitter’s security was — and may still be. They said
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Cybersecurity experts are warning that the Twitter hack on July 15 shows that the social network needs to strengthen its security in order to avoid a worse black swan scenario with serious consequences.In the most recent incident, attackers launched a crypto giveaway scam by posting phishing messages through the hijacked
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Another week, another round of Crypto Tidbits. It’s been another boring week for Bitcoin. This may sound like a broken record at this point, but it’s true. As the chart below shows, the leading cryptocurrency has again been stuck in the low-$9,000s for days on end, failing to react to news events
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Twitter’s thin veil of security went into full meltdown at 19:00 UTC on Wednesday. Within minutes, an apparently coordinated hack began: A mass takeover of the most prominent names in crypto began. Within hours, even Barack Obama’s account was compromised. The messages pumped a bitcoin giveaway scam associated with an organization called
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Some of the top altcoins by market capitalization, such as Ethereum, have been posting significant gains lately. Meanwhile, Bitcoin remains stagnant within a narrow trading range.The flagship cryptocurrency is consolidating between $8,800 and $10,080 since late April without giving any clear signs of where it is headed next.One of the
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Twitter has placed a warning above a tweet posted by Donald Trump for violating its rules on “glorifying violence.” The warning comes after the social network fact-checked two other Trump tweets, while Trump threatened to regulate social media sites in retaliation. But Twitter isn’t backing off, and Trump is
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Jack Dorsey, CEO of Square and Twitter, is in the midst of a battle with Elliot Management after the activist hedge fund secured a four percent stake in the company in a bid to make some changes. Paul Singer, the founder of Elliot Management, believes Dorsey is holding Twitter back
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Twitter’s Bitcoin emoji has been introduced. This has generated lots of excitement within the crypto space. Twitter’s cryptocurrency community has been on fire as the Bitcoin symbol has been trending. However, it could have been rather expectable. Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey has been known to be a Bitcoin fan for
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