The Gov't Really, Really Wants You to Visit These Websites (Op-Ed)
In a campaign that's received nearly as much effort and funding as presidential elections themselves, the U.S. federal government is trying to steer people toward visiting sites that give step-by-step instructions on how to encrypt digital communications. The passage of the USA Freedom Act, the declassified documentation about the NSA's secret sister agency NSAC, and the passage of “net neutrality” have all been cleverly orchestrated to deliver one resounding message: “Just a friendly reminder, citizen: it's time to protect yourself from our fascist predations.” You know they want you to....
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Indians visited crypto scam websites nearly 10 million times last year, according to blockchain data analytics firm Chainalysis. The top crypto scam sites alone were visited 4.6 million times by Indian users.
Millions of Indians Visit Crypto Scam Sites
Indians visited scam crypto websites in droves over the past years, according to data from blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis.
The firm found that Indians visited cryptocurrency scam websites 9.6 million times last year. In 2020, the figure was much higher. Crypto scam websites were visited 17.8 million times....
The Bitcoin Foundation has issued a fraud alert over fake websites that are attempting to steal innocent visitors' bitcoin. The bitcoin advocacy organisation said in a statement that it knows of two cloned websites, bitcoincompensation.com and bitsecuretransfer.com, which are cloning the legitimate Bitcoin Foundation site and spoofing web addresses and domains. "Neither of these domains have anything to do with the Bitcoin Foundation," the foundation stressed. How the scam works. Bitcoiners are directed to a fake page that looks like the legitimate Bitcoin Foundation website, where they....
As most of you know, Bitpay is the sponsor of this year’s Bitcoin St.Petersburg bowl and they joined NC State and UCF at the All Children’s Hospital on Tuesday. This marked the initiation of the activities of the St.Petersburg bowl. The visit included players, cheerleaders, and mascots from both teams who spent time with the children as they signed autographs, took pictures, and provided memorabilia from the bowl and the respective teams to the children. Additionally, Mike Alsott, former player for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, will join the representatives from the two schools on their visit.....
How many email account does an average person have these days? What about the number of social networks we are all part of? An average person has accounts created in at least three social networks and users two or three email ids. Apart from email and social media accounts there are many other websites that we visit on a regular basis to access resources or for entertainment. Not to forget bitcoin wallets and exchanges. A lot of these websites require the users to login to access content or to interact with the platform. As the number of applications we use increases, the number of login....
A number of popular websites including the likes of Twitter and Reddit were taken down today after a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks targeted DNS service Dyn. Put a marker down on this day. It is one to be remembered. Large DDoS attacks have relentlessly targeted major DNS host Dyn, leading to websites of the likes of Twitter, Reddit, AirBnB and Github among plenty of others to experience partial or total outages. For those not in the know, a DNS or Domain Name Servers fundamentally act as the tool that sees through a user’s request to access any given webpage....