Using Trend Micro Antivirus Put Bitcoin Users At Risk
Computer security depends on a quite different factors, including the software we use to keep hackers out. Antivirus software is designed to protect our devices unwanted harm, but not all of them work properly. Trend Micro, which is a very popular antivirus software among Windows users, made computers vulnerable to being hacked. It goes without saying this debacle could have affected Bitcoin users as well, simply because their entire computer could be hijacked with very little effort. Trend Micro Vulnerability Exposes Windows Computers. Windows computers are by far the most lucrative....
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Namecoin's domain-name system is an attractive environment for malicious users, but is not likely to gain widespread use among criminals, according to a research report from digital security firm Trend Micro. The report, published last September and written by members of Trend Micro's Forward-Looking Threat Research Team David Sancho and Robert McArdle, outlines the properties of the namecoin top-level domain system that leave it open to abuse by malicious users. These include cheap and anonymous domain-name creations and a system that places domain-names out of the reach of central....
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CME Now Offers Micro Bitcoin, Ether Options
CME Group announced Monday that it is now offering options on micro bitcoin and micro ether futures. CME’s Micro Bitcoin futures (MBT) is 1/10 the size of one bitcoin (BTC) and Micro Ether futures (MET) is similarly sized at....
Rural Tasmania has become the unlikely target of a porn scam, defrauding residents by making them pay for normally free antivirus software using Bitcoin. Non-crypto users pay for free software. Police on the island are currently investigating the origins of the operation, which comes in the form of a virus infecting user devices. The news comes against a backdrop of high-profile warnings about the proliferation of ransomware worldwide, particularly via social media and phishing emails. In the Tasmanian stunt, devices show a pornographic pop-up along with a message confirming “infection.”....