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Cybercriminals exploit hype and basic coding errors to target Initial Coin Offerings in phishing attacks, Ernst & Young research finds.

One of world's largest bitcoin exchanges by volume gets go-ahead to operate in Europe, Tokyo-based business says.

The security researcher said Uber marked his bug report as "informative", which means it contains "useful information but did warrant an immediate action or fix".

Competition and Markets Authority provisionally blocks proposed deal that would have given Murdoch total control of Sky.

The Spherity team consider liquid supply medium exchange: continuous transactions, token streaming and digital twins. 

Hackers frequently look to target and exploit curious users by tapping into trending issues, events in the news or widely publicised ones in their attacks.

Intel has disclosed that the patches were causing devices to reboot unexpectedly among other "unpredictable" behavior.

Clarke is the latest in a slew of US conservative political figures and reporters targeted by the Turkish hacking group.

The richest 1% of the global population received 82% of all new wealth generated in 2017, while the poorest 50% saw no increase at all.

Malicious websites used to generate password details for the fintech network "IOTA" are reportedly to blame for the theft of nearly $4 million from users' cryptocurrency wallets.

Status, which last year tokenised to the tune of about $100m, has sunk $5m into non-blockchain decentralisation technology Matrix.

ShoCard removes the need for authentication data to be stored on an organisation's databases.

Myles Stephenson is Chief Executive of Modulr, unearths obscure elements, complete with PSD2 jargon buster.

Technology pioneer John McAfee is urging spooked bitcoin investors not to panic after it emerged that major banks in India were investigating the country's top exchanges.

Facebook has hired Peter Hutton, the former chief executive of Eurosport, in a move it hopes will draw major live sports to the platform.

Despite a rapid rise in value over the past year, the price of bitcoin could fall to $1,000 per coin in the next 12 months, a major Wall Street investment chief has warned.

Richard Ransom, Solutions Lead, Bottomline Technologies says Open banking will be a chief innovation catalyst.

The UK is well placed for growth despite Brexit due to rises in global trade, said a Conservative economics grandee who voted Remain.

"Since both the Chrome and Firefox extensions mostly add themselves through forced installs, it's not always possible to avoid getting them," researchers said.

Mercuria, Vattenfall, Petroineos and Freepoint are also joining phase two of BTL's 'OneOffice' trading project.

Over the past few years, DDoS attacks have become more sophisticated, common and cheaper to carry out as a popular tool in cybercriminals' arsenal.

The enhanced Easy Trading Connect (ETC) blockchain prototype was coordinated by seller Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC); the buyer was Shandong Bohi Industry in China.

The disclosure comes several days after users who purchased products on OnePlus' website reported credit card fraud earlier this month.

The US Air force's A-10 Warthog is known for being a jet that can take serious punishment and is heavily armoured and armed with cannons, bombs and missiles.

MPs say it is 'vital' to examine potential poor employment practices after it emerged cabin crew had to work for free.

As speculation about South Korea's stance on crypto shifts markets, it has emerged that at least one government official in the region is under investigation for insider trading.

US Department of Justice had launched an investigation into the bank's foreign exchange business.

A 21-year-old computer hacker from the UK who made more than $700,000 by selling malware on the dark web has been jailed after being found guilty of multiple cybercrime charges.

Security researchers suspect that the Necurs botnet may be giving the new Dridex campaign a boost – something the botnet has done before.