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Screenshot: WallStreetBets A cryptocurrency scam recently pilfered at least $2 million from WallStreetBets enthusiasts, convincing them that they were buying into a new crypto coin connected to the popular memestock, according to a report from Bloomberg News. Advertisement For weeks, moderators of the notorious Reddit forum have warned users to avoid fraudulent scams based around the good WSB name. A post, tethered to the top of the group’s page, asks community members to be wary of offers ...

A new bill that hit the New York state senate on Monday is aiming to put a multi-year pause on crypto mining operations across the state until authorities can fully suss out what that mining is doing to the climate and local environment.

May 4, 2021 A touching sculpture dedication pays tribute to the legendary cryptographer Hal Finney and his love of running. “Running Bitcoin” is a sculpture in commemoration of Hal Finney — celebrating his 65th birthday and his contributions to Bitcoin. It will be up for auction beginning today, May 4, 2021, Hals birthday, and 50% of the sale will be donated to ALS Association Golden Golden West Chapter. I am the artist, Marcus Connor, best known for being the original creator of the “B...

Classes canceled as hackers hit Centennial School District District computers were breached, canceling classes, while district fixes the problem. The Centennial School District announced Monday afternoon that all of its schools will be canceled Tuesday, April 27, and Wednesday, April 28, because the districts computer system was breached. The school district said Monday, April 26, it "discovered that certain files on its systems were encrypted by an unknown actor." The district took ...

GitHub Reacts to Growing Cryptocurrency Mining Attacks Using GitHub Actions Like by As the market capitalization of cryptocurrency surged from $190 billion in January of 2020 to $2 trillion in April of 2021, its become profitable for bad actors to make a full time job of attacking the free tiers of platform-as-a-service providers. Chartier describes how an attacker can abuse GitHub Actions cron feature to create new commits every hour with the aim to mine cryptocurrencies. Because devel...

Classes canceled as hackers hit Centennial School District District computers were breached, canceling classes, while district fixes the problem. The Centennial School District announced Monday afternoon that all of its schools will be canceled Tuesday, April 27, and Wednesday, April 28, because the districts computer system was breached. The school district said Monday, April 26, it "discovered that certain files on its systems were encrypted by an unknown actor." The district took ...

Crypto Market Plummets Following Week of Coinbase-fueled Hype Photo: Dan Kitwood (Getty Images) After cryptocurrency prices soared this week amid hype leading up to Coinbase’s direct listing, the market took a nosedive over the weekend. Bitcoin prices tanked by roughly 14% in 24 hours, from $61,530 to $52,829, the token’s biggest one-day drop since February, before rebounding slightly, according to the cryptoasset price-tracking site CoinMarketCap. Advertisement Prices of other popular cryp...

Abstract Broadcast encryption provides a promising technique of data access control for specified users in cloud computing. A data uploader can generate a ciphertext for a set of chosen users such that only the intended users are able to learn the data content. However, with the rapidly increasing of collaboration between users, it is desired to extend the receiver set to grant the decryption right for more users. The existing broadcast encryption systems cannot be capable for this scenario. In...

The SM3 hash algorithm is a cryptographic hash function designed by the Chinese Commercial Cryptography Administration Office (CCCAO) in order to propose ...

Tunable DES - Triple DES (ECB, CBC, CTR) accelerator - optional SCA protection The Data Encryption Standard (DES) is defined in FIPS PUB 46-3 as a symmetric-key algorithm. The triple DES (TDES) is block cipher that applies the DES algorithm three times to each data block. The TDES is defined in ANS X9.52-1998, NIST SP 800-67 rev-1 and ISO/IEC 18033-3:2010. TDES is a symmetric-key algorithm, meaning the same key is used for both encrypting and decrypting. View see the entire get in con...