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We’ve lost far too many hackers to suicide. What if Satoshi was one of them? Embedded on every single node of the Bitcoin network is an obituary. Hacked into the transaction data, it’s a memorial to Len Sassaman, a man essentially immortalized in the blockchain itself. A fitting tribute in more ways than one. Len was a true Cypherpunk— equal parts brilliant, irreverent, and idealistic. He devoted his life to defending personal freedoms through cryptography, working as a developer on PGP e...

PlusOne Solutions API Takes an Innovative Approach to Seamless Updates for Compliance Programs Contractor risk management company launches open Application Programming Interface (API) to create a unified method for managing their Service Network compliance data and compliance programs. News provided by Share this article Share this article ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- PlusOne Solutions, Inc., a contractor and vendor risk management company, launched its open Application Program...

A note from the CTN Editorial Board: The CTN Editorial board was feeling a little down, missing out this year on the usual wild parties, skiing in Biarritz with Richard Branson, spending quality time with Sting in a sweat lodge, and so on (we know you always suspected this is how we spent your membership dollars). Even the zoom-based group therapy sessions with Gwyneth Paltrow fell a little flat. But it’s a new year and we have one of our favorite things to do at this time, namely compiling o...

Protect your system from unwanted visitors with two-factor authentication. If the only protection between an attacker and a user account is a password, security-conscious administrators start to get nervous – and rightly so. Although strong passwords can be enforced, carelessness cannot be ruled out. Two-factor authentication (2FA) provides additional protection against unwanted visitors, even if a user chooses a weak password. While the users password remains as the first authentication fact...

Promising protocol much easier to fingerprint than HTTPS Share Copy Googles QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) protocol, announced in 2013 as a way to make the web faster, waited seven years before being implemented in the ad giants Chrome browser. But it still arrived before privacy could get there. A trio of researchers from China have found that QUIC is more vulnerable to web fingerprinting than HTTPS, a shortcoming that could make it easier for an adversary to infer which website...

Friday 29 January 2021 The technologies and standards that underpin communication around the world are, for the most part, global and interoperable. From the microprocessor architectures that power everything we do, to the standards set by bodies such as the Internet Engineering Task Force, which oversees the way the internet works, and 3GPP, which has a similar role for mobile communications, we have developed an inexorable tendency to commonality. We all use Intel- and ARM-designed microproc...

New Momentum for IPv6 Deployment IPv6 has been in the collective backlog for years, but new government and structural pressure has sped up the pace of migration from IPv4 to IPv6. According to John Brzozowski, chief architect of IPv6 and Distinguished Engineer with Comcast, "You should already be on your way or at least thinking about your IPv6 deployment...You will have to do something to make your business operate on the Internet." Brzozowski’s statement appeared in a December 2012 ...

IT Ministry Issues Draft of National Cyber Security Policy 2021 The Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication has drafted National Cyber Security Policy 2021, envisaging developing secure and resilient cyber systems and networks for national cybersecurity and response. The policy framework is envisaged to secure the entire cyberspace of Pakistan including all information and communication systems used in both public and private sectors. The objective of the policy is To establish...

Jan 15, 2021 Blinding encryption protocols, five-times mobile cloud gaming data traffic, a refocused 5G core and “seven-day weekend” traffic after people switched to lockdown home working are among the trends impacting mobile data in 2021. These are among the insights gathered by Enea on what global operators can expect this year from a cross-section of mobile industry thought leaders including AT&T, Telefonica, RootMetrics, Tutela, Analysys Mason, Strategy Analytics and ABI Research. Some ...

Some users who try to log into DoorDash get an error code 400. However, an HTTP 400 Bad Request is harder to diagnose than your typical error code. Here's how to fix the issue.