https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/0f/1080775760_0:19:1200:694_1200x675_80_0_0_a2eaca39a5a144eeec188cb5b15f5dd0.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Shweta Sharma. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/viral/202010151080775341-do-not-try-this-man-has-hilarious-hack-for-his-itchy-back-in-viral-video/ While watching someone scratch any part of their body consistently may gross some people out, a man in India has turned the off-putting act of scratching an itch into a hilarious event by using a humongous tool to relieve his discomfort. A video going viral on social media shows a labourer at a construction site in India […]
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BREAKING: A severed fiber optic cable shuts down Virginia’s online voter registration system, the last day to register before the November general election. https://t.co/PAnYn7DzJn — The Associated Press (@AP) October 13, 2020 Daily Beast: The entire Virginia voter registration system has crashed on the last day for voters to register before Election Day—and officials have blamed it on a cable being cut accidentally, according to […]
Blockchain-based networks provide a unique and unprecedented opportunity to experiment with new forms of organization – both organization of information and software processes as well as governing human action. But nobody ever said creating new forms of organization would be easy, or glitch-free. When a group of enthusiastic entrepreneurs or developers design a new blockchain-based network – figuring out the consensus mechanisms, the economic logic and […]
Back in 2016, the Democratic National Committee suspected a breach in its computer systems and hired California-based cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike to investigate the potential hack. The company eventually accused Moscow of malicious activities, setting off a multiple-year-old saga that later became known as Russiagate. Recently-filed financial disclosures from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband Paul Pelosi showed that the couple had invested between $500,000 and […]
The seven transactions involved in the movement of these funds on Wednesday were flagged by Twitter-based blockchain tracker bot Whale Alert. Source link
The South Korean exchange is bringing more services back online after suffering a major hack late last month. Source link
Conservative critics of South Korea’s government persist in pressing claims of widespread fraud in the country’s April elections, pointing to what they say is new evidence—in the form of alleged electronic distortions and mail-in balloting irregularities—to suggest the country’s ruling party won its majority in the National Assembly with expertise and advice from China. The ongoing controversy comes as U.S. President Donald Trump and his Justice […]
The CEO of the hacked South Korean crypto exchange says suspects in the hack have been identified. Source link
Regardless of one’s impression of the two contenders during the first in-person showdown between the candidates to occupy the Oval Office, both conservative and liberal commentators agreed on one thing – the debate moderator’s job left much to be desired. Fox News host Chris Wallace landed in viewers’ crosshairs as he attempted to referee the first of three presidential debates between the two major parties’ presidential […]
Artificial intelligence and data service Ocean Protocol has suspended its old contract on the Ethereum blockchain and hard-forked its project, following the $150 million KuCoin hack. On Sunday at 22:00 UTC, Ocean Protocol announced it had migrated from its old token address to a new one to thwart the KuCoin hacker’s attempts to offload 21 million OCEAN tokens worth some $8.6 million, according to the Ocean […]
The argument that Mr Assange conspired with Chelsea Manning in 2010 to hide her identity in order to secure classified US documents is not supported by the evidence a 20-year-long US Army investigator told the Old Bailey on Friday. The conspiracy to commit computer intrusion charge levied against Julian Assange by the US government is not based on a reliable set of presumptions, the Old Bailey […]
AT&T has won a motion to dismiss a $200 million punitive damages claim from Mike Terpin, who lost $24 million in crypto via SIM hack Source link
Pornhub will accept BTC and LTC payments, a nonprofit is calling upon Coinbase to be more transparent and credit default swaps are coming to the Ethereum blockchain. You’re reading Blockchain Bites, the daily roundup of the most pivotal stories in blockchain and crypto news, and why they’re significant. You can subscribe to this and all of CoinDesk’s newsletters here. Top shelf Porn paymentsPornhub, the popular adult entertainment site, […]
Joseph Sullivan allegedly insisted that the hackers sign NDAs in exchange for $100,000 in bitcoin hush money. Source link
Bitcoin may have been the salacious pretext to Marina Butina’s fling with Patrick Byrne. Source link
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday alleged that Russia engaged in an aggressive, multi-pronged effort to influence the result of the 2016 US presidential election. “The Committee found that the Russian government engaged in an aggressive, multi-faceted effort to influence, or attempt to influence, the outcome of the 2016 presidential election,” the panel said in the fifth volume of the report on […]
President Trump announced on Saturday he will sign executive orders on China Coronavirus stimulus payments to the American public. President Trump RIPPED Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democrats for holding the talks hostage. Trump then bashed Democrats for eliminating election safeguards in their proposals.Democrats also wanted stimulus checks for illegal aliens. Following his announcement in Bedminster, New Jersey the president took a few […]
Another crypto hedge fund is winding down, Huobi launched a new unit to invest in DeFi and the Twitter hacker is reportedly a bitcoin millionaire. You’re reading Blockchain Bites, the daily roundup of the most pivotal stories in blockchain and crypto news, and why they’re significant. You can subscribe to this and all of CoinDesk’s newsletters here. Top shelf Fund DownNeural Capital, a crypto hedge fund, has closed, having […]
The FBI and local officials have arrested three individuals who allegedly committed the largest hack in Twitter’s history. Florida resident Graham Clark was arrested Friday morning, according to Florida news channel WFLA. State Attorney Andrew Warren filed 30 felony charges, including organized fraud, communications fraud, fraudulent use of personal information and access to computer or electronic devices without authority, WFLA reported. Federal officials are also charging […]
A couple weeks ago Twitter accounts belonging to massive figures were hacked, including Barack Obama. Joe Biden, Jeff Bezos, Kanye West, Mike Bloomberg, Elon Musk, Uber, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates and others. The hacker used the accounts to request money be sent to a Bitcoin wallet, which raked in tens of thousands of dollars in minutes. The Twitter “hack” also revealed the apparatus behind Twitter censorship […]
A Tampa teenager was taken into custody Friday, accused of being the “mastermind” behind a huge Twitter hack that targeted some of the world’s most wealthy and influential people, authorities said. The Hillsborough State Attorney’s Office filed 30 felony charges against Graham Ivan Clark, 17, for “scamming people across America” in the July 15 attack. The scheme “stole the identities of prominent people” and “posted messages in […]
The DAO exploit of 2016 was a $55 million heist that forever altered Ethereum’s trajectory. On Tuesday, CoinDesk Live gathered a handful of blockchain veterans to look back at the incident. Cornell computer science professor Emin Gün Sirer, white-hat hacker Griff Green and MyEtherWallet founder Taylor Monahan were joined by Bloomberg reporter Matt Leising to unpack the hack’s lingering mysteries. Beyond leading to a contentious hard […]
Today Show news anchor and MSNBC hack Craig Melvin harassed Democrat Vernon Jones for supporting President Trump earlier today. Vernon Jones is no wallflower and did not sit back and take the abuse. Advertisement – story continues below Vernon Jones slammed Melvin, “You get paid to attack this president. I don’t get a dime to defend this president. To insult me, to say I’m getting paid? […]
On Tuesday Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, played video of the continuing violence and leftist rioting on the streets across America. This was devastating and revealing. Advertisement – story continues below Following Jordan’s remarks and video MSNBC hack reporter Andrea Mitchell complained about the use of this revealing video on MSNBC. TRENDING: Swarm of Police Officers with K-9 Units […]
The monumental 2016 hack resulted in one of the single-largest losses in bitcoin of all time. Source link
A rundown from one of CoinDesk’s editorial Slack channels during an action-packed hour on Wednesday last week reads like a high-pace drama. It tells the tale of a news team going through a process of incremental information discovery. First, there’s the realization that a big story – a massive hack on Twitter – is developing. Second, there’s the sudden comprehension that CoinDesk itself has been targeted […]
Julian Assange and WikiLeaks have repeatedly denied allegations that the emails belonging to the Democratic National Committee which they published in 2016 were provided to them by Russian or any other state actor, but rather than they were leaked to the organisation via “official circles in Washington DC”. Democratic National Committee (DNC) documents published by WikiLeaks in 2016 and could not have been obtained through hacking, according […]
Although some people still believe that Bitcoin transactions are untraceable and anonymous, the facts prove otherwise, says crypto expert and Bitcoin Foundation member Alexander Kitchenko, commenting on last week’s Twitter hack resulting in the theft of roughly $120,000 worth of cryptocoins. On 15 July, hackers took over high-profile Twitter accounts to kick off a massive Bitcoin (BTC) scam: the accounts of presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden, […]
Brenna Smith is an open source researcher and contributor for the investigative web site Bellingcat, where she publishes a weekly newsletter about cryptocurrencies, called CryptOsint. The Twitter hack was a shock to the company. It shouldn’t have been. The great Twitter hack of 2020 (or at least so far) was a shock to everyone, most especially the social media company itself. But, it shouldn’t have been. […]
Every year has a handful of days that you’ll never forget. Sometimes for great reasons, sometimes for awful ones, and sometimes because a level of noise and action coalesces into an awareness that something big has shifted. Wednesday was one of those days, with the staccato of compromised Twitter accounts (including ours) escalating to reach prominent public figures including current and former heads of state. The […]
Twitter says it is “embarrassed” about the cybersecurity breach earlier this week that targeted several of its most prominent users. Leon Neal/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Leon Neal/Getty Images Twitter says it is “embarrassed” about the cybersecurity breach earlier this week that targeted several of its most prominent users. Leon Neal/Getty Images Twitter says a total of 130 accounts were hacked in some fashion during […]
Cryptocurrency traders yawned at one of the year’s biggest news stories for bitcoin, with prices barely budging as the digital-asset industry became a primary victim of this week’s massive hack on Twitter accounts. The notoriously volatile bitcoin slid just 0.8% to about $9,100 on Thursday after slipping a meager 0.7% on Wednesday as the news hit. That’s in a market where it’s not uncomon, at least until recently, […]
While the crypto wallets associated with the scam registered over 400 transactions, the attackers seem to have made away with a relatively small haul. Source link