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GitHub Reports Two Incidents in June 2024 Affecting Service Performance
GitHub's June 2024 report details two incidents causing degraded performance, impacting Issues and Migration services.
GitHub Reports Four Major Incidents Affecting Services in July 2024
GitHub experienced four significant service disruptions in July 2024, affecting Webhooks, Copilot, and Actions. Learn more about the incidents and mitigation steps.
GitHub Faces Performance Challenges Due to DNS Incident in October 2024
GitHub experienced a significant performance issue in October 2024, affecting DNS infrastructure and impacting services like Copilot and Actions workflows.
Character.AI Discloses Brief User Data Exposure Incident
Character.AI reported a brief incident where user data was exposed to others for ten minutes. The company has implemented additional safeguards to prevent future occurrences.
Deepak Chopra Partners with Hedera Hashgraph to Leverage Blockchain for COVID-19 Mental Health Support
Renown Indian-American author Deepak Chopra discussed how blockchain technology could help in improving mental health during the current pandemic crisis.
ISIS Millions Could Be Hidden in Cryptocurrency Ready-to-Fund War Chest
There is fear that missing ISIS’s £246 million may have been hidden in cryptocurrency waiting to be used for war chest.
IOTA Foundation Announces the Alpha Release of IOTA Streams for Users' Ultimate Control Over Their Own Data
Today, the open-source non-profit foundation, IOTA has announced the final Alpha release of IOTA Streams.
IOTA Looks into “Data Sharding” to Increase Storage on Tangle in Progress for Nectar
IOTA recently published a December update, announcing its progress for its remaining elements for the delivery of IOTA 2.0, Nectar.
Web3 Security 2023 State Revealed, Nearly $2 Billion Lost
CertiK's "Hack3d: The Web3 Security Report 2023" provides a thorough analysis of Web3 security incidents in 2023, highlighting key vulnerabilities and trends in the blockchain and smart contract security landscape.
Visa Launches a Blockchain System that Algorithmically Ensures Fairness
Visa, a prominent card payment solution provider, has developed a blockchain-driven system dubbed LucidiTEE that seeks to enable multiple parties to compute large-scale private data jointly. This is touted to happen in such a way that policy compliance is guaranteed even if the input providers are offline.
185 Blockchain Hacking Incidents with $920M Loss Reported by SlowMist in First Half of 2023
SlowMist, a renowned blockchain security firm, has recently published its mid-2023 report on Blockchain Security and Anti-Money Laundering (AML). The report offers a comprehensive overview of the current global landscape of blockchain security and AML developments.
IOTA Launches Chrysalis Phase 1, One Step Closer to an Enterprise-Ready Blockchain
Chrysalis, also known as IOTA 1.5 is designed as an intermediate phase before its transition to IOTA 2.0, Coordicide.
Declining trend in physical crypto ATMs
The number of physical cryptocurrency ATMs is declining, with 3,627 removed in March 2023, according to Coin ATM Radar. The trend of increasing installations is reversing, with the highest number of machines installed in a single month being 2,048 in January 2021. The three-month-long downtrend was broken in April with 37 installations. General Bytes, BitAccess, and Genesis Coin are the current market leaders in manufacturing crypto ATMs. General Bytes faced a security incident in March and promised to reimburse customer losses.
French Man Who Paid $500,000 In Bitcoin to Activists Involved in US Capitol Hill Riot Leaves Behind A Suicide Note
A Frenchman, who paid more than $500,000 In Bitcoin to Trump supporters left behind a scathing suicide note justifying his health difficulties.
IRS Hoping to Deanonymize Monero and ZCash Privacy Coins to Prevent Cybercrime
The Criminal Investigation Division(CID) of the IRS are actively hiring private contractors to study and analyze privacy coins, as there has quite been a lot of fraudulent activities revolving around their usage.
Indian Woman Caught After Stealing 63.5 Bitcoins From Company She Co-Founded
Ayushi Jain, a 26-year-old Indian woman, has been arrested by police after she stole 63.5 Bitcoins worth approximately $420,000 from Bengaluru-based BitCipher Labs LLP, a company she co-founded with Ashish Singhal.