Bitcoin Archive

A new extortion method

I’ve been seeing reports from various people about a new type of extortion emails that are being received nowadays. The emails in question threaten the victim with exposing it to the friends and family for watching porn or doing some other potentially incorrect activity online, like downloading torrents. To draw the attention the blackmailers provide

DDoS protection or ransom payment?

I followed an ad earlier today which was referencing some sort of DDoS protection as I was curious to see what solutions could one offer that would help prevent major DDoS attacks like the record one that got Brian Krebs kicked of Akamai for taking around 620 Gb/s, especially since some believe that someone is systematically

I never trusted Bitcoin

Or any other cryptocurrency due to it’s increased volatility and the risky environment around it. With cryptocurrencies it’s like walking into a casino with a brick of cash. You don’t know what’s going to happen throughout the night, but one thing’s for sure and that’s the fact that you stand a good chance of loosing