Our rigged economy: banks have all the power without the responsibility [video]
Several fake browser extensions masqueraded as legitimate cryptocurrency utilities in a snowballing campaign.Large campaigns that are spreading malicious browser extensions are abusing Google Ads and well-known cryptocurrency brands to draw in victims. Exten…
Cooking Mama IP owners Office Create has revealed that it is considering legal action against developer 1st Playable Productions after the unauthorised release of Cooking Mama: Cookstar. The Nintendo Switch game, which was recently part of a hoax controversy…
Facebook is scaling back its beleaguered cryptocurrency project Libra in an attempt to win regulatory approval. The Silicon Valley-based social networking giant’s ambitious digital currency will now be linked to individual currencies and overseen by global w…
WASHINGTONAs the shock of Covid-19 continues to roil world markets, a report published Friday by the International Monetary Fund has found that more countries are choosing to peg their national currencies to Akoin, the cryptocurrency of musician and entrepren…
Facebook scales back Libra project, which will now be focused on creating a more traditional payment network where coins will be tied to a local currency (New York Times)
For digital publishers like Android Police, online ads provide a vital stream of revenue that helps us keep the lights on, despite taking up extra bandwidth for our readers and forcing content to load at a slower pace. Luckily, companies like Scroll have been…
As developers increasingly embrace off-the-shelf software components into their apps and services, threat actors are abusing open-source repositories such as RubyGems to distribute malicious packages, intended to compromise their computers or backdoor softwar…
After a researcher finds 49 Chrome extensions posing as crypto wallet apps while stealing users’ private keys and more, Google removes them from Web Store (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)
Once upon a time, prolonged downtime at The Pirate Bay was greeted by wails of concern. Many of the site’s users would naturally presume the worst, that the site had been raided and shut down once again. In recent years, however, persistent downtime has been…