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The attack comes just one week after a U.K. court ordered the website to stop hosting the Bitcoin white paper.
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DDoS News
DDoS, or distributed denial-of-service attack, is a cyber-attack which disables a network for intended users by flooding the target with many different sources in order to overload the system. There are a lot of DDoS software tools available on the internet, many of which are quite user-friendly. Still, DDoS attacks are extremely dangerous and may cause the loss of millions of dollars, depending on the duration of the attack. Of course, there are a lot of ways to protect against a DDoS attack, such as firewalls, blackhole routing, upstream filtering and others. Bitcoin has some built-in protections against DDoS attacks, but is still vulnerable and may be slowed down by them. Cryptocurrency exchanges and various web-sites of concrete currency may be attacked, made unavailable for users and even be robbed for some amount of tokens while being under a DDoS attack.
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The recent Twitter hack shows us that centralized infrastructure is still vulnerable, but DIDs, SSI and blockchains can change the paradigm.
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Binance’s CEO suspects that recent DDoS attacks came from competing exchanges looking to damage Binance’s reputation rather than steal crypto.
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The world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance, faced a series DDoS attacks on its Chinese domains on April 29.
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Russians show more interest in cryptocurrency markets amid the coronavirus outbreak as crypto exchange-related traffic rises by over 5%.
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An ex-employee of crypto exchange Digitex has leaked KYC documentation for and claims to have data for over 8,000 users.
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Denial of service attacks are hitting both Bitfinex and OKEx, crippling the exchanges for short periods of time as Bitfinex CTO calls the attacks highly sophisticated.
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Eight months after the discovery of the inflation bug, more than half of the full nodes on the bitcoin network are still running client versions susceptible to the vulnerability.
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The Tron Foundation has disclosed a fixed critical vulnerability which could have rendered its blockchain unusable.
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60% of bitcoin’s full-nodes are running software still vulnerable to the inflation bug at press time.
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Overview of the most “catastrophic bug in recent years.” Why did Bitcoin Core developers keep it a secret?
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U.S. authorities are concerned about blockchain data, which until recently has been considered immutable. What’s behind the new Michigan bill aimed at protecting the data on blockchain from alteration?
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Weiss’ lacklustre rating of Bitcoin as ‘C+’ has led to South Korea launching an offensive against its website.
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How Etherium-based solution can change the way companies manage data.
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Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken sees extended downtime after major upgrade goes wrong, infuriates users by giving engineers time off to rest before relaunching site.
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