APWG, the Anti-Phishing Working Group, is the worldwide coalition unifying the global response to cybercrime across industry, government and law-enforcement sectors. Originally begun in the US, its European Foundation was recently established, and will receive a special focus this month when the organisation holds the eCrime 2015 Symposium on Electronic Crime Research, in Barcelona. Foy Shiver is Deputy Secretary-General of APWG, […]
Snapchat have announced a partnership with Square, allowing Snapchat users to send cash to each other. The service is available to US users over 18. [youtube]http://youtu.be/kBwjxBmMszQ[/youtube] A security breach in January led to the usernames and phone numbers of 4.6 million users being published. Snapchat’s announcement makes it very clear that they will not be storing debit […]
Antonie Geerts is one of the founders of Gaelcoin, a new cryptocurrency with an Irish flavour, and he is our guest on today’s podcast (19:48, 11MB, MP3). Gaelcoin is based on Bitcoin, and limited to a total of 650 million coins. 1% have been ‘pre-mined’ and are being distributed free of charge to “Irish people”. […]
Here’s a chart from Mt Gox, a Bitcoin exchange, showing Bitcoin’s value for the past month. Following a spike which saw Bitcoins trade for over $1200, the price would appears to have stabilised at around $500 – $600 the value it has had for most of the past month. But throughout 2012, the crpytocurrency […]
