February 23, 2023

S3 Ep123: Crypto company compromise kerfuffle [Audio + Text]

Latest episode - listen now! Top-notch advice for cybersecurity, both at work and at home.

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February 21, 2023

Coinbase breached by social engineers, employee data stolen

Another day, another "sophisticated" attack. This time, the company has handily included some useful advice along with its mea culpa...

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August 14, 2019

Coinbase explains background to June zero-day Firefox attack

A recent, highly targeted attack on cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase offers a glimpse into how sophisticated phishing attacks can be.

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January 15, 2019

Blockchain burglar returns some of $1m crypto-swag

In an interesting move for villainy, a thief who stole over $1 million from the Ethereum Classic blockchain has given some of it back.

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November 23, 2018

Cryptocurrency ‘minting’ flaw could have leached money from exchanges

Ethereum's complexity proves to be a rich source of bugs, again.

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March 23, 2018

The bug that made free money

What would you do if you found a bug that could create money out of thin air?

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December 21, 2017

Coinbase investigates insider trading after Bitcoin Cash price spike

Trading was suspended after four minutes “to ensure a fair and orderly market.” But things were anything but orderly at that point.

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December 12, 2017

Coinbase: don’t expect to trade your cryptocurrency at busy times

It’s OK to be excited about Bitcoin and other digital currencies, according to Brian Armstrong, CEO of digital currency exchange Coinbase... just maybe not that excited.

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December 01, 2017

Coinbase ordered to turn over customer records to IRS

A federal district court in California has ordered Coinbase to turn over three years worth of identifying records on more than 14,000 of its customers to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

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