Vitalik Buterin Sides with Peter Schiff, Claims Crypto Wallets Need Better Security
Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, makes a case for social recovery as one of the ways of making it easier to secure crypto wallets
Sim swapped and Coinbase account drained
Thought I would share my sim swapping story and how I lost everything, hopefully it’s helpful, entertaining or of some value to people. Mid day…
Gatehub Crypto Wallet Data Breach Compromises Passwords of 1.4M Users
Security researcher finds that password data and personal information of 1.4 million users of GateHub cryptocurrency wallet service have reportedly been dumped online.
Grin: Breaking Mimblewimble’s Privacy Model
TL;DR: Mimblewimble’s privacy is fundamentally flawed. Using only $60/week of AWS spend, I was able to uncover the exact addresses of senders and recipients for 96% Grin transactions in real time.
Security Incident: CLI binaries available on getmonero.org may have been compromised
Some users noticed the hash of the binaries they downloaded did not match the expected one
