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Daily IoT/Blockchain News from @surgethings - Oct 22, 2016
Daily IoT/Blockchain news from @surgethings.
Internet of Things security holes partly to blame for massive internet
The Denver Post Abaove are RFID tags to keg lines at the Crazy Mountain Brewery June 9, 2016. Experts say Internet of Things devices that still have default …
The fourth industrial revolution and blockchain
Lier - 21 oktober 2016. Ben van Lier. In 1954, German philosopher Martin …
Blockchain platform developed by banks to be open-source
LONDON: A blockchain platform developed by a group that includes more than 70 of the world’s biggest financial institutions is making its code …
Half of Americans Discouraged from Purchasing Internet of Things
Awareness Month, IT security firm ESET in collaboration with the National …
dweet.io: A simple, effective messaging service for the Internet of Things
In my last post I discussed Freeboard, a powerful, polished, open source Web dashboard and mentioned that Bug Labs, the creators of Freeboard, …
Blame Hacked Internet Of Things Devices For Today’s Website Outages
The massive cyberattack that repeatedly slowed down the internet Friday, rendering some sites unusable for hours, capitalizes on an army of hacked …
Are European Banks Falling Behind in Blockchain Development?
Reuters, a member organization of the R3 Blockchain Consortium, believes European banks are falling behind in blockchain development and …
Someone Weaponized the Internet of Things
What’s changing is the tremendous growth in the Internet of Things, or IOT, the devices from PCs to home routers to smart refrigerators that we …
How The Internet Of Things Brought Down the Internet
facilitated a massive cyber attack that crashed major websites in North America …
Walmart, IBM and Tsinghua University to use a blockchain for food supply
Brave New Coin The project creates, A new model for food traceability, supply chain transparency and auditability using IBM Blockchain based on the open source …
Levy Harkins Co Inc Lowers stake in ORBCOMM Inc (ORBC)
ORBCOMM Inc. is a provider of machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions including network connectivity devices and web reporting applications.
Coinbase President: Blockchain Alters Consumer Acquisition
Fred Ehrsam, co-founder and president of popular bitcoin exchange and wallet service provider Coinbase, believes blockchain is beginning to …
‘Smart’ home devices used as weapons in website attack
“Mirai scours the Web for IoT (Internet of Things) devices protected by little more than factory-default usernames and passwords,” explained …
R3 Finally Open Sources Blockchain Project, Admits Budget Difficulty
R3 Corda, a private Blockchain platform specifically developed for financial establishments with massive transactional volumes by R3CEV, is officially …
Rome, Bari, Milan House 3 Top Bitcoin-Related Projects in Italy
According to the law proposal (still in draft), the Blockchain technology will be used by the Italian public administration to do transactions across Lazio …
Physicians Say Blockchain Healthcare Ideas in Need of Exam
While there’s a lot of hype over blockchain in healthcare, some who work in the industry say that the product pitches so far are little more than pipe …
How Hackers Exploited the Internet of Things to Bring Down the Internet
The internet of things is a fertile ground for hackers, says Ziv Gadot, CEO of Red Button, a cybersecurity firm that specializes in DDoS attacks.
Visa Goes Blockchain Introduces International B2B Payment Solution With
Blockchain News Visa has just announced a preview of Visa B2B Connect, a new platform that Visa is developing with Blockchain startup Chain to give financial …
Ethereum Price Stable Despite Attacks, Potential Fork
Simply put, smart contracts are self-executing agreements that exist as scripts on the Ethereum blockchain and automatically pay out with digital …
‘Internet Of Things’ Hacking Attack Led To Widespread Outage Of Popular
NPR NPR’s Scott Simon talk with NPR technology reporter Alina Selyukh about the internet outages that disrupted major U.S. websites on Friday.
‘Internet Of Things’ Hacking Attack Led To Widespread Outage Of Popular
‘Internet Of Things’ Hacking Attack Led To Widespread Outage Of Popular Websites. By editor 50 minutes ago. ShareTwitter Facebook Google+ …
SBI SECURITIES Works with IBM to Test Blockchain Technology for Bond
Newswire Today (press release) IBM today announced SBI SECURITIES is testing the potential of blockchain technology for a new type of bond trading system. Working in …
Experts: ‘Internet of Things’ May Have Led to Massive Server Attacks
The nation’s growing attachment to an “Internet of Things” likely helped hackers launch a massive distributed denial-of-service attack that led to …
Blockchain Weekly Recap 10-22-2016
With the help of IBM, the retail giant is designing a blockchain supply chain system that would utilize the Hyperledger Project’s technology to track …
Synereo Partners Silicon Valley’s NFX Guild to Accelerate Decentralised
CoinTelegraph Tagged the world’s first concurrent and compositional Blockchain, the platform says its RChain is capable of solving well known problems of classical …
Eye Catching Active Stocks: International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM),
Street Wise Report (press release) (blog) On the other hand, IBM (IBM) released that SBI SECURITIES is testing the potential of blockchain technology for a new type of bond trading system.
The Internet of Things Is Really All About Software
Much of the buzz is about the hardware and the smart devices themselves, such as watches, lightbulbs, and thermostats, but as the Internet of Things …
Hackers used new type of malware in Internet attack
But the Dyn incident featured a new kind of malicious software called Mirai, which infects Internet of things devices: commonplace electronic gadgets …
‘Internet Of Things’ Hacking Attack Led To Widespread Outage Of Popular
NPR’s Scott Simon talk with NPR technology reporter Alina Selyukh about the internet outages that disrupted major U.S. websites on Friday.
2 Companies Thriving From the Internet of Things Trend
A catch-all term for machine-to-machine communication and a buzzword for investors searching for the next big thing, the IoT could generate up to $11 …
Dutch International Energy Hackathon Won by Blockchain Project
After a weekend of collaboration at the Hackenergy 2016, a jury of industry experts judged a project called EcoCoin as the best idea. The hackathon …
‘Internet Of Things’ Hacking Attack: 5 Key Things You Need To Know
The Internet of Things is a term for everyday, inanimate objects that are increasingly becoming wifi capable. Great examples are Apple Watches and …
Massive web outage blamed on ‘Internet of Things’
In this Oct. 15, 2014, photo, a security camera is seen at MetLife Stadium, home of the New York Giants and the New York Jets football teams, in East …
How to register new users to the blockchain?
admin, WebAppAdmin, user_type1_709c4181a9, user_type1_c4a67363b3…
R3’s Corda Becomes Open Source, Joins Hyperledger
Corda, the distributed financial ledger created by R3CEV led international banking consortium for blockchain technology will be made open source.
How your DVR was hijacked to help epic cyberattack
As long as companies have been gleefully making and selling Internet-connected devices (the so-called Internet of Things or IoT), computer security …
Hackers say the attacks, which affected major sites like Twitter, Netflix
CBC.ca … in recent months, thanks to the proliferation of “internet of things” devices ranging from connected thermostats to security cameras and smart TVs.
IBM, Walmart, Tsinghua University study blockchain’s use for safer food
CoinReport IBM, Walmart and Tsinghua University signed an agreement to explore food supply chain traceability and authenticity using blockchain technology.
Internet of Things believed to be targeted in massive DDoS attacks
Dyn DNS, the internet traffic management company hit by DDoS attacks Friday which affected more than 80 popular websites, says it believes that …
Find Out If One of Your Devices Helped Break the Internet
Security experts have been warning for years that the growing number of unsecured Internet of Things devices would bring a wave of unprecedented …
Attack reveals new vulnerabilities in nation’s ‘internet of things’
The attack on the infrastructure of the internet was a reminder about how billions of ordinary web-connected devices can be turned to vicious purposes …
8 Million Blockchain.info Left Unaccessible; DNS Hijack
victim to a Domain Name System (DNS) hijack, which allowed attackers to …
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