Cybersecurity


CoinDesk Indices

How Web3 Is Disrupting AI Cloud Computing

Data security is broken and blockchain holds the key, says David Attermann.

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Finance

Magic Eden's $5B Token Airdrop Raises Crypto Wallet Security Questions

To claim aidrops, users had to download Magic Eden's wallet, a highly atypical process that industry insiders said threatened to breach security best practices.

Magic Eden CEO Jack Lu at Solana Breakpoint 2022. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Security Firm Ironblocks Builds 'Firewall' for DeFi Protocols

"Once you get hacked in most of the cases you're done," CEO Dadosh said. "And this is what we're trying to prevent."

Padlock and chain (Georg Bommeli/ Unsplash)

Finance

Web3 Cybersecurity Company GoPlus Raises $10M to Build Permissionless Security Layer

The round counts OKX Ventures, HashKey Capital and Animoca Brands among its backers

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Finance

Coinbase, Circle, Kraken Join Crypto's New 'Neighborhood Watch' for Cyberthreats

Consensys, the Solana Foundation and Fireblocks are also among the baker's dozen founding members of Crypto ISAC.

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Finance

Crypto Gets Another 'Neighborhood Watch' to Guard Against Hacks

Justine Bone, a cybersecurity firebrand whose research led to recalls of half a million faulty pacemakers, leads the soon-to-launch information-sharing and analysis center (ISAC) for crypto firms.

Justine Bone, executive director of Crypto ISAC.

Tech

This Cybersecurity Pro Gets Paid to Hack Ethereum – for the Good of the Network

One of the techniques that his team deploys to protect the blockchain is “fuzzing,” a term borrowed from the software-development industry that’s become a common way of checking to make sure a system is secure and resilient.

Ethereum Foundation security researcher David Theodore's Airstream, parked in Colorado (David Theodore)

Policy

U.S.-Listed Crypto Firms Will Need to Report Cybersecurity Breaches

Companies are poised to begin reporting cybersecurity incidents and strategies to the SEC later this year.

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Web3

German Intelligence Agency Releases NFT Collection to Recruit Talent

The Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND)’s dog-themed PFP collection can be acquired through a gamified treasure hunt, where participants must find a string of characters hidden by the agency.

Dogs of BND Collection (OpenSea)

Opinion

Ledger’s Hard Lesson: Being Right Isn't Good Enough

Public communication doesn’t work like computer code. The French hardware wallet maker learned that the hard way.

Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier at Web Summit 2021 in Lisbon, Portugal. (Harry Murphy/Web Summit via Sportsfile)

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