OpenStack 01/18/2018 (p.m.)

• South Korea considers shutting down domestic cryptocurrency exchanges

  Tags: computer-security, vulneratiblities, Spectre, Meltdown, investigations

  • The request is one of the first responses from the U.S. Congress to the disclosure earlier this month by security researchers of the two major flaws, which may allow hackers to steal passwords or encryption keys on most types of computers, phones and cloud-based servers.

    McNerney, a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, asked the companies to explain the scope of Spectre and Meltdown, their timeframe for understanding the vulnerabilities, how consumers are affected and whether the flaws have been exploited, among other questions.

• 10 Reasons Not To Trust Facebook

  (video)

  Tags: Facebook

  • - By Paul Merrell
  • With over 1.5 billion people using Facebook has become the superpower of the social media landscape. With with power comes responsibility and Facebook has unfortunately been responsibly for some pretty shady revelations!

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