Autumn Radtke, 28, was CEO of First Meta Elizabeth Weise, USATODAY 4:40 p.m. EST March 5, 2014 The American CEO of a Bitcoin and virtual currency exchange was found dead in her Singapore apartment late last month, multiple sources report…. Read More ›
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Death of global web: Internet will end in 2014 – Kaspersky Lab
Collage: Voice of Russia The Internet as a global network may cease to exist in 2014, giving way to dozens of national webs with limited access to foreign web resources, Alexander Gostev, an expert at the Kaspersky Laboratory, told reporters…. Read More ›
‘Assassination market’: Bernanke tops ‘kill-list’ in crowd-sourced bitcoin fundraiser for wannabe hitmen
The front page of The Assassination Market. A new site allows anyone to set bounties on the death of any individual and anonymously pay a hit man who fulfills the contract with digital currency bitcoin. Barack Obama, Ben Bernanke and… Read More ›
Live streamed videos of abuse and pay-per-view child rape among ‘disturbing’ cybercrime trends, Europol report reveals
Almost half of world’s websites dealing in commercial child sexual abuse material have their servers located in US Paul Gallagher Wednesday, 16 October 2013 Organised criminal networks are getting away with a “disturbing” and increasing trend of pay-per-view child rape… Read More ›
Bitcoin transactions enter the real estate market
© Flickr.com/Ricky Leong/cc-by-nc-sa 3.0 So far, the world’s first independent and decentralized digital currency, Bitcoin, has been mostly used for small transactions. There are pundits who predict that Bitcoin will never be able to make the leap from servicing small… Read More ›
World’s first bitcoin ATM in Cyprus?
By Poly PantelidesPublished on March 28, 2013 AN ENTREPRENEUR has announced he is keen to introduce in Cyprus the world’s first ATM for virtual currency, bitcoin, which is not regulated by a central bank but has instead been growing… Read More ›
Hackers allegedly holding Romney tax returns for ransom
By Eric W. Dolan Wednesday, September 5, 2012 17:38 EDT Topics: mitt romney ♦ romney ♦ Romney tax returns The financial firm PricewaterhouseCoopers is taking the alleged theft of Mitt Romney’s tax returns seriously, according to BuzzFeed, though it has… Read More ›