Cryptography

Japan’s financial regulator said on Jan. 29 that it would inspect all crypto currency exchanges and ordered Coincheck to get its act together after hackers stole $530 million worth of digital money from its exchange in one of the biggest cyber heists on record.

Julian Assange's six-year stay at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London is dangerous for both physical and mental health. This is the results of his last medical examination conducted by two medics in October for a total of 20 hours in 3 days, according to a news agency.

978 million people worldwide have been victims of cybercrime in 2017, according to a report by Norton, quoted by The Guardian.

Each of them spent an average of two business days to take care of the consequences. The most common attacks are low-tech - attempts to deceive the user to reveal their personal information.

The world's most valuable cryptocurrency, bitcoin, has lost over half its value since it smashed the $20,000 barrier in mid-December. The price of the cryptocurrency dropped to $9,555 at 15:00 GMT on Wednesday.

"The cryptocurrency market is experiencing a serious attack from speculators," Gleb Zadoya, head of analytics at Analitika Online said in email comments to RT.

The cryptocurrency market has extended its losses, as major digital assets are trading 13 to 25 percent below previous day's prices. Digital-currency locomotive bitcoin has now slid close to $10,000.

Bitcoin slid as much as 14 percent on Tuesday to hit a four-week low below $12,000, as fears grew of a regulatory crackdown after reports that South Korea's finance minister had said banning trading in cryptocurrencies was still an option, reported Reuters. 

South Korea's government said on Thursday it plans to ban cryptocurrency trading, sending bitcoin prices plummeting and throwing the virtual coin market into turmoil as the nation's police and tax authorities raided local exchanges on alleged tax evasion./Reuters

The South Korean government on Jan. 11 said it plans to ban cryptocurrency trading, sending bitcoin prices plummeting and throwing the virtual coin market into turmoil as the nation’s police and tax authorities raided local exchanges on alleged tax evasion.

SplashData publishes its annual rating of the hundred most unreliable passwords for the year on the internet.

Experts from SplashData have analyzed about 5 million passwords broken down in 2017. For the fourth time in a row the first place in the rating is 123456. The second position is the password password, the third is 12345678.

Russia will probably seek to create its own cryptocurrency, the BNR reports referring to the Financial Times. The newspaper focused on last summer's meeting of President Vladimir Putin with Vitalyk Buterin, the Russian-born founder of one of the major digital currencies Ethereum. The meeting was aimed at discussing how to regulate a future official "cryptocurrency" market.