This is a summary of the key points from this article: How to Not Get Caught When You Launder Money on Blockchain? Seems like successfully laundering Bitcoins is fairly complicated, lots of pitfalls. Secrecy is usually binary, it is all or nothing. If there is secrecy for 99 transactions and then a failure on the […]
Ransomware Prohibition
Theres nothing that can’t be made worse The Treasury has moved to prohibit payment of ransomware ransoms. They’ve said there will be some exceptions, and it is obvious that this won’t be an effective complete global ban on payment. The result, a partial ban on payment, is the worst possible ransomware environment for victims. The […]
Thats just, like, your opinion, man
Differing Perspectives on Cyber Threats Ransomware is a hot topic pretty much all the time in information security circles. It is (I believe) one of the stronger drivers for better security decisions at companies (“here is public proof on an existential threat for failure”). Ransomware is also pretty uninspiring as an attack, there is no […]