Entries now open for SMF Rising Star Award 2024
Entries are now open for the second Sanjay Mortimer Foundation (SMF) Rising Star Award. The TCT Group is once again collaborating with the foundation to recognise an up-and-coming neurodivergent young person who has the potential to contribute greatly towards the engineering industry. The winner of the SMF Rising Star Award 2024 will receive their own mod0 3D printer, […]
hash – How can a collision attack reveal the private key?
From “Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain 3d edition, Ch4” : All addresses based on hash functions are theoretically vulnerable to an attacker independently finding the same input that produced the hash function output (com‐ mitment). In the case of Bitcoin, if they find the input the same way the original user did, they’ll know […]
Tesla and SpaceX’s Bitcoin holdings unveiled by Arkham Intelligence
Arkham Intelligence has identified the on-chain Bitcoin addresses of Elon Musk‘s companies, Tesla and SpaceX. In a Mar. 7 social media post on X (formerly Twitter), Arkham disclosed that Tesla possesses 11,510 BTC, valued at $780 million, spread across 68 addresses. Additionally, SpaceX holds 8,290 BTC, equivalent to $560 million, distributed across 28 addresses. Arkham […]
DOGE Millionaires Have Shot Up By 76%
On-chain data shows the total number of Dogecoin millionaires has observed a steep increase over the past month, a sign of strong accumulation. Dogecoin Millionaires Have Jumped 76% In Past Month According to data from the market intelligence platform IntoTheBlock, the number of Dogecoin millionaires has been skyrocketing recently. “DOGE millionaires” here refer to the […]
Hacked WordPress Sites Abusing Visitors’ Browsers for Distributed Brute-Force Attacks
Mar 07, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Web Security Threat actors are conducting brute-force attacks against WordPress sites by leveraging malicious JavaScript injections, new findings from Sucuri reveal. The attacks, which take the form of distributed brute-force attacks, “target WordPress websites from the browsers of completely innocent and unsuspecting site visitors,” security researcher Denis Sinegubko said. The activity […]
Triple-I Blog | Calif. Risk/Regulatory Environment Highlights Role of Risk-Based Pricing
Even as California moves to address regulatory obstacles to fair, actuarially sound insurance underwriting and pricing, the state’s risk profile continues to evolve in ways that underscore the importance of risk-based insurance pricing and investment in mitigation and resilience. Triple-I’s latest “State of the Risk” Issues Brief discusses this changing risk environment and the impact […]
Recent Report Warns of Concerning Climate Change Health Effects –
The negative effects of climate change are usually discussed on a macro level, but studies show it also impacts personal health and well-being. It seems that no part of life is going untouched by climate change. Of course, it is already well-known that the climate is rapidly changing around the world, and as a result, […]