Digital-assets exchange Coinbase Inc. has unveiled a new service designed to help merchants accept cryptocurrency payments, according to a recent blog post by the San Francisco-based company. The service, called Coinbase Commerce, will allow businesses to accept payments in Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, and Litecoin. These payments can be deposited directly into the merchant’s digital …
Following its iOS launch last December, Facebook’s Messenger Kids app is now available on Android. It’s like Messenger, except it comes with parent-friendly features like the ability to manage your child’s contact list, a registration process that’s independent of the social network, and persistent messages so you can keep an eye on conversations. There’s also …
The European Commission has suggested that law enforcement authorities could soon have restricted access to the WHOIS database that identifies website owners because the system is on a collision course with the EU’s strict new data protection law. Law enforcement authorities have complained to the Commission about plans to change the system in May because …
The official Winter Olympics website was taken offline after being hit by a cyber-attack, officials have confirmed. The site was affected just before the beginning of the opening ceremony in Pyeongchang, South Korea. TV and internet systems at the Games were also disrupted, though operations were restored about 12 hours later. However, a spokesman said …
The ICANN board in its main agenda for the regular meeting, were at the time set to discuss the formal considerations of both the Amazon EU S.à.r.l. v. ICANN Independent Review Process Final Declaration followed by the further Consideration of the Gulf Cooperation Council v. ICANN Independent Review Process Final Declarations. Both applicants prevailed against …
A landmark court ruling in Sweden could have dire consequences for those using torrent sites like the Pirate Bay to download pirate films and TV shows. One of Sweden’s key internet service providers (ISP’s), Bahnhof, has been ordered to provide the names of customers using its services to download pirated content. Bahnhof is a popular …
It appears that the European Commission (EC) is not very impressed with a quickly prepared 12-point proposal by ICANN to resolve the conflict between the domain name system’s Whosis service and the GDPR which will officialy be launched in May 2017. “Given the level of abstraction of the models, it is difficult to assess the …
Many government and other websites were hijacked to mine the cryptocurrency Monero on Sunday. A list of affected websites can be viewed here: Texthelp Browsealoud security issue The malicious code was first spotted by UK-based infosec consultant Scott Helme, and confirmed by The Register. He recommended webmasters try a technique called SRI – Subresource Integrity – …
ICANN’s board has eventually passed an inevitable resolution confirming that it will not delegate the .mail, .home and .corp strings as part of 2012 round of new top level domain name expansion, and has authorized a full refund for companies that applied for these strings. The strings were shelved due to concerns about name collisions. …
A new strain of point-of-sale (PoS) malware is disguising itself as a LogMeIn service pack to hide the theft of customer data. On Thursday, Forcepoint researchers Robert Neumann and Luke Somerville said in a blog post that a new malware family, dubbed UDPoS, attempts to disguise itself as legitimate services to avoid detection while transferring …