Phone Phishing

The old-fashioned telephone turns out to be a way to hack into other people’s accounts. Voya Financial was the victim of cybercriminals using their phones instead of their computers. Voya ran the portal for its investment advisers and registered representatives to to manage the accounts of their customers. Voya also had a support line to … Read more »

Blockchain Exchange Commission

Worried about the security of your cyptocurrency? How about having the Blockchain Exchange Commission protect you. It won’t. According to a complaint filed by Securities and Exchange Commission, Reginald Ringgold is a founding member of this very prestigious-sounding, regulatory-sounding Blockchain Exchange Commission. According to it’s LinkedIn page: The mission of the [Blockchain Exchange Commission] is to protect … Read more »

“Crypto is the Mother of All Scams”

It looks like the testimony will not be subtle at the Senate Banking Committee today entitled: Exploring the Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Ecosystem. Peter Van Valkenburgh, Director Of Research at Coin Center, spends his time trying to explain blockchain by calling it decentralized computing. I’m going to guess that his presentation falls on ears that have … Read more »

Weekend Reading: 2020 Commission Report on North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States

Jeffrey Lewis’s first novel is speculative fiction with a terrifying title: 2020 Commission Report on North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States. It’s attempting to give us hindsight about the future. Obviously, from the title, things go wrong. Very wrong. Mr. Lewis is expert on the North Korean nuclear weapons program. He is the Director … Read more »