News, stories and events about currency from around the world.
The nature of identity fraud is changing. With the rollout of smart chips in credit and debit cards making it more difficult to steal using cards themselves, thieves have their eyes on your data instead.
Hackers who gain control of a smartwatch can record hand motion down to the millimeter and steal PIN numbers when they are entered at ATMs with 80 percent accuracy on the first try, and over 90 percent accuracy after three tries, according to researchers at the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey and Binghamton University in New York.
Bitcoin halving is often referred as “Halvening”, it’s a formulated reduction in the reward coins offered to the miners using a predefined blockchain algorithm. Learn exactly what that means to the bitocoin community and how it may affect you.
