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Salon Finds A Novel Workaround For Lost Ad Revenue: Cryptocurrency Mining
Wednesday, February 14, 2018 - 3:54pmOnline publication Salon announced in a blog post that the website will mine cryptocurrency with the unused processing power in a reader's computer when they turn on ad-blockers while reading the online magazine. A Revenue Model In Decline Salon said newspaper ad revenues fell...
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Google Chrome Browser Extension Caught Mining Cryptocurrency
Tuesday, January 2, 2018 - 3:00pmAlphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) removed its archive poster Chrome extension Tuesday after some of its 105,000 users reported the surreptitious deployment of an in-browser CoinHive miner. Early reports suggest the Monero mining script was present on at least four updates of the extension, which...
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Cryptocurrencies And Crime: A 'Cat-And-Mouse Game' With Law Enforcement
Tuesday, January 2, 2018 - 11:45amCash was once the preferred form of currency for criminals, but the difficulty in tracing cryptocurrencies has many turning to them for underground activity. The Currency Of The Dark Web Bitcoin — encrypted data that's based on blockchain code and is transferrable between...
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Here's How You Could Be A Pawn In The Cryptocurrency Game
Tuesday, November 14, 2017 - 8:39amMaybe you’re a skeptic, or maybe you want in but don’t know how. But while you fail to benefit from the bitcoin boom, you may be an unwitting instrument in another’s cryptocurrency work. Cryptocurrency miners have been hijacking consumer central processing units to steal...
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