European bitcoin exchange Bitcoin Central has suspended its service temporarily, after it was hacked last week. Bitcoin Central’s website said a few hundred bitcoins had been stolen from a hot wallet after an intruder managed to reset the password for its hosting provider’s web interface, locking the exchange out of its own site. The attacker […]
Bitcoin may have been through some hard times lately, what with DDoS attacks, exchanges closing down and massive price fluctuations. But one renowned security expert is defending its basic resilience. Dan Kaminsky thinks it’s OK. Writing in Business Insider, Kaminsky says he tried to hack bitcoin two years ago, and failed. This is a big […]