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Title: [2014-08-07] Guardian: Hacker makes $84k hijacking Bitcoin mining pool Post by: botany on August 07, 2014, 06:12:14 PM Hacker makes $84k hijacking Bitcoin mining pool
www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/07/hacker-bitcoin-mining-pool-internet-service-providers-canada-dell Some words of praise for the hacker.... The researchers were impressed by the ingenuity of the hacker, saying it was a “great idea”, at least from a criminal perspective. :P Title: Re: [2014-08-07] Guardian: Hacker makes $84k hijacking Bitcoin mining pool Post by: aigeezer on August 07, 2014, 06:21:22 PM But wait, there's more! "As many as 8,000 Dogecoins, equivalent to $1.42, were lost as a result of the hack." (No kidding, that's a real quote from the story).
Title: Re: [2014-08-07] Guardian: Hacker makes $84k hijacking Bitcoin mining pool Post by: botany on August 07, 2014, 06:30:56 PM But wait, there's more! "As many as 8,000 Dogecoins, equivalent to $1.42, were lost as a result of the hack." (No kidding, that's a real quote from the story). Apart from bitcoins and dogecoins, he also mined HoboNickels and WorldCoins. I am presuming the value of this would be less than $1.42, as it wasn't even mentioned. :P Title: Re: [2014-08-07] Guardian: Hacker makes $84k hijacking Bitcoin mining pool Post by: Kprawn on August 07, 2014, 06:38:28 PM They did not use SSL so what did they expect? Some of these operators have no clue... They take out of the box solutions and think it's secure if they use default values. :(
Do the basics right, and you half way covered. Title: Re: [2014-08-07] Guardian: Hacker makes $84k hijacking Bitcoin mining pool Post by: southern on August 07, 2014, 06:53:55 PM Hacker makes $84k hijacking Bitcoin mining pool www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/07/hacker-bitcoin-mining-pool-internet-service-providers-canada-dell Some words of praise for the hacker.... The researchers were impressed by the ingenuity of the hacker, saying it was a “great idea”, at least from a criminal perspective. :P They got a nice amount, wonder how much it will be worth in a few years |