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Title: 2012-05-18 softpedia.com: Bitcoin Developers Address Denial-of-Service Post by: PawShaker on May 18, 2012, 02:46:10 PM Quote Bitcoin Developers Address Denial-of-Service Vulnerability May 18th, 2012, 13:35 GMT · By Eduard Kovacs Bitcoin has released a new variant of the peer-to-peer digital currency system to address a denial-of-service (DOS) vulnerability that could have been leveraged by an attacker to isolate a victim’s node and create blockchain forks. The security hole, considered to be critical, has been found by Forrest Voight, a 19-year-old computer programmer. [...] http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bitcoin-Developers-Address-Denial-of-Service-Vulnerability-270453.shtml (http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bitcoin-Developers-Address-Denial-of-Service-Vulnerability-270453.shtml) |