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Can you tell me how can this website infect me? [duplicate]
Thi is the website: hxxp://host7.freehost7.com/contents/F51a424ff10912/
another website that looked exactly the same was probably taken down since I get this warning hxxp://securesignupoffers.org/g/ ...
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With ASIC bitcoin miners, should SHA256 be considered insecure for password hashing?
I'm sure everyone here has seen the rise and further rise of bitcoin. The process used for mining bitcoin is basically "let's brute force an SHA256 hash that is less than this amount"
That being ...
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Detect Bitcoin Mining
So, me and a network administrator friend were discussing about bitcoin mining. With so many portable bitcoin mining software, we wanted to find the different ways to detect them in the network.
How ...
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Safest way to keep an offline bitcoin wallet
Keeping a large amount of bitcoins in an online computer is dangerous. The bitcoin wallet is merely a file, and once the file has been copied the bitcoins can be transferred to another account. ...
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Best practices for operating a Bitcoin-Qt client regarding netwok privacy?
As privacy is part of security, I know there is a Bitcoin SE here but they couldn't answer my question so I hope it's appropriate to ask it here.
I don't ask about how to secure my wallet on my ...
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Security of SHA256 and Bitcoins
The Bitcoin network use SHA256 as a core component to it's design. I'm no expert on cryptography, but it seems to me it usually is only a matter of time before security vulnerabilities are discovered ...
