Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 4/15/23
Bitcoin is not anonymous, Thieves are stealing federal benefits, SIM swapping that originates with stolen credit cards, Ethical hacker implants chips into his body, Google's plan to kill cookies, more
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The U.S. Cracked a $3.4 Billion Crypto Heist—and Bitcoin’s Anonymity
The Wall Street Journal’s Robert McMillan explains how Bitcoin’s supposed anonymity is no longer true, if it ever was, with federal authorities using new tools to pierce the veil of criminal blockchain transactions by tracing the permanent and open online ledgers inherent in cryptocurrency transactions.
When bitcoins are stolen, the criminal is now “like a guy that robbed a bank in the snow,” said Matthew Price, a former IRS investigator who now runs investigations for cryptocurrency exchange Binance Inc. The criminal’s name might b…
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