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This Monday, the CEO of Binancethe main exchange of exchange of cryptocurrencies of the world, defended a”best regulation in the sector” after the earthquake that suffered FTX and which led him to bankruptcy. The sector is in crisis Bitcoin trades above US$16,000while Ethereum does it above the U$1200. The crisis of digital currencies deepened and some analysts considering that the BTC could fall below the $10,000. The collapse is a consequence of the impressive FTX collapse, one of the largest and most powerful players in the industry. “We need certain regulations to protect customers and to make the sector more…

In recent years WhatsApp (WPP) was located as the social red preferred by Argentines, with about 95% of all internet users interacting on this messaging platform, according to data from the consulting firm Statista. If we add to this that Argentina has 39 million users of the network of networks and that 78% have a smartphoneit begins to be evident why the WPP has become, in recent times, a "the" tool chosen to concretize digital deceptions. “In the last quarter, the scam that we registered the most are the variations of messages that arrive through WPP saying something like “Whoa!…

diego fernandezSecretary of Innovation and Digital Transformation of the Government of the City of Buenos Airesannounced that QuarkID, the digital identity protocol self sovereign Promoted by the Buenos Aires Government and which was co-created in the community, it will be launched in January. Fernández advanced that the objective of quark ID is to give people back control over their data. The idea is that all the credentials that a person needs are digitized in one place, with a safety standard soaring through technology block chain. How is the project that promotes Horacio Larreta to pay taxes with cryptocurrencies The secretary…

Google was fined a million-dollar figure accused of tracking the location of its users without authorization, after a lawsuit promoted in the North American court by 40 states. The technological giant, part of the holding Alphabetshall pay 400 million dollars by the system tracking you use and also be more transparent with your consumers when you enable location tracking on the phone. To do this, you will have to offer detailed information on a web page about this data. The investigation promoted by the lawyers of the different states began in 2018, when it was discovered that Google was locating…

A “substantial amount” of FTX Group assets “were stolen or are missing”an attorney representing the company told a bankruptcy court Tuesday. "Unfortunately, FTX debtors were not particularly well managedand that's an understatement,” said James Bromley, co-director of construction at the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, a judge in Wilmington, Delaware. The fall of Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto empire happened very quickly and was “pretty shocking,” Bromley said. he qualified “unprecedented” Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. The FTX team is also coordinating with regulators in the US and around the world. "Probably, we have witnessed one of the most abrupt and difficult corporate…

lemon cash had denied last week that it would be seen shocked due to the collapse of the exchange FOOTX of cryptocurrencies. However, long before the firm he led Sam Bankman-fried the Exchange was an investor of the Argentine fintech. At the beginning of this 2022, FTX had received as minority investor in an extension of the investment round it carried out lemon cash which, as far as I could find out bloomberg linestill has own funds held on the exchange which filed for bankruptcy in early November. This added to the funding crisis that startups go through due to…

The fall in the value of cryptocurrencies in the last year is due to a confluence of factors, among them the fhigh liquidity of the main operators and the central banksthe increases in interest rates for savers' bonds and a hardened macroeconomic framework after the contraction of the economies suffered during the pandemic. The risk in crypto investment and the security of bank interest also contributed to the collapse of the virtual currency that that same year and after historical levels, began its recovery. Bitcoin posts its longest winning streak in nearly a decade To this we must add the…

Every year Black Friday generates an increase exponential in transactions online, converting consumers and businesses into a goal for scammers and the cybercriminals they are always lurking. Among the most frequent victims are small and medium-sized companies due to their high infrastructures limited distribution and protection capacity. The large amounts of online credit, debit card, and point-of-sale (POS) transactions that take place during the sale dayadded to the huge wave of data available, without the need to black Friday an attraction for cybercriminals. How to protect yourself from the main threats? A report prepared by Thales, the French world leader…

With the advancement of technology, the scams they become more and more complex. In recent weeks, concern has grown over the "double call"a new social engineering technique to extract data and money from users. This scam is related to the smishing and vishing. The first consists of the sending an SMS message posing as a legitimate entity such as an institution, a bank or a social network. The purpose is to obtain confidential information or make a financial charge. Normally, these SMS contain a link that redirects to a fake website or a premium rate phone number. Alert for the…