Crypto & Blockchain Security

This article is the second in a four-part series discussing the differences between traditional IT security / cybersecurity and blockchain security.  Check out the...

You may have heard, over the last year or two, about the new technological miracle that is the blockchain. It seems that every banker,...

I’ve been providing blockchain security and crypto compliance training awareness sessions since 2013. I’m sharing my latest blockchain security training material under the Creative Commons...

One attacker and hundreds of copycats looted the Nomad bridge for over $190 million; few did the right thing. Decentralization is a hot-button topic in...

Blockchain is a rapidly-evolving technology with a great deal of interest and investment. Decentralized Finance (DeFi), in particular, has a great deal of money...

Crypto.com, one of the biggest and best known cryptocurrency exchanges in the world announced that 483 of its users were hit in a hack...

Getting to the bottom of the exploit that led to one of the biggest hacks in the history of decentralized finance.  In order to understand...

Proving knowledge of a secret is the basis of password-based authentication systems.  The assumption is that only you know your password.  If this is...

Smart Contract Risk and How to Mitigate It: A Deep-dive The strengths of smart contracts are also the source of its weaknesses, and will always...

Qubit Finance, a major decentralized digital finance platform, was hacked for $80 million in cryptocurrency. The largest crypto-hack so far this year was initially...

Understanding how flash loans and governance work in DeFi to demystify the Beanstalk Farms Hack The only way to understand how the Beanstalk Farms decentralized...

Recent events like the FTX meltdown have sparked interest and conversations about how the incident could have been prevented.  In the case of FTX,...

Code reuse is considered best practice in software engineering.  Reusing high-quality, secure code can speed development processes and often results in higher-quality code than...

Network Attacks: A Deep-dive Network attacks are a class of exploits that focus on the isolation and manipulation of individual nodes or groups of nodes....

The DeFi revolution presents new risks and challenges for innovators, regulators, cybersecurity experts and early adopters of the powerful technology. These are the top...