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United Kingdom regulators ban Crypto Derivaties On 6th of October 2020 the UK regulators from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have announced a ban on sales, marketing and distribution of Crypto Derivaties. The ban will come into effect as soon as 6th of January of 2021 with only 2 months to enforce the regulations by the affected financial institutions. UK's Financial Conduct Authority has been long involved with the crack down on the cryptocurrency derivaties with…
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Cyber Threat On The Rise In the year dominated by the pandemic during which the cyber world has been significantly active, security experts are revealing that the cyber crime has gone through the roof with some techniques getting scarely clever and efficient. Microsoft's security department has recently released a Digital Defense annual report with some interesting findings. https://www.microsoft.com/en/security/business/security-intelligence-report In addition to the…
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Firefox bug allows hijacking mobile browsers Towards the end of the summer Mozilla has patched and disclosed a serious vulnerability affecting its mobile browser Firefox for Android devices urging their users throughout past months to update to Firefox v79 as soon as possible. The bug was reported to Mozilla earlier in the summer by Chris Moberly an Australian security expert working for GitLabs. The vulnerability allows an attacker to target everyone on the same Wi-Fi…
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Vast majority disagrees with United Kingdom's Crypto Derivatives ban Further to the recent news announcing a regulatory ban being enforced preventing retail investors from using Crypto Derivatives solutions from the beginning of new year in the United Kingdom, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has shortly after posted a document which includes information about a survey carried out with some interesting findings inside.…
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Privacy beyond VPN - Browser Isolation With privacy being a topic constantly on the rise, one could naively assume that simply using a VPN sorts out most of our privacy problems. I am afraid it simply doesn't in most cases and the key to staying on top of the game is staying educated. Not till long ago I've realised I was doing a rookie mistake in that with my naivity I've assumed that simply launching a VPN on my everyday PC and carrying on browsing boosts my privacy to a…