In a blog post today, Coinbase announced that its public debut will be a direct listing instead of a traditional IPO. From the announcement: Coinbase Global, Inc. today announced its intent to become a publicly-traded company pursuant to a proposed direct listing of its Class A common stock. Such proposed listing is expected to be pursuant to a registration statement on…
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After 28 Years, Tucows Finally Closes Its Downloads Site
“We have made the difficult decision to retire the Tucows Downloads site,” writes CEO Elliot Noss in a blog post at Tucows.com/retired: We’re pleased to say that much of the software and other assets that made up the Tucows Downloads library have been transferred to our friends at the Internet Archive for posterity. The shareware downloads bulletin board system (BBS) that…
81,000 UK-Owned .EU Domains Suspended As Brexit Transition Ends
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Tens of thousands of website owners who are based in the UK might have started the year with an unpleasant surprise: Eurid, the registry manager of .eu domain names, has suspended .eu domain names registered by UK citizens as a result of the regulatory changes caused by Brexit. Suspended domain names can no…
BMW Backtracks: ‘We Do Not Draw on Warranty Status’ For Targeted Ads
BMW has told Motoring Research its targeted billboard warranty adverts — which are claimed to use number plate registration technology to tailor public adverts to BMW drivers — do not actually draw upon vehicle warranty status. From a report: Rather, only publically available information is used. “There is no personalisation visible on the advert and no vehicle or customer data is…
As Bitcoin Surges, Prominent Cryptocurrency Exchange Coinbase Aims To Go Public
Cryptocurrency brokerage Coinbase said Thursday that it has filed a draft registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, paving the way for plans for an eventual initial public offering. CNN reports: The announcement comes as interest in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has soared during the coronavirus pandemic. Investors have found such currencies attractive as the US dollar weakens. Bitcoin has…
Microsoft: 2021 Is the Year Passwords Die
Usama Jawad writes via Neowin: has been a proponent of passwordless technology for quite some time, saying that it wants traditional and unsafe passwords to die. To that end, it has invested in various solutions over the past few years such as Windows Hello, Microsoft Authenticator, FIDO2 security keys, and a palm vein authentication system, among other things. Now, the company…
FireEye, a Top Cybersecurity Firm, Says It Was Hacked By a Nation-State
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times : For years, the cybersecurity firm FireEye has been the first call for government agencies and companies around the world who have been hacked by the most sophisticated attackers, or fear they might be. Now it looks like the hackers — in this case, evidence points to Russia’s intelligence agencies…
Pirate Bay Founder Warns US Govt Against Mafia-Esque Copyright Lobby
One of the original founders of The Pirate Bay, Peter Sunde, is warning against the power American corporations have on the internet. After several copyright industry groups reported Sunde’s domain registration service Njalla to the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), branding it a “notorious market,” Sunde wrote a letter to the USTR, not to defend Njalla but to warn against the threat…
Email and Web Traffic Redirected for Multiple Cryptocurrency Sites After GoDaddy Attack
“Fraudsters redirected email and web traffic destined for several cryptocurrency trading platforms over the past week,” reports security researcher Brian Krebs: The attacks were facilitated by scams targeting employees at GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, KrebsOnSecurity has learned… This latest campaign appears to have begun on or around Nov. 13, with an attack on cryptocurrency trading platform liquid.com. “A…
Data Breach Exposes 27 Million Texas Driver’s License Records
“A software company that provides services for insurance groups disclosed this week that about 27.7 million Texas driver’s license records were exposed in a data breach earlier this year,” reports The Hill: The company, Vertafore, said in a statement posted on a website set up to address the breach that the data was exposed between March and August and affected licenses…