Software

The internet today has made life easier by giving several opportunities to people such as freelancers. People no longer suffer from challenges in places of work, they have turned their homes into offices.

A new deadly virus known as Dharma is seriously infecting computers (PCs) and servers by encrypting and locking files, which can only be successfully unlocked via a Bitcoin payment, responsible authorities warned on October 16, 2018.

Agreed, Adobe Flash still works, regrettably, and that means it's still employed as a method to target ignorant users with malicious malware. As you would think, the latest malware to attract big attention masks itself as an update to Flash to trick users into installing malevolent software.

Bitcoin is usually said to be the gold standard for digital currencies, but still, the OG Blockchain-based money has highly catastrophic defects hiding in the software that supports it.

In the Ontario province of Canada, there is a town known as Midland with a population of over 16,000 people. Recently, its computer systems have been hacked and infected with deadly ransom malware.

R3 officially announced it is going to launch a new version of its open-source distributed ledger software. The key update will include a built-in application firewall. The fintech tool had been under development for almost three years before it was ready for release.

As more technology is being introduced into the world of cryptocurrency, Opera is launching new improved browser software which has a built-in crypto wallet.

As slavery is still an aching issue for a very large number of people across the globe, Moldova, Europe's leading human trafficking zoar, is working tirelessly in developing a large planned blockchain endeavour with the hopes of tackling its 10 years long seriously puzzling circumstance which is showing no signs of stopping. The prominent blockchain technology has not only tackled the issues of economy and financial market but has also shown a great capability of saving human lives on a large scale.

A lot of Mac users described in the last few weeks that a process dubbed ‘mshelper’ was consuming a lot of CPU power, whirring fans a little too fast and totally draining their batteries within a very short time. This turned out that the process is highly related and associated with a type of malware created to mine for Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency.