The Texas House of Representatives have passed a bill that will require crypto companies to prove they have sufficient assets to handle user obligations. - The bill designates that companies must provide personalized quarterly accounting reports, maintain sufficient reserves to cover crypto deposits.. read more  

Several crypto companies raised a total of approximately $169 million this week, which is a little less than double last week's funding but falls short of the first week of April. - Unchained, a bitcoin custody solution and collateralized lender, raised $60 million in its series B round, making it t.. read more  

After the failure ofDiem, a cryptocurrency project from Meta, and the loss of talented individuals,AptosandSuiwere developed using parallel execution methods and the Move programming language. Aptos aims to rival Bitcoin and Ethereum by creating a secure, scalable, and flexible infrastructure, whil.. read more  

A recent report by DappRadar suggests thatPolygon is currently the top choice blockchain for the gaming industry, with Ethereum and Algorand coming in closely behind. The report notes that Asia is the long driving force behind the global gaming industry, with China, Japan, and South Korea dominatin.. read more  

Coinbase's Base, an Ethereum-focused layer 2 blockchain, is planning to launch its mainnet in 2023, according to an interview with Jesse Pollak, the lead for Base and head of protocols at Coinbase. The platform aims to bring a million builders and a billion users on-chain through easy-to-use produc.. read more  

Consensus mechanisms are gamified protocols that enable a decentralized computer network to agree on a blockchain state. They aim to provide a balance of security, scalability, and decentralization to the network. Proof of work (PoW) and proof of stake (PoS) are the main consensus mechanisms used i.. read more  

This post explains how to deploy three email security mechanisms on AWS: BIMI, MTA-STS, and SMTP TLS reporting, to prevent your domain from being used in phishing attacks and improve your organization's email security. - Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI)allows you to display a logo .. read more  

TLDR: NCC Group selected to perform K8s security evaluation in response to K8s sig security’s third-party audit request proposal. Security architectural design review and dynamic pen testing were conducted, revealing vulnerabilities in component communication and input sanitization. Key findings in.. read more  

Researchers have discovered a Python-based credential harvesting and hack tool named Legion, which is sold via the Telegram messenger. Legion is designed to exploit various services for email abuse, including SMTP servers, Apache vulnerabilities, and AWS services, among other things. The tool also .. read more  

Github accidentally committed their SSH RSA private key to a repository, causing infrastructure to break for many users who needed to update their keys. This issue could have been avoided if SSH used certificates like TLS does, but SSH uses a Trust on First Use model which can lead to users blindly.. read more