Afterpay says Australian merchants could “advantage noticeably” by transacting with cryptocurrencies instead of classic payment cards, slashing service fees becoming paid out to card issuers, banking institutions and the operators of payments rails. In a submission to the ‘Australia as a Engineering and Fiscal Centre’ senate inquiry, Afterpay appeared to […]

Crypto mining malware has when again qualified Community-Connected Storage (NAS) products of common Taiwanese storage maker QNAP. The new malware, uncovered by scientists at Qihoo 360’s Community Stability Exploration Lab (360 Netlab), is exploiting an previously-patched distant code execution (RCE) vulnerability, which allowed attackers to break into the unit and […]