At the WeAreDevelopers tech conference in Vienna, Steve “Woz” Wozniak compared Ethereum’s platform with Apple and said it could become just as influential, Forbes reported May 18. While delivering his speech at the conference, Wozniak was enthusiastic about Ethereum (ETH), describing it as a platform similar to Apple’s. He said that in the long-term Ethereum can become just as influential as Apple is. He added: “Ethereum interests me because it can do things and because it's a platform.” According to Forbes, Wozniak happened upon Bitcoin and Ethereum in its early days, although he divested from crypto in early 2018. Wozniak …

A rogue incarnation of popular altcoin wallet MyEtherWallet has finally disappeared from Apple’s App Store after gaining significant popularity. Having risen to number three in the marketplace’s finance app category, Apple moderators at last removed the spurious MEW from sight. Despite MEW itself not having an app and its desktop implementation being free to use, the fake charged $4.99 to download. Developers sounded the alarm on social media Dec. 10, but it was not until more than a day later that Apple responded. This is NOT US. We have file reports and emailed and reported. Would appreciate the communities assistance …

A group of researchers in miTLS team have found a new vulnerability in the SSL/TLS protocol. This vulnerability is called FREAK, and it concerns Apple and Android users. The remedy has not been found yet, but decentralized networks on the blockchain model could prevent similar cyber security attacks in the future. Many cyberattacks are due to single point of failures. Users easily trust and use different services in digital world without being aware of threats and vulnerabilities of these services. One of the most useful and common protocols in internet in which most of the banks and services rely on, …