Although your wallet file is now encrypted, try to avoid uploading it to a cloud service such as Dropbox, as hackers may still try to crack your password. This also makes it easier for others to know ...

Today Bitomat, Poland-based third largest Bitcoin exchange, announced that as of July 26 they lost access to their wallet.dat file and thus the exchange’s entire fund base has become inaccessible. The ...

Turns out, going after someone’s Bitcoin transactions is much easier than you might think. After all, as the saying goes, once you’re pwned, you’re pwned. After Hacking Team, the Italian spyware ...

News is circulating the Internet right now that a serious bug has been discovered in the newly minted “encrypt wallet” functionality of the official client for Bitcoin versions 0.4 and 0.5. The ...

A pair of Trojans are targeting the Bitcoin digital currency, according to two security companies. The Trojans — InfoStealer.Coinbit and CoinBit.A — attempt to steal the wallet.dat file that holds the ...

Most Bitcoin wallet software connects to other servers to verify Bitcoins (BTC) you’ve sent and received. This means that transactions can be linked to your own IP address. Lightweight wallets can ...

A new Remote Access Trojan (RAT) malware that steals Bitcoin wallet data has been discovered by security researchers at Zscaler ThreatLabZ. A new Remote Access Trojan (RAT) malware that steals Bitcoin ...

Back in 2011 I mined for a about six weeks. Until my wife couldn't deal with the noise my AMD 6970 was putting out. I didn't back up the wallet and ultimately formatted the drive. Oh well. Bitcoin was ...