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ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking

Wade Mackey

Why Cryptojacking Is The Next Big Cybersecurity Threat

October 24, 2017 by Jonathan Duani 1 Comment

I thought this was a pretty interesting article with the cryptocurrency boom that has been going on lately. The article talks about code in different websites that will use the resources on your computer to mine for these cryptocurrency. The end user will never know that it is exist and the person who add this code to the site will be making a ton of money off your computers resources. Do you think this is ok?

 

Source: http://fortune.com/2017/10/23/bitcoin-monero-cryptocurrency-mining-security-threat/

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  1. Joseph Nguyen says

    October 27, 2017 at 12:00 am

    Wait for the quantum computer…

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