Tag: blockchain

October 25, 2022

According to data from the Rekt leaderboard, cybercriminals have stolen as much as $3 billion of investor funds through 141 various cryptocurrency exploits since January, putting 2022 on track to top 2021 levels of digital currency malfeasance. Comparitech’s cryptocurrency heists […]

May 5, 2021

FreedomFi and Helium have partnered up to help mobile network operators (MNOs) accelerate their 5G coverage. FreedomFi Gateways, a consumer-deployed connectivity device that pairs with 5G antennas, have been designed to interoperate with the Helium Network, which is a decentralized […]

July 15, 2020

Blockchain, a technology that establishes a shared, immutable record of transactions within a network, has been on the radar of communication service providers (CSPs) for some time now, and according to an Accenture survey, that interest is only increasing. The […]

December 11, 2019

Three-quarters of companies implementing IoT have already adopted blockchain or plan to use it by the end of 2020, an indicator of the growing connection between the two, according to a survey of 500 U.S. companies by Gartner. While the […]

October 22, 2019

If you believe the hype, blockchain will solve most of the world’s problems, from coffee growing and logistics to shipping, medicine delivery and voting. It’s also seen as a tool to improve security, maybe even kill the password. Analysts don’t […]

September 24, 2019

The increasing emphasis on data privacy gained widespread attention last year with the enforcement deadline of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Regardless of your perspective on GDPR and its impact on enterprises, the need for organizations to provide more […]

April 4, 2019

Companies have found that IoT partners well with a host of other popular enterprise computing technologies of late, and blockchain – the innovative system of distributed trust most famous for underpinning cryptocurrencies – is no exception. Yet while the two […]

March 8, 2019

The organization behind most of the world’s cross-border money and security transfers is deploying a blockchain proof-of-concept (PoC) for clients’ shareholders to use in electronic voting. SWIFT said this week it will jointly conduct the PoC in the Asia Pacific […]

March 7, 2019

Ethernet networking technology is flawed, say some engineers. The problem is it doesn’t have any inherent security built in to it. Ethernet also hard to manage because it’s centralized. It’s out-of-date, and it needs revamping, researchers say. One attempt to […]

December 28, 2018

A lot can happen in a year, especially in a telecoms year. The industry has seen consolidation, disruption and innovation, all at a dizzying pace. 2018 saw the hype around technologies such as AI and blockchain reach fever pitch, and […]

August 6, 2018

Securing the blockchain ecosystem is the most challenging cybersecurity problem right now. The blockchain itself might be secure, but that doesn’t mean that all the pieces that intersect with it – wallets, exchanges, miners, smart contracts – are secure. And […]

February 6, 2018

Blockchain is a decentralized, distributed electronic ledger built on the model of offering absolute security and trust. Using cryptography, transactions are recorded chronologically and publicly, each one time-stamped and linked to the previous one. Critically, these digital ‘blocks’ can only […]

January 19, 2018

Four self-driving cars head toward an intersection at the same time. One plans to go straight, three want to turn, and all vehicles want to get their passengers to destinations as swiftly as possible. Approaching the intersection, each autonomous vehicle […]

January 18, 2018

Blockchain use cases for telcos Blockchain is poised to disrupt the telecom industry. The technology provides users with a distributed, decentralized way to conduct online transactions with an assembly of records called blocks, which are strung together using the mathematical […]

January 5, 2018

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced it is investing in blockchain technology through its partner ecosystem program. According to the company, the AWS Blockchain Partners Program supports customer integration of blockchain solutions with systems built on AWS. Among the Blockchain […]

January 2, 2018

What is blockchain? A frequently discussed technology in popular culture is blockchain, which is changing the way digital transactions are made online. Despite the widespread attention it has received, blockchain technology isn’t exactly simple, leading to confusion around the topic. […]

May 10, 2017

The Linux Foundation announced a new software project under its Hyperledger open consortium aimed at creating a collaboration tool for building blockchain business networks — or smart contracts — and their deployment across a distributed ledger. The new project, called […]

April 24, 2017

If the financial services industry is banking on blockchain as the basis for new service innovation, it will be sorely disappointed. Blockchain’s design principles are completely at odds with those of the industry, and the technology is fraught with flaws […]

April 24, 2017

Blockchain sounds like a way to keep boats anchored, which isn’t a bad analogy, considering what the technology purports to do. While some IT experts herald it as a groundbreaking way of creating a distributed, unchangeable record of transactions, others […]

April 20, 2017

Practitioners in the telecommunications space are almost universally aware of the ISO/OSI network management models. These models, along with work done in the International Telecommunications Union, have long defined the dominant model for fault, configuration, account, performance, and security management, […]