Posts Tagged ‘processing power’

Bitcoin-Mining Android Malware Surfaces on Google Play

Apr

2014

Although Bitcoins are valuable as digital currencies go, mining them is a relatively inefficient way of making money, due to the incredible amount of processing power required to produce them. This has not deterred the malefactor behind the BadLepricon Bitcoin-mining malware, which has made it past Androids first line of defense and into the Google […]

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HTC wants to combine all your Android phones to cure diseases

Feb

2014

With smartphones packing so much processing power these days, HTC reckons we can combine them all to do some meaningful number crunching à la SETI@home and Folding@home. Were talking about curing diseases (AIDS, cancer, Alzheimers and more) as well as searching for alien life. As such, the mobile company has teamed up with UC Berkeleys […]

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Delving Deeply Into a Bitcoin Botnet

May

2013

Bitcoin is a virtual decentralized currency that was created in 2009 by developer Satoshi Nakamoto, who described the currency in a paper. Recently Bitcoin has gotten lots of attention. In early 2013, the prices reached a high of US$265 per Bitcoin. The following chart shows the currency’s historical price:Because Bitcoin is a virtual currency and […]

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