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Facing criticism from the City Council, the head of the Baltimore IT office apologized for doing a poor job of sharing information after the ransomware attack.

By Ian Duncan

Jun 7, 2019

People whose last minute payments to avoid the annual tax auction were disrupted by ransomware attack will be "held harmless," a Baltimore official said Monday

By Ian Duncan

May 13, 2019

Over the past few months, there are have been numerous articles reporting that millennials are among the groups most interested in cryptocurrency. According to a Feb 2019 survey from investment platform eToro, "43% of millennial respondents said they trusted cryptocurrency exchanges more than U.S. stock exchanges." (There were 1,000 total respondents in the survey, ranging from the ages of 20-65). When so many others are predicting doom for crypto, why are millennials bucking the trend and seeing a bright future for digital currency? Is it the excitement of the "Wild West" un-regulated nature of the digital currency financial markets that ...

What are security tokens? Hyped as the next big thing in cryptocurrency, in the last year or so security tokens have been receiving lots of attention. The battle between unchained cryptocurrency marketplaces and regulators is ongoing. It definitely pays being on the front lines to watch the drama as it plays out. Antoine Tardif is the founder of Securities.io , a security token news site that looks closely at all of the latest news, views and tales from the space. It should come as no surprise that he has been following the space closely. Antoine ...

A 34-year-old man has admitted in federal court to manufacturing thousands of knock-off Xanax pills in the basement of his parents’ Sparks home, and selling them for millions of dollars on a dark corner of the internet. He called himself “Xanaxman.”

By Tim Prudente

Oct 2, 2018

Federal authorities say Ryan Farace ran a secret online business from homes in Baltimore County peddling millions of dollars worth of fake Xanax pills.

By Ian Duncan

Jun 22, 2018

Many of the biggest events of 2018 will be bound together by a common theme, namely the collision of the virtual internet with the real "flesh and blood" world. This integration is likely to steer our daily lives, our economy and maybe even politics to an unprecedented degree.

Five members of the District of Columbia National Guard used the online currency Bitcoin to buy stolen credit card information and make big purchases at stores on military bases, federal prosecutors said Monday.

By Ian Duncan

May 23, 2016

Someone or group has stolen personal information from an unknown number of Baltimore City employees and filed fraudulent tax returns, the city announced Thursday to all employees.

By Tim Prudente

Apr 14, 2016

MedStar Health is disputing a report by the Associated Press that the hospital company knew as early as 2007 about weaknesses in its system, which led to a massive cyber attack that encrypted its files.

By Andrea K. McDaniels

Apr 6, 2016

MedStar Health said Sunday it had restored use of the computer system physicians use to access medical records of its ten hospitals remotely, according to an update on its website.

By Andrea K. McDaniels

Apr 3, 2016

For all the enthusiasm about adopting electronic medical records, security remains a worry.

MedStar Health said 90 percent of its computer systems are back online Friday after it fell victim to a crippling attack that encrypted data this week.

By Ian Duncan

Apr 1, 2016

The hackers who locked up data on MedStar's computers this week are demanding ransom to begin unlocking it — and they're offering a bulk discount to release all of it, according to a copy of the demands obtained by the Baltimore Sun.

Hospitals are riddled with cybersecurity flaws that could let attackers break into medical devices connected to the Internet and kill patients, a team of Baltimore based researchers has concluded after a two-year investigation.

By Ian Duncan

Feb 26, 2016

A group of researchers at the University of Maryland, College Park, are among a small number of scientists working to erase a lag between uptake of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies and understanding of them.

By Scott Dance

Aug 28, 2015

A former Secret Service agent will plead guilty to charges connected with the theft of electronic currency during a high-profile investigation into online drug bazaar Silk Road, federal prosecutors said.

A company that plans to install as many as 100 bitcoin ATMs by year's end installed the region's first of the machines Monday night at Fells Point bar Bad Decisions.

By Scott Dance

Oct 20, 2014

Jacob Theodore George IV, 33, sold heroin through online marketplace

Baltimore startup Bitsie is seeking to boost uptake of digital currency bitcoin, beyond local businesses like bar Bad Decisions.

State officials are warning consumers to pay attention to their e-wallets

State financial regulators and the attorney general issued a warning Friday about bitcoin and other virtual currencies, saying buyers — and sellers — should be wary.

Ozzy Osbourne has endorsed soda, a cellphone and even imitation butter spread. But one product the Prince of Darkness apparently does not approve is Ozzy, the Belgian-style strong pale ale made by the Baltimore-based company The Brewer's Art. The local brewery received a cease-and-desist letter from representatives of Osbourne, the hard-rock-forefather-turned-reality-TV-star, Brewer's Art co-owner Tom Creegan said.

Criticism of Bitcoin in wake of hacked exchange is unfair and off-target

Bitcoin believers were shaken to their digital souls when Mt. Gox, the world's largest exchange, defaulted on $470 billion worth of deposits and closed.

Bitcoin believers were shaken to their digital souls when Mt. Gox, the world's largest exchange, defaulted on $470 billion worth of deposits and closed.

The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland gave us an excellent window into the concerns that world leaders have about the global economy — particularly China's shadow banking system. But while the concern may be legitimate, the expressed fear — that China will implode from the weight of the system's problems — appears overblown.

Inside a drab computer lab at the Johns Hopkins University, a team of researchers is trying to build something that has never existed before: a digital currency that changes hands completely in secret. Its name is Zerocoin.

A Columbia mobile web software firm said Thursday that it will accept payments in Bitcoin — the digital currency that shot up in value this year — and will give a 5 percent discount to customers who use it.

Research by mainstream academics like Johns Hopkins' Matthew Green into digital currency is vital.