The CoinSec Podcast

Steve Borosh (@424f424f) gives an introduction to mining cryptocurrencies. The hosts chat about the idea of splitting up private keys in different physical locations. News items for the week included VeChain's first ever cryptocurrency disaster recovery plan, reports of North Korea hacking South Korean exchanges, Sia ASIC miner drama, and discussion around millions being stolen from ICO's every month. Lastly the group chats about the penetration testing and bug bounty token Hacken.io.

This episode welcomes Chris Gates (AKA carnal0wnage) to the show to discuss how he got into cryptocurrency, and his new cryptocurrency project "The Great Altcoin Chase" (www.thegreataltcoinchase.com). Oracle WebLogic servers were being exploited to mine Monero, and Checkpoint states that Coinhive was the most prevalent malware of December, 2017. The Stellar Lumens wallet Blackwallet.co was DNS hijacked, and a vulnerability related to hijacking Lisk accounts was discussed.

In this inaugural episode of the CoinSec Podcast each host provided a brief history of their involvement in the InfoSec industry, and how they each got into cryptocurrency. Discussions were had around the latest vulnerabilities in the crypto space. Critical Electrum & Parity wallet vulns were discovered. Overstock.com had a critical vulnerability specifically related to Bitcoin payments. Also discussed was how malware authors are moving away from Bitcoin to Monero as a form of payment. The hosts did a deep dive into the PolySwarm ICO. Lastly, for those new to cryptocurrency a discussion around getting started with various exchanges was had.