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Post by ZETAR on Feb 5, 2021 3:38:58 GMT
The St. Clair County Illinois Sightings of January, 2000, 1
Southwestern Illinois, January 5, 2000, about 4:00 a.m.
Anyone who has been in Illinois in January knows that when the sun goes down, it gets cold... real cold. The night of January 5, 2000, was no exception. Everyone who could was staying warm inside, but all did not have this luxury.
Melvin Knoll's livelihood was his miniature golf course, and worried that something may have frozen there, he braved the cold night to make sure everything was OK.
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When he arrived at his business, he noticed what he thought was a very bright star on the northeastern horizon.
He thought nothing of it at the time, and finished checking out the golf course. After satisfying himself that all was well, he jumped back into his warm truck to head home. As he did, he could not help but notice that the light was still there, and even more visible than before.
He watched it for a moment, and it suddenly seemed to be coming straight toward him! As it came nearer, he could see red lights shining toward the ground.
As it came even closer, the object appeared to be as tall as a two-story building, and as long as a football field. He could now clearly see windows, and a brightly lit inside.
He could not hear a sound from the unknown object as it continued to slowly make its way through the chilly night in a southwesterly direction.
Fearing that he would be laughed at if he could not provide corroboration, he quickly made his way to the local police in Highland. He related his story to the dispatcher, and she agreed to pass the information to the next town in the object's path, which was Central Communications in St. Clair County.
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Post by ZETAR on Feb 5, 2021 4:05:08 GMT
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Post by ZETAR on Feb 5, 2021 13:48:50 GMT
Hacker Steals $2.8 Million from Cryptocurrency 'Vault' Despite 'Unhackable' Blockchain Security
On Thursday evening, an unknown entity stole $2.8 million from a shared digital "vault" on the investment website Yearn.finance. The culprit exploited the vault using Aave, an open-source cryptocurrency platform that allows people to make "flash loans," a rapid borrowing and repaying of money without the need for collateral.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/hacker-steals-2-8-million-from-cryptocurrency-vault-despite-unhackable-blockchain-security/ar-BB1dp3LA?ocid=msedgntp
Yearn.finance has yet to issue a full report explaining exactly what happened, but the theft may show that blockchains, a security technology behind cryptocurrency transactions once thought to be "unhackable," actually have vulnerabilities.
To understand what happened, one must understand a little bit about how Yearn.finance works.
Yearn.finance allows its users to deposit funds in collective digital pools called "vaults." The vaults are then handled like actively managed mutual funds, with the funds used in other "decentralized finance" or "DeFi" offerings with the goal of generating additional earnings.
Specifically, Yearn.finance bases its transactions on Ethereum, a versatile cryptocurrency that can be processed through programming codes for various functions, called "smart contracts." Like other cryptocurrencies, Ethereum tracks all of its uses through blockchains, digital records that store information of every transaction and are verified by multiple computers in a decentralized network.
In this case, the thief exploited the vault by issuing an Aave flash loan, allowing them to quickly drain the vault before they could be stopped.
News of the theft first broke on Discord, a community-centered instant messaging and digital distribution platform on Thursday evening.
At 4:38 p.m., Jeffrey Bongos, a user on Yearn's Discord server, wrote, "Anyone know why v1Dai vault is showing that I've lost thousands of Dai in the last few minutes?" His comment was reported by Yahoo! Finance.
Bongos' mention of "DAI" refers to a type of "stable coin" designed to maintain 1-to-1 parity between Ethereum and the U.S. dollar. Simply put, the Ethereum pooled in the vault was expressed in U.S. dollars.
A little after 5 p.m., the Yearn website showed the vault having sustained a loss of 1059 percent. At 5:14 p.m., a member of Yearn.finance's team wrote on Discord, "Attacker got away with 2.8m."
While details of the transaction are publicly available on Etherscan—a website that contains blockchain information such as digital addresses where transactions originated from, cryptocurrency prices and other activities—Yearn.finance has not yet revealed additional information about the culprit, their method or location.
Newsweek contacted Yearn.finance for comment.
When cryptocurrencies first emerged, advocates said that blockchain technology would prevent theft because multiple computers in a non-centralized network would have to validate each and every transaction.
However, a February 2019 report by the MIT Technology Review stated that hackers have stolen nearly $2 billion worth of cryptocurrency since the start of 2017, partly because they've figured out ways to hack blockchains by exploiting poor security features on web servers and on websites that operate as cryptocurrency exchanges.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Feb 6, 2021 10:56:48 GMT
Good morning, good morning!
Crystal
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Post by ZETAR on Feb 6, 2021 23:44:31 GMT
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Post by ZETAR on Feb 7, 2021 1:38:46 GMT
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Post by ZETAR on Feb 8, 2021 1:34:33 GMT
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Post by moksha on Feb 8, 2021 12:53:27 GMT
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Post by swamprat on Feb 8, 2021 15:37:49 GMT
"Neutor your pet", they said.
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Post by ZETAR on Feb 8, 2021 23:13:48 GMT
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Post by moksha on Feb 9, 2021 12:16:39 GMT
THE REPORT
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Post by swamprat on Feb 10, 2021 20:04:31 GMT
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Post by ZETAR on Feb 10, 2021 20:13:26 GMT
NICE FIND!
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Post by ZETAR on Feb 10, 2021 20:58:25 GMT
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