If you're investing in crypto currencies for the last six months, your portfolio might be in double, triple or maybe flat. Last June 15, 2017 the value of Bitcoin (BTC) is only $2385 per token and I thought it is too expensive to invest. The Ethereum (ETH) is at $328.22, Ripple (XRP) for $0.258851, NEM for $0.186179, Ethereum Classic (ETC) for $17.30, Litecoin (LTC) for $28.58, Dash for $155.37, IOTA $4.1e-07, BitShares for $0.302266, and Stratis (STRAT) for $7.41.

They are the Top 10 Cryptos at that time. See the chart below to see the rest of Top 20 crypto currencies.Fast forward December 1, 2017, we have a new Top 10 crypto currencies. The value of Bitcoin is $10,648.40 last time I checked, it also reached the $11K per token. Many became millionaire for year 2017 because of Bitcoin. The Ethereum (ETH) hold the second place for $459.58. The break away Bitcoin Cash (BCH) at 3rd place, $1,434.31 per token bumping down Ripple (XRP) for $0.254984 which is a flat investment so far. Dash move up to 5th place for $792.75. Litecoin (LTC) still at 6th place, but the value increases to $94.69 per token. The Bitcoin Gold (BTG) another version of old Bitcoin in 7th place for $305.02 per token. The IOTA remain at 8th place for $1.39.

The Cardano (ADA) which I never heard before in 9th place for $0.124291 per token. When I write this article the gain for the last 7 days of trading is 340% growth compare that to Bitcoin 29.21% or Dash 40.29%. I have to revisit Cardano and find out why many trusted this crypto currency.

The 10th place belong to Ethereum Classic (ETC) for $30.33 per token. See captured screen shot below courtesy by CoinMarketCap.com for the list of Top 40 Crypto Currencies before ending Y2017.Crypto Currencies Gains/Losses from June 15, 2017 market price (or their initial price) to December 1, 2017 and Bitcoin is not the highest gainer see the table below. I've created this report to see who's performing well among them.

If you haven't read the news about all WPA2 protocol is vulnerable.

CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) has released information on Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) protocol vulnerabilities. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to take control of an affected system. The vulnerabilities are in the WPA2 protocol, not within individual WPA2 implementations, which means that all WPA2 wireless networking may be affected. Source: Vulnerability Note VU#228519

• Programming skills to run against the key reinstallation attacks (Kracks), currently the proof of concept script is not (yet) available to the public.
• The attacker needs to be close to the WAP, know the SSID which is broadcasting by default.
• Clone the wireless network and create a rouge channel.
• Forwarding traffic to the rouge wireless network.
• Initiate the SSLStrip tool to bypass SSL, commonly known as https that you see on a secured website.
• Use Wireshark tool or other network snipping tool to capture wireless network traffic. This will see all the data in plain text e.g. username and password.
• And do whatever they want on a stolen user credentials.

My expectation for Equifax and other credit reporting bureaus is high to protect our personal information e.g. Names, Social Security Number, Birthdates, Addresses, and in some cases Drivers License. These information are very important and needed to open a credit card account, get a car loan, and obtain a mortgage. Guess what, those information are stolen about 143 Million Americans, almost half of US Population. This was discovered between mid May to July 29, but only announced last Thursday September 7, 2017.

This was acknowledged and announced by Rick Smith, Chairman and CEO of Equifax posted a video at their website https://www.equifaxsecurity2017.com.

How to check if your personal information is potentially impacted. If you're using a credit card, have a car loan or a mortgage most likely you're one of the 143 million Americans.

Visit their official Cybersecurity Incident consumer information website: https://www.equifaxsecurity2017.com.

Click on "CHECK POTENTIAL IMPACT" link. You will enter your last name and last 6 digits of Social Security Number. And you will see something like this if you're one of the 143 million users. Before you click Enroll, you may want to read Krebs on Security related to Equifax website woes. After reading that post, will you still use their free service to sign up for complimentary identity theft protection and credit file monitoring? In my humble opinion, Equifax service should be free forever because of exposing and not protecting our personal identifiable information.

Continue reading at source: QUE.com - https://que.com/equifax-data-breach-howto-check-if-your-information-is-compromised/

New to Bitcoin? You're lucky day, here's an infographic to easy learn about the History of Bitcoin.Infographic by Fried.com

In addition. On July 20, 2017, the bitcoin miners voted, 97% in favor, on the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) 91. The proposal, by Bitmain Warranty engineer James Hilliard, was to activate Segregated Witness (SegWit). Some members of the bitcoin community felt that adopting BIP 91 without increasing the block-size limit would simply delay confronting the issue and that it favored people who wanted to treat bitcoin as a digital investment rather than as a transactional currency. They announced implementation of Bitcoin Cash as a hard fork for August 1. It inherited the transaction history of the bitcoin currency on that date, but all later transactions were separate. Block 478558 was the last common block and thus the first Bitcoin Cash block was 478559. Bitcoin Cash wallet started to reject BTC block and BTC transactions since 13:20 UTC, Aug 1st 2017 because it used a timer to initiate a fork. It implements a block size increase to 8 MB. Bitcoin Cash started futures trading at 0.5 BTC on July 23, but dropped to 0.1 BTC by July 30. Market cap appeared since 23:15 UTC, August 1, 2017. On August 9th, it was 30% more profitable to mine on the original chain.[9] Even though the fork allows for a higher block size, block generation was so sporadic that the original chain was 920 MB bigger than the chain of the fork, as of August 9th. Source: WikiPedia.org

Source: https://que.com/history-of-bitcoin-infographic/