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Ledger wants to help MicroStrategy secure its $400m Bitcoin treasury

Square’s SubZero cold wallet is great, but Ledger Vault is better says the company’s VP of Product. Ledger is mostly known for its consumer-facing hardware wallets, but since last year, a number of enterprises have also begun to use Ledger Vault, according to the company’s vice president of product, Jean-Michel Pailhon. This product is focused on…
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Ledger wallet company passes official security audit

The process was meant to ensure that customer information is handled properly by the company. Ledger, a crypto company providing a number of hardware wallet solutions, has obtained a successful System and Organization Controls, or SOC, Type 1 test.   Friedman LLP, a New York-based accounting firm, ran the SOC 2 Type 1 test on Ledger,…
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It’s been 4 months & KeepKey’s hardware is still vulnerable to remote ransom attacks

They are apparently working on other things that are of a higher priority. A Shift Crypto employee successfully deployed a ransom attack on Trezor and KeepKey hardware wallets last May. While Trezor released a fix on September 2, KeepKey has yet to fix the issue. According to a blog post published on September 2, the…
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Ledger CTO discusses wallet’s safety after multiple security setbacks

What’s behind Ledger’s tough stint recently? Charles Guillemet, the company’s CTO, responds to all the questions and criticism. Ledger, one of the crypto industry’s most popular hardware wallet providers, has faced multiple difficulties in recent weeks, including a breach in the company’s customer contact database and a wallet vulnerability putting users’ Bitcoin (BTC) at risk.…
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Offline Staking, Explained

Defining the concept of offline staking, what benefits and risk it poses, and how it could transform the user experience. Are there any examples of projects offering offline staking? Unfortunately, it’s still the case that most staking, whether directly under a pure proof-of-stake model or indirectly using a delegated proof-of-stake consensus, is online. This usually…
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A Deep-Dive Into Some of the ZERO Wallet’s Advanced Security Features

Cointelegraph gets techy with CEO Ruben Merre, on some of the NGRAVE wallet’s security advances. From its initial announcement back in April to the $430,000 raised in the recently completed crowd-sale, the NGRAVE ZERO has created huge buzz in the crypto community. Billed as the most secure hardware wallet available, the permanently air-gapped ZERO is…
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Contactless NFC Hardware Wallet Authorizes Crypto Transactions With a Tap

A new cryptocurrency hardware wallet stores private keys securely and fully isolated, while NFC technology enables authorization of transactions through a mobile device. Keycard is a new credit-card sized hardware wallet featuring near-field communication (NFC) to authorize cryptocurrency transactions. At launch, it features integration with combined private messenger/wallet/DeFi browser, Status App, although further integrations are…
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Ledger Users Can Now Connect Their Wallets to DeversiFi DEX

The hardware wallet company has stepped into the world of decentralized finance (DeFi). Ledger, a producer of cryptocurrency hardware wallets, announced today that its users can now connect their devices to the DeversiFi decentralized exchange, or DEX. Hardware wallets + DeFi As a result of this integration, Ledger has become one of the first hardware…
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Hacker Sells Tens of Thousands of Ledger, Tezor, and Keepkey Users’ Info

The customer databases of Trezor, Ledger, and Keepkay have allegedly been listed for sale by the perpetrating hacker. The hacker that breached the Ethereum.org forum is allegedly selling the databases for the three most-popular crypto hard wallets — Ledger, Trezor, and KeepKey. The three databases contain the name, address, phone number, and email for more…
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Ngrave Releases More Details of ‘World’s Most Secure Hardware Wallet’

With less than a week until its launch, Ngrave has unveiled more details of its EAL7-certified hardware wallet, the Zero. Digital asset security firm Ngrave has released more details of its fully offline hardware wallet, the Zero. As previously reported, the Zero claims to be the first hardware wallet to receive EAL7 certification — one…
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