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LifeLock Sues Xapo Executives Over Bitcoin Wallet Intellectual Property

Bitcoin bank and payment processor Xapo faces uncertain waters as much of the company’s executive team is being sued for contract violations. The misgivings center on the last months that Xapo co-founder and CEO Wences Casares, along with other Xapo employees, worked for the mobile wallet Lemon. In December 2013, the $1.5 billion online security company LifeLock acquired the mobile wallet for $42.5 million (and rebranded it LifeLock Wallet). As reported by Fortune, the lawsuit is over whether Xapo was originally developed during his and other Xapo employees’ time working for Lemon. Or as LifeLock’s compliant puts it, “using a product developed by Lemon employees, in Lemon’s facilities, on Lemon’s computers, and on Lemon’s dime.” Several months before Lemon would be acquired by LifeLock, the mobile wallet startup started working on a Bitcoin product, but the project was quickly terminated by its board of directors. Casares, Lemon CEO at the time, pushed on with the digital currency...

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Crypto flaws in Blockchain Android app sent bitcoins to the wrong address

comedy of programming errors could prove catastrophic for affected users. Blockchain, one of the Internet's most widely used Bitcoin wallets, has rushed out an update for its Android app after discovering critical cryptographic and programming flaws that can cause users to send digital coins to the wrong people with no warning. The vulnerabilities affect a subset of people who run Blockchain for Android on versions 4.1 or older of the mobile OS, according to an advisory published Thursday. The most serious of the flaws is the use of the unencrypted HTTP connections when the app's cryptographic engine contacts random.org to obtain random numbers used to generate private keys for Bitcoin addresses. Since January, random.org has required the use of the more secure HTTPS protocol and has returned a 301 Moved Permanently response when accessed through HTTP. As a result, vulnerable installations of Blockchain for Android generated the private key corresponding to the ad...