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In this episode I speak with the delighful Arif Mizra who went from being a pizza delivery guy to a multimillionaire mogul and one of the first residents of the Burj Khalifa - the tallest building in the world, in Dubai! Arif's a humble soul and a man of many talents, with an extraordinary skill in business, philanthropy, investment. We dive deep on money, health & fitness and the power of spiritual values. Some interesting facts: As the largest limited partner in RealVentures.com and an early investor in companies like ReadyEducation.com and MetaCert.com, he has demonstrated an uncanny ability to spot and develop winning strategies for launching successful ventures. Arif is also a passionate humanitarian, with a strong commitment to making a positive impact on the world. His success stories have been featured on numerous international media outlets, including BBC, CNBC, and the New York Times. If you're looking for inspiration and insights from a true visionary, look no further than Arif Mirza. Here is Arif's website: ArifMirza.com Hello there podcast listeners... If you enjoyed this episode please consider giving the podcast a 5 star review! It really does help to show it to more people. One question: Is anything else that you would like to know or see about these themes that you feel could be helpful for you? Please feel free to both COMMENT your thoughts (I read & reply to all of them), and share it to your network. And, of course, do SUBSCRIBE to ensure you get notified about the latest episodes when they come out. Would you like to deepen your connection to Source, in a way that's natural to you? Hi there, Jody Deane, Transformational Mentor & Spiritual Life Coach here! I help people like yourself with deepening their connection to Source and navigating their spiritual awakening journey. ⚡️Do You Want To Get Clarity, Activate Your Vision & Release Your Limits? Accelerate Your Joy - Book a 20-min call that will empower you with clarity around any challenges you currently face, elevate your big vision and bring you towards a more holistic understanding of reality

CoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen is joined by attorney Preston Byrne, a partner at the Washington, D.C. office of Anderson Kill, to talk about fraud and constitutional rights. This episode is sponsored by ErisX, The Stellar Development Foundation and Grayscale Digital Large Cap Investment Fund.“There is really very little difference, at least in the point of origin...whether something is a scam,” Byrne said, regarding inaccurate blogs and representations of software projects. “Take Ethereum, for example. Ethereum had all manner of promises that were made...the statements coming from the Ethereum Foundation were somewhat more measured.” Regardless of whether any particular project is an attempt at fraud, it’s likely that online money schemes of every variety will become more common during this coronavirus crisis. According to Thomas Papageorge, head of the Consumer Protection Unit at the San Diego District Attorney’s office, there’s a “clear pattern” of more white-collar crimes since the recession began. “The rate of incidents, the amount of fraud, does increase dramatically during an emergency situation like this,” Papageorge said. “I’ve heard about new types of scams that involve cryptocurrency … investment scams and bogus advice about protecting your savings or bitcoin.”Bitcoin evangelist Andreas Antonopoulos tweeted that fraudsters were impersonating him to offer unemployed people fake jobs, identity thieves looking for personal information. Likewise, CoinDesk impersonators are also targeting people across the sector. According to Carnegie Mellon University economics professor Sevin Yeltekin, the financial stressors people are experiencing today make them “more vulnerable to those scams.” However, there is a silver lining, she said, because businesses that survive the current recession will do so because they reimagined how they operate, including “risk management.”Even tech-savvy people like Lisa Gus, startup investment lead at the Government Blockchain Association and co-founder of the startup WishKnish, can be vulnerable to fraudsters in such stressful times. Gus said she spent several weeks being led on by a scammer impersonating a Binance employee, before her startup’s security solution MetaCert identified a phishing domain behind the fraudster’s email account, support@communitybinance.org. “About LinkedIn, I’m not the only one being inundated with fake [investment] offers...the amount of propositions I’ve been getting (is up),” Gus said. “Especially for larger companies, it’s impossible to track profiles that are associated with them.”With regards to this instance, a LinkedIn spokesperson recommended members “take precautions” in these trying times and “report any messages or postings they believe are scams to us so we can investigate."Larger companies often charge early stage blockchain projects for working together, whether it’s cited as marketing costs or listing fees. In Gus’s case, the fraudster had due diligence paperwork and non-disclosure contracts, which made the scammer’s request for a bitcoin deposit less suspicious. As for retail users, ShapeShift CEO Erik Voorhees has “definitely seen more phishing attempts” since early March. Likewise, a Binance spokesperson said so far in 2020 the company saw an average of 180 scam reports per month, which dwarf the unreported instances. So the exchange offers a public verification tool to check whether websites, phone numbers, emails, Telegram and WeChat handles are actually affiliated with Binance. That’s why the blockchain explorer Etherscan launched the “EthProtect” program in April, to tag wallet addresses reportedly used for fraud. Etherscan CEO Matthew Tan said the company uses internal “circuit breakers” to minimize false positives and aims to provide users with “actionable data” to make “informed choices” about who they transact with. As for the attorney Byrne, he said in some cases cryptocurrency projects may run afoul of consumer protection issues, even if they are not considered unregistered securities or frauds. “There’s a range of representations of things, what you can say about things, that aren’t necessarily true but aren’t fraudulent,” he said. The fact is, cryptocurrency now exists. People will use it unethically, the same way they do with all other forms of money. But there are lawful and constructive ways to use the technology as well. “You can operate a bitcoin business in a regulatory compliant fashion,” Byrne said. “However, it requires a lot of work and advice and design to do that correctly.” Want more? Read my article about how the University of New Hampshire Law School is capitalizing on demand for blockchain expertise in the legal industry.

After the World Wide Web 1.0 was founded by Tim Berners Lee, it was upgraded to 2.0 by Paul Walsh and others! In this exclusive interview we'll dive into his back story and also discuss his current endeavor: protecting the cyber world from coronavirus scammers with the COVID-19 Cyber Threat Coalition!

Sign up for our newsletter at https://Evolvement.io. Evolvement is a podcast hosted by Nye that revolves around Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, blockchain technology, and how these play a role in the current financial models and economic systems of the world. In this episode, I sat down with Paul Walsh from Metacert to talk about crypto phishing scams and how users can best avoid them. Opening links from suspicious, and even trusted sources can involve malware that hijacks your hard-earned cryptos and even lock down your computer. We cover some simple steps that will keep you safer online and discuss how Metacert is building a service to stop scams before they ever reach your browser. Learn more at https://metacert.com/ Thank you to Paul for his time. Thank you to our sponsors CasperLabs! And thank you to all our listeners! You guys help make this possible. Timestamps 00:02:00 How did you get into Crypto? 00:09:10 What is Ransomware? 00:010:00 Retail phishing scam is the biggest risk to investors? 00:21:30 Best practices for Twitter, Telegram. What else should people be looking for?

Featuring Kristy-Leigh Minehan of Core Scientific, Darren Marble of Issuance, Eric Lynch of Osensei, and Paul Walsh of Metacert. This episode is a live recording from TF3, our most recent TF Blockchain Conference on March 28, 2019, where we hosted multiple lightning talks. Lightning talk topics included Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain (Kristy-Leigh Minehan), Security Tokens: Fact or Fiction (Darren Marble), Decisioning Engine on the Blockchain (Eric Lynch), Lessons from Protecting over 1 Million People in Crypto from Fraud (Paul Walsh). Our TF attendees loved the lightning talks at TF3 and I hope you feel the same way when you listen in.

Sam Sethi talked with Paul Walsh about how MetaCert is building a query and response web protocol on the Blockchain that enables a 'Decentralized Trust and Reputation Protocol' for the Internet. e.g imagine being able to look up the record for every domain and see who has owned it and what it was used for overtime.Think of this as a distributed and trusted newer version of WhoIs Domain Lookup but with more detailed information, that is validated by the community who are paid in 'Tokens' to ensure its validity and maintained over time.Then in the future, the information stored on the MetaCert Protocol can be used by developers using an API to build products or services to address issues such as phishing, malware, brand protection, child safety, and fake news credibility.

Featuring Anthony Pompliano of Morgan Creek Digital Assets, Joe Roets of Dragonchain, and Paul Walsh of Metacert This episode is a compilation of backstage interviews from our 3rd, TF Blockchain Conference, which took place on March 28, 2019 in Seattle. We have divided our backstage interviews over two podcast. In part one you’ll hear interviews with Anthony Pompliano of Morgan Creek Digital and Off The Chain Podcast, Joe Roets of Dragonchain, and Paul Walsh of Metacert.

Phishing just won't go away. Nearly three-quarters of organizations polled by security company Proofpoint saw phishing attacks last year. Sometimes attackers are able to fool even security-savvy users. A company called MetaCert is trying to fight phishing emails with an extraordinarily simple method. The company has spent seven years compiling a database of web addresses known to be used by phishers, and the company and its users are constantly reporting more.

On this LAB Radio, episode Aaron Mangal and Chris Groshong talk security, the Internet and origin story of how MetaCert helps protect users from malicious links with CEO and founder, Paul Walsh. Paul Walsh, CEO and founder of MetaCert and co-founder of W3C Mobile Web Initiative Paul is an early web pioneer in security and safety for users having helped create projects like the W3C Mobile Web Initiative who's mission includes "ensuring that the Web be available on as many kind of devices as possible". He also helped create standards and classifications for Uniform Resource Locations (URLs) as a part of his work at the W3C organization. "I'm CEO of MetaCert. In 2017 we completely eradicated phishing on Slack for the crypto world. In 2018 we pretty much brought a stop to phishing for the crypto world on Telegram. 2019 is going to be our most important year - our mission is to eradicate phishing for everyone who uses our new email security solution for native mobile email. Previously... I was part of the team that helped to launch technologies such as AIM, Internet Radio, Online Games and X2 56K Modem Protocol while working at AOL during the 90's. I co-instigated the creation of the W3C Standard for URL Classification/Content Labeling and I'm one of the seven original Founders of the W3C Mobile Web Initiative. I also own a full patent for Malware and Phishing detection and prevention inside a mobile app WebView with more pending. I own an Indian restaurant in Ireland - Michelin Star for 10+ years. [I am a] Irish. Father. Wine Drinker. Advanced Open Water Diver, Snowboarder, Skydiver Wannabe and Seasoned Traveller." -Paul Walsh This new broad access of the web we are seeing today has brought new challenges such as malicious individuals who seek to steal peoples data and even worse Cryptocurrency and the value within. The MetaCert team began by providing authenticity and monitoring of social media channels like Telegram and Slack which has a wave of malicious bot attacks on users, encouraging them to click on compromised links and put their sensitive data into fake websites which ultimately leads to theft. MetaCert aims to protect businesses from malicious threats and unsafe URLs inside Messaging Apps MetaCert has a patented enterprise-grade security API which can lookup over 2,000 shortening services and check it against a massive database of 10 billion classified URLs across 65 categories in a fraction of a second. MetaCert boasts the biggest threat intelligence system on the planet. The second to them is OpenDNS (run by Cisco) which has classified 2 million domains across 60 categories. One of the reasons for building its own threat intelligence system was to prevent false positives (which is a problem with current solutions on the market automatically blocking too many innocent sites). MetaCert recently released a beta of their email security solution which helps verify the safety of links: After listening to this episode you will learn: How Paul was an early semantic web pioneer in the 90s and created the W3C Mobile Web Initiative Why Paul felt websites and search engines should show more metadata and have an identity certificate What a Universal Resource Identifier (URI) is and why they are important How Webview works and was a vulnerability in our mobile use of the Web Why they got a patent in place for security around Webview to protect themselves from tech giants like Google Why the first iteration of MetaCert was for child safety and built a database for pornographic content How MetaCert saw the opportunity to organize and classify URIs and created the biggest Cyber Threat Intelligence Database to date How the MetaCert API works How MetaCert leverages a reward system for compensating people (Validators) for helping identify and log links Why the MetaCert "Green Shield" icon has become a pillar in their branding and marketing to the public Paul's vision for decentralizing governance around content, link filtering and working group/committee creation A fake news identifying browser add-on called TrustedNews which is 100% powered by MetaCert About how Paul is considering moving away from Ethereum (first time mentioned in public) For show notes and more visit: LAB Radio Episode 49

Soutenez Tech Café sur Patreon Tous les liens sur techcafe.fr Discutez avec nous sur Telegram Des Hauts et Débats Project Debater : IBM lance un super chatbot qui peut débattre avec vous. Même s’il semble avoir du mal à rentabiliser Watson… Adobe crée une IA qui détecte les photos truquées par Photoshop. Un comble ? Pêche au gros : des algorithmes apprennent à tromper les outils anti phishing. Alexa se met au room service. Une grosse pétition pour empêcher Amazon de vendre Rekognition. Walobby bi bi, j’en suis baba : Jeff Bezos retourne le conseil municipal de Seattle. Tesla dégraisse, sur fond de scandale, d'espionnage et de sabotage. Lobbyaisé : la loi européenne sur le copyright est presque votée. Après les pubs, Eyeo veut lutter contre les fake news avec la blockchain de MetaCert. Ad astra per aspera : Brave va tester son modèle publicitaire à base de tokens. Fox veut transformer les pubs en romans feuilletons. Bientôt un AdFLix. Inside Intel Too much love will kill you : le CEO d’Intel poussé vers la sortie. TLBleed et LazyFP, encore des failles matérielle pour les CPU Intels. Scoop : vous avez un Pentium III et Windows 7 ? Il est temps de changer… Des chercheurs Microsoft portent Linux sur un processeur maison. C’est les soldes : MIPS racheté par Wave Computing. Les Hololens 2 coûteront moins cher et seront basées sur le Qualcomm XR1. Qualcomm planche sur un CPU exclusivement pour les PC. NVIDIA aurait trop de pascal : “La passion ne peut pas être sans excès.” Tout est mini dans notre vie : le record du plus petit ordinateur encore battu. En bref Plus de pubs pour les armes aux mineurs sur Facebook. C’est jamais trop tard… Des groupes payants sur Facebook Pokemon Go autorisera bientôt les échanges. C’est jamais trop tard. En fait... si. Finalement non, pas de VR pour la Xbox One. Le Magic Leap apparaît Valve et son contrôleur qui reconnaît les poignées de mains. Pour election simulator ? John Carmack envoie de la 5K dans l'Oculus Go. Respect. Un exemple d’AR pour le web pour Chrome et un cours en ligne si ça vous titille… Bonus Guillaume Poggiaspalla : Le Speedrun caritatif avec Summer Games Done Quick. Pierre-Olivier : les pubs FB politiques Guillaume : La centième ! Participants : Guillaume Poggiaspalla Pierre-Olivier Dybman Présenté par Guillaume Vendé

In today's Investing After Hours, we talk to Paul Walsh, the founder and creator of the MetaCert protocol. MetaCert provides digital currency traders with security tools to keep them safe from phishing scams…

*** this is not financial or legal advice*** CRYPTO 101 Media was a media sponsor for the Ethereal Summit in NYC and we want to take the next few episodes to share some of the content we gathered. In this episode Aaron Paul of ICO 101 chats with Token Foundry, MetaCert, Foam, and Colendi. Enjoy!! Show Links: CRYPTO101podcast.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/user?u=8429526 Twitter: twitter.com/Crypto101Pod twitter.com/BrycePaul101 twitter.com/PizzaMind www.instagram.com/crypto_101 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/101Crypto/ https://www.facebook.com/CRYPTO101Podcast/ **THIS IS NOT FINANCIAL OR LEGAL ADVICE** © Copyright 2019 Boardwalk Flock, LLC All Rights Reserved Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2Wxc5VPtPc Waves by MBB https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/-2Wxc5VPtPc • Contact the artist: mbbofficialmusic@gmail.com https://open.spotify.com/artist/3Yk2l... https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEWA... https://www.instagram.com/mbb_music/ https://twitter.com/mbbmusic • F.A.Q: How to use music https://goo.gl/zNKFGu • Main Playlists: Artists: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCht8... Genres: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCht8... Moods: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCht8...Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

*** this is not financial or legal advice*** CRYPTO 101 Media was a media sponsor for the Ethereal Summit in NYC and we want to take the next few episodes to share some of the content we gathered. In this episode Aaron Paul of ICO 101 chats with Token Foundry, MetaCert, Foam, and Colendi. Enjoy!! Show Links: CRYPTO101podcast.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/user?u=8429526 Twitter: twitter.com/Crypto101Pod twitter.com/BrycePaul101 twitter.com/PizzaMind www.instagram.com/crypto_101 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/101Crypto/ https://www.facebook.com/CRYPTO101Podcast/ **THIS IS NOT FINANCIAL OR LEGAL ADVICE** © Copyright 2019 Boardwalk Flock, LLC All Rights Reserved Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2Wxc5VPtPc Waves by MBB https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/-2Wxc5VPtPc • Contact the artist: mbbofficialmusic@gmail.com https://open.spotify.com/artist/3Yk2l... https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEWA... https://www.instagram.com/mbb_music/ https://twitter.com/mbbmusic • F.A.Q: How to use music https://goo.gl/zNKFGu • Main Playlists: Artists: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCht8... Genres: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCht8... Moods: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCht8...

Paul Walsh had long ago predicted that internet scams would migrate from email to private messaging platforms, but it wasn't until crypto mania took off that his thesis was proved right -- in a big way. In the summer of 2017, the founder and CEO of MetaCert discovered many crypto Slack channels were being overrun by scammers capitalizing on FOMO to get people to inadvertently give them their ether and other tokens. Now, the company has several products to help prevent crypto enthusiasts from being scammed and it also decentralizing its work so the whole world can help classify bad links and proven others from being scammed. In this talk, he describes how the scams work, how Metacert tries to keep people from falling victim, and how best you can protect your own crypto. MetaCert the company: https://metacert.com MetaCert the protocol: http://metacertprotocol.com/  Story on phone hijackings: https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2016/12/20/hackers-have-stolen-millions-of-dollars-in-bitcoin-using-only-phone-numbers/#7125f2f738ba Link to episode where Mike Belshe and I discuss physical crimes against crypto people: http://unchainedpodcast.co/mike-belshe-on-what-bitgos-kingdom-trust-acquisition-means-for-crypto-and-how-security-will-develop-in-the-future Thank you to our sponsors! Bitwise: https://www.bitwiseinvestments.com/unchained Keepkey: https://www.keepkey.com Preciate: https://preciate.org, which is taking suggestions for new people to appreciate at https://preciate.org/recognize

Paul Walsh had long ago predicted that internet scams would migrate from email to private messaging platforms, but it wasn't until crypto mania took off that his thesis was proved right -- in a big way. In the summer of 2017, the founder and CEO of MetaCert discovered many crypto Slack channels were being overrun by scammers capitalizing on FOMO to get people to inadvertently give them their ether and other tokens. Now, the company has several products to help prevent crypto enthusiasts from being scammed and it also decentralizing its work so the whole world can help classify bad links and proven others from being scammed. In this talk, he describes how the scams work, how Metacert tries to keep people from falling victim, and how best you can protect your own crypto. MetaCert the company: https://metacert.com MetaCert the protocol: http://metacertprotocol.com/  Story on phone hijackings: https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2016/12/20/hackers-have-stolen-millions-of-dollars-in-bitcoin-using-only-phone-numbers/#7125f2f738ba Link to episode where Mike Belshe and I discuss physical crimes against crypto people: http://unchainedpodcast.co/mike-belshe-on-what-bitgos-kingdom-trust-acquisition-means-for-crypto-and-how-security-will-develop-in-the-future Thank you to our sponsors! Bitwise: https://www.bitwiseinvestments.com/unchained Keepkey: https://www.keepkey.com Preciate: https://preciate.org, which is taking suggestions for new people to appreciate at https://preciate.org/recognize

Welcome to Ledger Cast, hosted by me, Brian Krogsgard (@ledgerstatus on twitter), and in this episode I'm joined by a special co-host, Derek Waltchack. Ledger Cast is a cryptocurrency trading and blockchain ecosystem podcast. You can subscribe to new episodes of Ledger Cast on iTunes, on Google Play, on Stitcher, on YouTube and via RSS. The information in this podcast should not be construed as investment advice, it is purely educational material and you should always do your own research before buying. In this episode of Ledger Cast, Derek and I interview Paul Walsh, the CEO of MetaCert, and the head of the MetaCert Protocol. MetaCert is creating the MetaCert Protocol to bring their online trust and reputation platform to the blockchain. They see many benefits for taking centralized information and decentralizing it, and they are creating the MetaCert Protocol to address that. In this conversation, we discuss the use case for establishing trust for online links, the products MetaCert currently offers, and the benefits of the MetaCert Protocol. Here's the YouTube version: https://youtu.be/s-ROfQVfWo8 MetaCert offers several products right now on their centralized platform. They have a browser extension that adds reputation scores to website URLs. They also have additions for messaging apps like Slack and Telegram to help organizations prevent scammy URLs from infiltrating their communities. They see the next big battleground for online security as taking place in large part within chat apps; the crypto community is certainly familiar with that threat. The blockchain allows us to shift our centralized database to a decentralized registry. The Protocol features built-in game mechanics, rewarding participants with Tokens for submitting and validating the categorization of URIs. This incentivized system is the heart of the Protocol. In addition to rewarding participants, the Token will help mitigate the risk of bad actors trying to spoil the quality of the registry. MetaCert's network can be integrated at most layers of the system: hardware (like your network router), software like a messaging app, or the end user via a browser extension. They currently collect and license their reputation scores to other centralized entities, and they see value in creating a broadly used decentralized reputation blockchain. We discuss with Paul some of the potential issues we see with MetaCert as a distributed protocol, and other questions someone would have for a centralized company creating a decentralized protocol. And at the end of the interview, we wrap up with our own thoughts on MetaCert. MetaCert has been around since 2011 and Paul is an experienced entrepreneur, with a long history working on the web and in the security realm. We were both impressed with what they are doing and what they're building. MetaCert ICO The MetaCert ICO details aren't out yet, but most of the information is near ready and pending the completion of legal review. They are seeking to raise $40 million, including in a private sale. They have thus far received a lot of interest. There's no discount or bonus for the private sale, but it allows some investors to have a larger allocation of tokens for the protocol. Paul said that 75% of the team tokens are going to be locked up and vested over a three year period; he notes he's skeptical of some of the short lockup periods of other ICOs. Users of Cryptonite will receive tokens as users. Once the network launches, users can pay to use the extension with tokens, but also can earn tokens by participating in the network by reporting websites and establishing online reputations for websites. The MetaCert Protocol will operate on the Ethereum blockchain. Links discussed in the show MetaCert's main website MetaCert Protocol website Cryptonite browser extension Phishtank shared database for phishing Their Telegram security bot ConsenSys is partnering with them for some of their blockchain elements They are going to partner with Rocket Chat to implement their token Ocean Protocol to create a decentralized database Ledger Status links and information Ledger Status Learn is launching really soon, which will offer educational material, community, and more My free Telegram channel where I distribute charts and analysis that's a little more in depth than Twitter Follow @ledgerstatus on Twitter Learn about Derek Derek Waltchack is a partner at Shannon Waltchack -- a full service commercial real estate and property management firm in Birmingham, Alabama. Derek is interested in all things cryptocurrency and blockchain. He's been investing actively since early 2017. Check out our introductory interview to learn more, and be sure to follow @dwaltchack on Twitter. Interested in sponsoring? We'd love to talk to interested parties about sponsorship opportunities. We are open to suggestions, but are not seeking deals that include promos for ICOs, etc. But if you do something interesting in the space and want to chat, contact us. Music: "Oh, the chains" by Joel Madison Blount

We have brought back one of our favourite guests for this episode. Hit play and listen to Paul Walsh from MetaCert, who talks about how important it is to stay safe in the crypto communities on various platforms and how you can take measures to prevent attacks! ABOUT THE GUEST On today’s episode, we have one of our previous guests, Paul walsh who’s been ensuring safety whilst clicking on links. Paul is the founder of MetaCert, a security company that protects the crypto community from phishing attacks on mainstream messaging applications. He co-instigated the creation of the W3C Standard for URL Classification/Content Labelling and is one of the seven original Founders of the W3C Mobile Web Initiative. He owns a full patent for the checking of URIs for Malware and Phishing inside mobile apps. WHAT’S NEW? (2.36) We have been in the cryptocurrency world for 4 weeks now and we've already hit a 100 million messages inside slack alone. This shows how big our utility is. The number of people who received an alert is 58 k who are members of the community. And the total number of alerts should be more than that according to me. But these are the people who have MetaCert. The only other security app relying on other companies like MetaCert to secure slack hit 16 million but we have 1.2 billion messages on the whole with 1 million in the crypto world HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SAVED FROM MALICIOUS LINKS? (6:11) We're monitoring all that and logging it all. We plan to build a global central threat intelligence system. When we are monitoring communities, we see attacks happening over multiple communities with the same person being the culprit sometimes. We have come up with a way to stop attacks as soon as they are on slack API or chat bots. As soon as they happen, we catch the culprit who'll be immediately blocked. That website will be labelled. So that other people will know. The person will be banned. This will thus be based on behaviour of phishers. SHOULDN'T THIS BE ON SLACK OR ANY OTHER SIMILAR PLATFORM ORGANICALLY? THAN JUST COMMUNITIES? (11:14) We had a talk with slack and they are not interested in working with us. They wanted to use Google safe browsing API. In my opinion that's a bad decision because I have a full patent and MetaCert already has the world's biggest advance threat intelligence system which would react much more quickly to phishing attacks. We're able to classify attacks in a way Google can't. Maybe they'll realise our advantage in the future. Slack is designed for communities where by you verify the integrity of the person who joined. It wasn't designed to cope with communities where you would have people joining it without knowing if they can be trusted. Most companies with a huge number of employees are concerned a lot about internal hacks compared to external hacks. Humans are the weakest links not the software. What I articulated to slack was that they need to be mindful about communities because they comprise of thousands of powerful people are working in big companies who're probably going to never use slack in case there's a problem with security. This would be a huge customer loss for slack. And Instead of saying we don't support communities they need to take actions to protect them. WHAT ABOUT TELEGRAM? YOU SAID THAT YOU WEREN'T ON IT THE LAST TIME WE SPOKE (13:31) We’re currently doubling down on slack which is a bigger challenge for the vast majority of people in crypto. Thus, we're not working on telegram now. We're working on browser add-ons which will protect you in a similar way our slack app does. We will put telegram on the roadmap. Nothing until 3-4 months. Which we realise is a long-term in the crypto world. ARE YOU LOOKING AT OTHER THREATS OR JUST PHISHING? (15:16) We’re looking at Wallet address. When you open a website, which is verified you are able to see the URL in green. We want to do something similar with wallet addresses I have spoken to certificate authorities to make crypto wallets have cheaper extended valid certificates to prevent phishing attacks. HOW DO WE SPEED THIS UP AND HELP MORE PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THIS? (16:50) Every crypto company with slack needs to have MetaCert. Educate people about checking URLs. I'm working on two manuals, one for companies and one for investors. People working in crypto companies need to be mindful about their own security by making sure they're shredding documents and changing passwords every couple of months. Use two factor authentications. Use Google authenticator. Things like that help educate people. I'VE BEEN ASKED IF METACERT SHOULD DECENTRALISE ITS DATABASE AND WHY PEOPLE SHOULD TRUST METACERT. (18.53) We started research on whether it was feasible to decentralize our database so that we reduce the risk of MetaCert becoming the single point of failure. We’re able to cope with brute force attacks. Decentralizing our database is new to us. We’re looking closely at doing it. We’re always looking to address the problems faced by the crypto world. ANYTHING ELSE YOU WOULD LIKE TO SHARE THAT WILL HELP OUR LISTENERS? (22:00) It would be rude for me not to bring up Equifax. Unfortunately, it’s easier to attack than to defend. To have a third of all people to have their social security number exposed and compromised is very scary. To have Equifax be the central point of failure is very scary. It’s ridiculous how easy it is to steal your identity in the US. If this was decentralized where we didn’t have one point of breach, that would be good. In the crypto world, everybody needs to wake up now. Everybody in this world has a target on their back. Not just individuals, companies, ICOs, have a target on their back. We’re going to see easy compromises. We’re going to need to stop and think. Use different passwords for different websites. Use two factor authentications. Look at all your social media accounts. Educate people in your company. Constantly remind them about the importance of being proactive. People are going to look for information from your trash bins. If you can go into somebody’s crypto world, you empty it. Cyber criminals are going to get much more sophisticated. My strategy is to try and strike up partnerships with companies that work with token launches and ICOs. The more information we put out through podcasts like this, for the community, the better. The developer community excites me. It takes a lot to gain their trust. When they see that you care, when they believe in you and see that you’re trying to solve a problem, they tend to help you back. That’s what excites me. Another observation is when I see banks telling people to click a link to open a secure message inside a browser. It just becomes easier to phish people. As for hacks, they hack, they steal and then they upload to the dark web where they sell that information to potentially tens or thousands of people. They make it easy for people to search that data. SO IF BANKS SHOULDN’T SEND YOU LINKS TO CLICK, WHAT SHOULD THEY DO? (33:00) Just send you the email! Asking you to log into your account and not ask you to click links. I spoke to a bank about this. In the crypto world, you will get people saying, don’t be stupid. I’m frustrated by seeing so many people lose money. You’ve always got new people coming into the crypto space. Aside from Coinbase, everything else is a complicated process. It’s going to be difficult to tell people what to do and what not to do if everything’s this complicated. You can’t expect mainstream people to comprehend all that. One of the biggest opportunities is to improve the UX and UI in the space. One of the things that we’re working on is a trust mark for MetaCert. When investors see the trust mark, they know that best practices are being followed.

One of the top concerns, when it comes to Cryptocurrencies, is security. Although the transactions are safe and secure, there are security concerns related to crypto wallets. One of the major threats includes phishing attacks. In this episode, we talk to Paul Walsh, the founder of MetaCert, a company that provides protection against phishing and malware links. Tune in to know more about Phishing and how you can protect yourself against them!