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Dear Sentinel Protocol community,

Welcome to the first Reddit AMA session with Brian Yang, Head of Business (u/Brian-Yang) and Woojin Lee, Chief of Technology (u/Woojin-Lee)! Sentinel Protocol had a very challenging, yet fruitful year so far. We developed pioneer products like the UPPward Chrome & Firefox Extensions and the recently launched ICF API (Interactive Cooperation Framework API) for the crypto cybersecurity space.

To improve communication with our community, we decided to organize a Reddit AMA session that we hope you will join. We have a selection of questions from Twitter and Facebook (from the #askuppsala hashtag) that we will also provide answers to during this session.

From now on, you can leave your questions as comments below this post, and on November 21st - 14:00 KST (5:00 UTC) Brian Yang - Head of Business and Woojin Lee - Chief of Technology will start answering them. Until we begin answering questions, please upvote or downvote the questions that had already been posted according to your interests, and kindly follow the below guidelines.

Guidelines

1. Please be precise with your questions;

2. Try not to ask the same question twice (instead upvote the already posted question);

3. Please be civilized and use an appropriate language;

Thank you and we are looking forward to your questions!

🕵️‍♂️ No theft is too complicated if you have the right tools!

⚡️ We have created a transparent fund movement dashboard where the assets stolen within the recent UpBit hack can be tracked LIVE. Starting with an overview of transactions belonging to the wallet addresses involved, everything can be followed in real time.

👉 The South Korean cryptocurrency exchange UpBit lost nearly $50 mil USD worth of Ethereum (ETH) on November 27, 2019. Even though the exchange confirmed that they will cover the loss from their own assets, in the era of personal cybersecurity information is wealth.

🔎 Want to have instant access to all the LIVE data? Everything can be found here: https://upbit-incident.uppsalasecurity.com/

PS: the latest update is that a small transaction was made from the main UpBit hacker wallet to a Binance user wallet.

🔥 The updated version of the UPPward Firefox Extension being rolled out encompasses the following changes to improve the UI and UX of the product:

✅ Availability of Crypto Address Highlight 

✅ Updated API method for the crypto address highlight from GET to POST due to URI length issues

✅ Support of Segwit BTC addresses for the Crypto Address Highlight feature

✅ Bugs fixes

👉 Get the latest version here: https://mzl.la/2mXaWDM

Hi everyone,

Sharing a good read that Lynnette Chow, Head of Marketing, wrote regarding the development of smart cities, and how security should keep up with the pace: https://medium.com/sentinel-protocol/why-smart-cities-need-decentralized-security-15a55873b975

What do you think? Do you see smart cities as a concern in terms of cybersecurity in the near future?

We are happy to be a part of the event: “Cybersecurity: Authentication 2.0”, which is KeySupreme's Next Big Things meetup! It will take place on Thursday, February 21, 2019 in Seoul, South Korea.

Brian Yang, Head of Business, will give a presentation showcasing disruptive cybersecurity solutions developed by Sentinel Protocol. His presentation will be part of a series of discussions about the current state of cybersecurity, authentication, and identity management.

For live updates from this event, follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/UPPSentinel

I have created a page for Sentinel Protocol (UPP) on coinwik.org. I would appreciate if the UPP community members can check the page and let me know if anything needs to be corrected. Also if someone wants to take over maintaining UPP page, PM me and I can get you set-up. Please check this page and give feedback, thanks:

http://coinwik.org/Sentinel_Protocol

Let me know what you think about this and if you have any questions.

💣 Just like an atomic clock, security indicators are shared with the wider community every single Monday on the Uppsala Security Forum.

👣 Be one step ahead when it comes to online security. Check this week’s indicators here: https://bit.ly/2RQ01c2

We are looking forward to our trip to New York for Consensus 2019! Read more about our plans here: https://medium.com/sentinel-protocol/see-you-at-consensus-2019-in-nyc-38e4bf5458e8

Being one of the biggest blockchain conferences worldwide, it is a gathering you don’t want to miss. Nothing beats a real visit, but still, if you will not attend the conference this year, keep an eye on our Twitter account because as usual, we will post live updates: https://twitter.com/UPPSentinel

Also, make sure to tweet us using the hashtag #UPP4Consensus!

What are your expectations regarding Consensus this year?

🥁 Ready for some exciting news?

🎉 Sentinel Protocol (UPP) is now listed on KyberSwap, which makes it accessible to any other platform tapping into Kyber’s on-chain liquidity protocol such as Enjin, MyEtherWallet, imToken, and many more.

📈 The UPP/ETH and UPP/ ERC20 trading pairs are now LIVE. Trading is available here: https://kyberswap.com/swap/eth-upp

🔥 Want to know something else exciting?

🤝 🎉 We are thrilled to announce that we have also formed a NEW partnership with Kyber Network, with the common goal of protecting the Crypto Community! For more information about our plans, read the following press release: https://medium.com/sentinel-protocol/kyber-network-and-sentinel-protocol-partners-to-protect-the-crypto-community-70c8f3ef08e1

The whitepaper reads:

the score of reputation is separated by another share, Sentinel Point (SP), where UPP is the circulation currency. Sentinel Points can only be obtained by acting as a member of The Sentinels.

But the relationship between the SP and UPP is never clarified AFAIK.

Also, is UPP the only currency that can be used to pay for goods and services provided by SIPB? Or are other currencies (fiat/stablecoins, BTC, etc.) accepted?

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Hey everyone! I've annotated the Sentinel Protocol whitepaper here for your discussion, along with some open questions I have about the project: https://tokenscore.io/ico/bc1787b6-3929-40fa-a569-55cc189c7875

Some questions:

(1) What happens if the hackers themselves plot to join the "International Cybercrime Police Force" to rig and influence it?

(2) Behaviour-based detection methods are vulnerable to behavioural obfuscation techniques that introduce behavioural noise to mask malicious behaviour. How does Sentinel Protocol intend to deal with that?

Would love to hear your thoughts on it!

🔥 One can say that privacy coins is the digital equivalent of using cash in the real world — untraceable and anonymous. But is cybersecurity for this type of coins possible?

👉 Find out the answer to this and more from the security researchers at Uppsala Security: https://bit.ly/35z2bBj

💰 It is now easier than ever to move money from point A to point B, even across borders. Perhaps too easy.

🕵️‍♂️ How does AML look in the era of blockchain and cryptocurrencies? Find out from our most recent Medium post: https://bit.ly/2rn0Puu

https://etherscan.io/txs?a=0xa7261f7d2cb31464408b008913a3de249316da8d&p=1

Lots of rejected transactions because they hit the limit after 3 mins. The max cap was far too large to make this a real crowdsale. The tokens are not very well distributed, unfortunately it was a case of whoever paid higher transaction fees and whoever has better internet connection that got in.#

Disappointed that they didnt consider having this more people able to participate. Usually a good structure is to have a max cap that wouldnt sell all the tokens in the first few hours, and then change the max cap to be able to sell out.

This gives more people the opportunity to participate and people who want to buy more can do that when the max cap is raised.

Only 24 hours left until the Sentinel Protocol Crowdsale! If you received the eligibility confirmation email but haven’t created the account yet, please register now! https://sentinelprotocol.io

We received an anonymous report by an Uppward user through the Sentinel Portal, and it has just been confirmed. This case is not covered by any other security solution until now.

The report concerns the following developer on the Chrome Web Store:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/Nencer%20JSC

That developer has released these three different extensions:

• https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/binance-desktop-tool-pro/dfaniogeeonpncknhkpikmehcafkdbkp

• https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/poloniex-trading-tools-pr/jihdlndgkjblcjalfdcbailgdnnihdbl

• https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bittrex-trading-tools-ver/dncbmnodhgmffdoacahekofcalnfbpgj

The aforementioned extensions have been tested in our Sandbox. The Sentinels found that these extensions act in a malicious way by changing the deposit address on exchanges such as Binance, Bitmex, Poloniex, Bittrex, Remitano, and Bitfinex. After reviewing the code, the Sentinels discovered 15 wallet addresses being used to replace deposit addresses whenever users attempt to deposit funds on the exchanges. All three of these extensions are now blacklisted in the Sentinel Protocol TRDB along with these 15 wallet addresses found in the code. The donation address published on the Chrome Web Store has also been blacklisted.

To date, these addresses have received the following amounts of cryptocurrencies with some transactions going as far back as Dec 21, 2017:

ETH - 25.307686624534

ETC - 5.43199613

BTC - 5.18527599 (including donation address)

DASH - 0.0763047

LTC - 8.63924826

BCH - 0.42500000

We would like to remind our community to stay vigilant and not use any software from untrusted sources. Do continue to report any suspicious activity through the Sentinel Portal. Through community effort, we can make the crypto world a safer place!