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Chinese Hackers Infiltrate Taiwanese A presentation at the Black Hat (virtual) Security Conference this week revealed details of a number of hacking operations aimed at the Taiwanese semiconductor industry. The Taiwanese security firm CyCraft presented details of its investigation at the conference. At least seven Taiwanese companies were penetrated in …

Hackers Might Have Paid a Twitter Employee to Conduct Massive Crypto Scam The dust is still settling after yesterday’s massive Twitter hack, and there are numerous questions that still need to be answered. While Twitter’s initial response blamed hackers targeting employees with phishing attacks, some reports claim the hackers had …

Cows are generally not top of mind among those who call the animal pen, South of Market, San Francisco, home. But BovControl, a Brazilian startup building data analytics tools to support livestock operations, is working to close the gap between technologists and ranchers. Host of the Internet of Cows hackathon, in partnership with Google Launchpad and The Silicon …

A report published in a Los Angeles Valley College school newspaper, explains that a college whose whole system was hacked by the group of hackers paid $28,000 ransom to the hackers in order to get their system back. The report says that the cyber attack happened on the January 3rd of this year, which …

Image copyright AP Image caption Russian hacking group Fancy Bears has been linked to high-profile cyberattacks German politicians have warned that hackers and others acting for the Russian state could undermine Germany’s general elections next year. The German election is at risk from “outside manipulation”, said Wolfgang Bosbach, a senior …

Yahoo has said that it will be resetting passwords of several users after it identified a “coordinated effort to gain unauthorised access” to those users Yahoo Mail accounts. The company did not share much detail about the attack, like how many accounts were affected. It did say, however, that the …