Trump's lawyers want him to refuse Mueller interview request: New York Times
Several of U.S. President Donald Trump's lawyers have advised him not to sit down for an interview with a special counsel investigating possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign to influence the 2016 presidential election, the New York Times reported on Monday. Citing four ...
South Korea says North stole cryptocurrency worth billions of won last year
South Korea said Monday that North Korea last year stole cryptocurrency from the South worth billions of won and that it was still trying to hack into its exchanges. "North Korea sent emails that could hack into cryptocurrency exchanges and their customers' private information and ...
Trump pick K.T. McFarland withdraws nomination as envoy to Singapore
K.T. McFarland, picked by President Donald Trump to be the U.S. ambassador to Singapore, withdrew from consideration for the job Friday after her nomination became stalled in the U.S. Senate. McFarland was on Trump's presidential transition team and later appointed deputy national security adviser under ...
Coincheck hackers believed trying to move stolen cryptocurrency into exchanges
XEM cryptocurrency’s creator traces the ¥58 billion in stolen coins to an unidentified account, with its owner trying to move the coins to exchanges where they can be sold.
Sensitive information about the locations of U.S. and allied military bases, apparent troop movements, and even data linked to social media profiles has been revealed in a map released by a popular fitness app company. The Global Heat Map, published by Strava Labs, used GPS ...
Cryptocurrency stolen from Japan's Coincheck was sent to eight separate addresses
Half a billion dollars in cryptocurrency that was stolen from Tokyo-based virtual currency exchange Coincheck in a hacking attack last week was transferred to eight separate digital addresses, sources with knowledge of the matter said Tuesday. Of the ¥58 billion ($532 million) in NEM cryptocurrency ...
Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck to reimburse customers who lost money in massive theft
Cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck says it will use ¥46.3 billion in capital to reimburse all 260,000 customers who lost money in Friday’s NEM coin theft.
Russian-linked bots accounted for 4% of Trump retweets in final months before election
Russian-linked Twitter bots shared Donald Trump's tweets almost half a million times during the final months of the 2016 election campaign, the company said in a submission to Congress. The automated accounts retweeted @realDonaldTrump posts almost 470,000 times, accounting for just over 4 percent of ...
White House counsel McGahn 'fed up' with Trump, threatened to quit job last year
White House Counsel Donald McGahn threatened to quit last June because he was "fed up" after President Donald Trump insisted he take steps to remove the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, a person familiar with the matter said. The New ...
Coincheck hacked in ¥58 billion cryptocurrency heist, four years after Mt. Gox
Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange discloses it had lost about ¥58 billion ($532 million) worth of its holdings, sending clients into a panic.
Vulnerabilities will only grow as technology embeds itself further into our daily life.
Indian government criticized for naming a reporter after article alleges database breach
The Indian government named a reporter in a police complaint after she wrote an article alleging a federal identity database breach, drawing criticism from a journalist group that accused officials of trying to muzzle free speech. The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which runs ...
