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The US Department of Justice is prioritizing its investigations into ransomware attacks that have ground several industries in the country to a halt.
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By Victor Tangermann

Hackers managed to force the shutdown of all the US-based beef plants of the world's largest meat producer JBS SA, according to Bloomberg.
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By Victor Tangermann

A new gene therapy partially restored a blind man's vision by programming his cells to produce the light-sensitive protein found in algae.
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By Dan Robitzski

Blockchains Were Supposed to Be “Unhackable.” Now They’re Getting Hacked.
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By Victor Tangermann

Vladimir Putin is reportedly terrified of far-fetched genetic weaponry, so security was his top priority when creating a national genetics research program.
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By Dan Robitzski

Game developer CD Projekt Red, creator of video games including Cyberpunk 2077, became the victim of a targeted cyberattack.
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By Victor Tangermann

A hacker remotely accessed a computer of Oldsmar, Florida's water treatment system and attempted to increase the amount of sodium hydroxide or lye 100 fold.
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By Victor Tangermann

Hacker Says He Got Into Trump’s Twitter Account
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By Victor Tangermann

To fight climate change, experts suggest gene-hacking plants and animals to cut emissions and better sequester carbon from the atmosphere.
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By Dan Robitzski

In a landmark study, researchers have used gene editing to remove the oral herpes virus (HSV-1) in mice. The technique could also work in humans.
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By Victor Tangermann

UK authorities issued a warning on Thursday, claiming that Russian hackers with ties to the Kremlin have been targeting coronavirus vaccine research.
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By Victor Tangermann

Google's security team confirmed that both the Trump and Biden campaigns were targeted by foreign hackers, with different countries targeting each.
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By Dan Robitzski

Hackers are creating their own coronavirus maps to infect users with malware, stealing sensitive data including credit card numbers in the process.
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By Victor Tangermann

Man Sues Amazon, Claims Ring Camera Hackers Harassed His Kids
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By Kristin Houser

On Friday, OurMine's hackers took over the Instagram and Twitter accounts of social media giant Facebook in an apparent effort to drum up business.
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By Kristin Houser

When the FBI raided the home of a man suspected of hacking Nintendo servers, they found a folder directory containing child pornography on his electronics.
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By Kristin Houser

The United Nations (UN) was the target of a sophisticated hack in the summer of 2019, according to a newly leaked internal report.
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By Kristin Houser

A group calling itself OurMine hacked the official social media accounts of the National Football League and 15 NFL teams.
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By Kristin Houser

Two more United States websites have been hacked to display pro-Iranian propaganda, though it's still unclear whether Iran itself is behind the attacks.
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By Kristin Houser

New Orleans is the latest city to be targeted by ransomware hackers, but after a weekend-long emergency response, it seems to be back to normal.
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By Dan Robitzski

Creeps have used Ring cameras to hack into customers' homes, using the internet-connected cameras to spy on and harass families and children.
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By Dan Robitzski

An American biotech firm claims it can slow or reverse human aging through gene-hacking, but the entire premise is scientificially questionable.
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By Dan Robitzski

Hackers were advertising thousands of stolen and hacked Disney+ accounts and credentials online within hours of the streaming service's launch.
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By Kristin Houser

The New York Times (NYT) fired its Senior Director of Information Security and eliminated the position, leaving reporters to defend themselves from hackers.
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By Dan Robitzski

Researchers managed to extend the lifespan of lab mice significantly, making them live longer by cultivating embryonic cells without genetic modification.
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By Victor Tangermann

A Dutch sex worker website has been hacked, with the thief getting away with the email addresses and other data of more than 250,000 users.
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By Kristin Houser

Cybercriminals have use a bit of malicious code to hack the official Sesame Street online store — and potentially 20,000 other e-commerce sites.
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By Kristin Houser

Scientists figured out how to breed hornless bulls by editing their genes, providing a painless alternative to horn-removing procedures.
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By Dan Robitzski

This Silicon-Valley based psychiatrist wants people to take a break from over-stimulation through "dopamine hacking." Some have already taken it too far.
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By Victor Tangermann

When scientists released gene-hacked mosquitoes into the wild population in Jacobino, Brazil, they thought it would quell the bugs. They had no such luck.
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By Dan Robitzski

Google security researchers have uncovered an extensive iPhone hacking effort that may have compromised thousands of users weekly for years.
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By Kristin Houser

A smart doorbell home security video surfaced that allegedly shows two UK thieves hacking into a Tesla and driving away in just 30 seconds.
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By Victor Tangermann

A Bulgarian hacker took control of the country's tax agency and also hijacked the sprinkler system outside of Parliament.
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By Dan Robitzski

The source of a major Capital One data breach is now in federal custody after authorities were able to track the hacker down via her own social media posts.
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By Kristin Houser

By killing the WannaCry ransomware, British cybersecurity expert Marcus Hutchins may have saved himself from a decade in jail and a $500,000 fine.
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By Kristin Houser

Neither the government nor private tech companies have taken steps to protect the 2020 presidential election from being manipulated.
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By Dan Robitzski

Hackers from Xenotime, which previously took down a Saudi oil plant, are now attempting to breach American power plants with their malware Triton.
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By Dan Robitzski

A hacker allegedly stole an entire MiniDisc archive and demanded a ransom. Radiohead called the bluff and put the archive of demos on sale for charity.
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By Victor Tangermann

Some 100,000 travelers had their images and license plate numbers stored by U.S. Customs stolen by hackers, The New York Times reports.
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By Victor Tangermann

Firms designed to help victims of ransomware attacks often just paid the attackers off, according to a new ProPublica investigation.
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By Kristin Houser

In April, bank hackers stole the equivalent of $20 million from Mexico's central bank thanks to a network rife with security flaws.
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By Kristin Houser

2020 Presidential hopeful Beto O'Rourke was reportedly part of the hacktivist group known as the Cult of the Dead Cow during his teenage years.
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By Dan Robitzski

Beware of Bots is a new marketing campaign that hacked printers to send out a warning about automation, urging people to switch careers.
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By Dan Robitzski

According to a damning new internal review, the U.S. Navy is getting hacked so much that it can't even tell how much intel has been stolen.
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By Dan Robitzski

George Hotz told a crowd at SXSW that he suspects we live in a simulation, and he wants to find a way to break out of it.
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By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have proven that we can use CRISPR to create gene drives for mice, opening up a wealth of new possibilities for the technology.
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By Kristin Houser

A team from UC Berkeley has discovered that CasX could be a better CRISPR protein for human gene-editing than the commonly researched Cas9.
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By Kristin Houser

A new Reuters investigation reveals that the UAE used a sophisticated hacking tool to easily access iPhone messages, pictures, and passwords.
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By Dan Robitzski

To beef up cybersecurity before the upcoming 2020 Toyko Olympics, the Japanese Government is about to systematically hack the country's IoT devices.
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By Dan Robitzski

Researchers are gene-hacking plants to make them gigantic. The idea is that it could vastly increase food yields for farmers.
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By Jon Christian

Someone hacked NASA servers, potentially stealing the personal info of employees in the process, according to an internal memo.
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By Kristin Houser

According to a new report, it could take 20 years for quantum-safe encryption to become mainstream. And that's bad news.
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By Victor Tangermann

Here’s What Experts Think of Stephen Hawking’s Posthumous Predictions About AI, Gene Hacking, and Religion
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By Jon Christian

Breaking: Hackers Accessed 50 Million Facebook Accounts
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By Jon Christian

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By Kristin Houser

Diabetes Patients Are Hacking Together the Tech They Need. Doctors Are Just Tuning In.
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By Kristin Houser

Pre-Teen Hackers Prove It: The U.S. Election System Simply Isn’t Secure Enough
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By Kristin Houser

Researcher presents ways hackers could manipulate today's SATCOM to affect the aviation, maritime, and military industries.
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By Kristin Houser

Open-source tool Social Mapper can help white hat hackers keep up with the black hats, but also has the potential to create more of the latter.
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By Kristin Houser

The FCC hack from May 2017 wasn't really a hack, says FCC chairman Ajit Pai, who now blames the misunderstanding on an Obama-era hire.
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By Kristin Houser

The Department of Homeland Security revealed in a briefing that Russians hacked U.S. utility companies
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By Kristin Houser

We Knew Russian Hackers Infiltrated Americans’ Inboxes. Now We Know How.
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By Kristin Houser

Hackers Target Yet Another South Korean Crypto Exchange, Steal $32 Million
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By Kristin Houser

It’s Now Scary to Be A White Hat Hacker Thanks to the US Government
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By Dan Robitzski