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  Cisco has been hacked! U.S. networking giant Cisco Systems has been hacked, the company confirmed on Wednesday, after Yanluowang ransomware operators claimed the attack on their leak site. But according to Cisco’s Talos threat intelligence team, the breach resulted in the exfiltraton of inconsequential data and the booting of the attackers from Cisco’s systems and corporate network. They repeatedly try to get back in, the analysts said, but despite using various advanced techniques weren’t able to repeat their initial feat. What happened? According the Talos analysts, the attackers started by gaining control of a Cisco employee’s personal Google account. “The user had enabled password syncing via Google Chrome and had stored their Cisco credentials in their browser, enabling that information to synchronize to their Google account. After obtaining the user’s credentials, the attacker attempted to bypass multifactor authentication (MFA) using a variety of techniques, including voice ph

  Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong — known in the West as Jay Y. Lee — has won a presidential pardon by South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, allowing the grandson of Samsung’s founder to resume leadership of the powerful conglomerate,  Bloomberg  reports. The pardon will be formalized on August 15th. The presidential pardon is reminiscent of the two given to Lee’s father, Lee Kun-hee, who was convicted of corruption and tax evasion in 1996 and 2008. “In a bid to overcome the economic crisis by revitalizing the economy, Samsung Electronics vice chairman Lee Jae-yong, whose suspended prison term ended recently, will be reinstated,” the South Korean government said in a statement reported by the  Financial Times . The pardon is the latest turn in a bribery scandal that dates back to 2017, when Lee was accused of bribing then-President Park Geun-hye. The Samsung heir was initially sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty of corruption but served less than one year of his senten

  Who would have thought that all it would take to hack Starlink, SpaceX's worldwide internet service, would be a $25 modchip? Lennert Wouters, a security researcher from Belgium, was able to hack into Starlink's network as well as its communication links and explore the entire system freely. While that sounds pretty scary, he didn't do it maliciously. Before he ever talked about the hack in public, he made sure to report it to Starlink in full, and SpaceX's response to the hack was nothing short of incredible. Most of us associate hackers with all kinds of evil endeavors, and rightfully so. After all, we've all heard the tale (or have been there ourselves) of a friend or a family member getting hacked in one way or another. Moreover, organizations suffer from cybersecurity hacks and attacks very frequently. As an example, not too long ago, Samsung was hit by a cyberattack in which some sensitive internal data was stolen. Seeing as these attacks happen with an incre