Tickets on sale now for TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa 2018 – TechCrunch

What’s the next best thing to competing in TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa 2018? Being part of the live audience and watching up to 15 of sub-Saharan Africa’s best innovators, makers and technical entrepreneurs launch their early-stage startups to the world in our premier startup-pitch competition. Startup Battlefield Africa 2018 takes place in Lagos, Nigeria on December 11.…

Buy your ticket to TechCrunch Startup Battlefield MENA 2018 today – TechCrunch

We’re less than one month away from hosting our first Startup Battlefield pitch competition in the Middle East and North Africa. Holy smokes, we’re so excited to showcase the region’s most promising early-stage startups at TechCrunch Startup Battlefield MENA 2018 on October 3 in Beirut, Lebanon. We’ve selected the participating startups, and their founders are…

Hackers ran cryptocurrency mining malware on Indian government sites

The crypto-jacking epidemic has spread to India. It has come to light that tons of Indian government sites have been infected with cryptocurrency mining malware, designed to steal visitors’ computing power to earn coins. Among others, the attackers targeted the websites of the Andhra Pradesh municipality, the Tirupati Municipal Corporation, and the Macherla municipality, the…