Pear, whose seed-stage bets are followed closely, just raised $160 million for its third fund – TechCrunch

Pear, a six-year-old, Palo Alto, Ca.-based seed-stage firm whose bets on nascent startups are closely watched by early stage investors, has closed on $160 million in capital commitments from a wide array of backers, including a previous investor, the University of Chicago. It’s more than twice the $75 million that the firm raised for its…

Hackers can jack ShapeShift’s crypto wallets in 15 minutes, Kraken warns

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a glaring vulnerability in the KeepKey cryptocurrency hardware wallet that allows physical attackers to steal funds in just 15 minutes. Kraken Security Labs’ latest blog details a “voltage glitching” attack that extracts the encrypted seed used to access cryptocurrency stored on the device. An attacker can then brute force the encrypted seed, as…