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Reading Time: ~2 min.Ticketmaster Snafu Only Tip of the Iceberg After last month’s Ticketmaster breach, a follow-up investigation found it to be part of a larger payment card compromising campaign affecting more than 800 online retail sites world… Continue reading Cyber News Rundown: Ticketmaster Hack Reveals Mega Breach
Reading Time: ~2 min.Canadian college breach targets thousands Last Friday, Algonquin College officials announced that an earlier data breachpotentially affected thousands of current and former students, as well as employees. While it is still unclear … Continue reading Cyber News Rundown: Adidas US customers’ personal information stolen
Reading Time: ~2 min.Weaponized USB Drives Targeting Japan and South Korea In an effort to target air-gapped internal systems, a new wave of weaponized USB drives has been found throughout Japanese and South Korean organizations. While these attacks ar… Continue reading Cyber News Rundown: Weaponized USB Drives
Reading Time: ~2 min.Apple Bans All Cryptocurrency Mining Apps from App Store Apple has made several policy changes over the last few days that will effectively ban all cryptocurrency mining features from apps in the App Store. This change comes not lo… Continue reading Cyber News Rundown: Apple Bans Crypto Mining Apps
Reading Time: ~2 min.The Cyber News Rundown brings you the latest happenings in cybersecurity news weekly. Who am I? I’m Connor Madsen, a Webroot Threat Research Analyst and a guy with a passion for all things security. Any questions? Just ask. 9… Continue reading Cyber News Rundown: MyHeritage Breached
Reading Time: ~3 min.GDPR represents a massive paradigm shift for global businesses. Every organization that handles data belonging to European residents must now follow strict security guidelines and businesses are now subject to hefty fines if data b… Continue reading Is GDPR a Win for Cybercriminals?
Reading Time: ~2 min.The Cyber News Rundown brings you the latest happenings in cybersecurity news weekly. Who am I? I’m Connor Madsen, a Webroot Threat Research Analyst and a guy with a passion for all things security. Any questions? Just ask. M… Continue reading Cyber News Rundown: Hackable Mercedes
Reading Time: ~2 min.The Cyber News Rundown brings you the latest happenings in cybersecurity news weekly. Who am I? I’m Connor Madsen, a Webroot Threat Research Analyst and a guy with a passion for all things security. Any questions? Just ask. C… Continue reading Cyber News Rundown: Comcast Router Bug
Reading Time: ~2 min.Chili’s Restaurant Reveals Payment Card Breach In the last week, officials have discovered a data breach that affects an unknown number of the chain’s 1,600 restaurants across the country. It is believed that the breach… Continue reading Cyber News Rundown: Chili’s PoS Breached
Reading Time: ~2 min.Crypto Mining Makes the Jump to Excel With the recent Microsoft release supporting JavaScript within Excel, it was only a matter of time before the scripting service was manipulated to mine cryptocurrency. Mere hours after the rele… Continue reading Cyber News Rundown: Excel JavaScript Support May Open Door to Exploits