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Ticketmaster UK, a leading ticketing company and part of Ticketmaster, has been fined £ 1.25 million by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) as it failed to protect customer data during the infamous February 2018 data breach. The company is stil… Continue reading The ICO Fines Ticketmaster UK £1.25 Million for Security Failures: A Lesson to be Learned
Crooks made bogus accounts to buy tickets with fake credit cards, resold them to unsuspecting buyers, and left the database-o-fraud wide open. Continue reading Leaky database full of fake Groupon emails turns out to belong to crooks
An exposed database containing 17 million email addresses exposed a massive fraud scheme impacting vendors like Groupon and Ticketmaster. Continue reading Major Groupon, Ticketmaster Fraud Scheme Exposed By Insecure Database
Ticketmaster’s dominance has led to ridiculous service fees, scalpers galore, and exclusive contracts that exploit venues and artists. The moronic approval of venue operator and artist management giant Live Nation’s merger with Ticketmaster in 2010 produced an anti-competitive juggernaut. It pressures venues to sign ticketing contracts under veiled threat that artists would otherwise be routed […] Continue reading The Ticket Fairy is tech’s best hope against Ticketmaster
A British firm of solicitors, which specialises in helping victims of cybercrime claim compensation, has launched a £5 million (US $6.5 million) legal action against Ticketmaster.
Continue reading Ticketmaster is hit by a £5 million legal action after online payment card theft
If you have rushed to score exclusive concert tickets online, the chances of you competing against a human are dwindling. According to new research, nearly 40 percent of traffic to ticketing websites is made up of bots, automated programs used by brokers and cybercriminals to do everything from denying customers inventory and scalping tickets to taking over customer accounts to commit fraud. An analysis of 26.3 billion requests from 180 websites reveals that bad bots made up 39.9 percent of ticketing traffic between September and December 2018, according to the bot mitigation company Distil Networks. Seventy-eight percent of bots evaded detection by relying on human-like behavior, and most (42.2 percent) targeted the primary ticket markets, compared to 23.9 percent that hit secondary markets. Distil suggested this kind of bot traffic hurts ticket sellers by making it more difficult to purchase tickets, which results in frustrated fans and artists complaining on […]
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A look back at the blizzard of breaches that made up 2018.
Continue reading 2018: A Banner Year for Breaches
How Taylor Swift used Facial Recognition to Thwart Stalkers, unlocking android phones with a 3D printed head, Ticketmaster fails to take responsibility for malware, and it’s December of 2018, To Hell with it, Just patch your stuff already! Paul&#… Continue reading Taylor Swift, KringleCon, & 3D Head – Paul’s Security Weekly #586
Experts sound off on how companies can work with their third-party suppliers and partners to secure the end-to-end supply chain. Continue reading Supply Chain Security: Managing a Complex Risk Profile
Magecart, a tool used by a broad set of hackers to steal online payment data, has been rampant in recent months. The group has allegedly breached popular websites like those of British Airways and Ticketmaster UK by injecting malicious scripts directly or through third-parties to siphon off customer data en masse. With the body of forensic evidence tied to Magecart growing, researchers with analytics company Securonix have released recommendations for defending against the groups. The goal is keep online vendors from being Magecart’s next high-profile scalp. The threat data can “increase the chances of early detection of this, and potentially other future variants of the Magecart malicious threat actor activity on your network,” Securonix’s Oleg Kolesnikov and Harshvardhan Parashar wrote in a research paper. There are at least three data channels that organizations need to monitor to boost their chances of detecting Magecart, according to Kolesnikov and Parashar: web server […]
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