Ticketmaster Chat Feature Leads to Credit-Card Breach
Name, address, email address, telephone number, payment details and Ticketmaster login details were potentially compromised for tens of thousands of customers.
Tara Seals
About
Tara Seals has nearly 25 years of experience as a journalist, analyst and editor in the communications and technology space. Prior to Threatpost, Tara was the North American news lead for Infosecurity Magazine, and spent 13 years working for Informa (formerly Virgo Publishing), as executive editor and editor-in-chief at publications focused on both the service provider and the enterprise arenas. A Texas native, she holds a B.A. from Columbia University, lives in Western Massachusetts with her family and is on a never-ending quest for good Mexican food in the Northeast.
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The planned threading in shared memory update gives bad actors a way around the timer mitigations released by browser vendors.
The emails claim that all of the victim’s devices have been hacked and infected with the infamous ransomware — and then ask for Bitcoin to “fix” it.
The agency doesn’t ask for explicit consent to collect the voiceprints; and, the deletion and erasure process lacks transparency.
Malefactors have doubled down on duping Fortnite enthusiasts, releasing YouTube videos with links to scam versions of the game. And that’s not all.
Far from being a simple hacktivist filled with an impulse for social justice, a different picture emerges when his activity is collated together.
The Roku streaming video device and the Sonos Wi-Fi speakers suffer from the same DNS rebinding flaw reported in Google Home and Chromecast devices earlier this week.
Attackers use the approach to look like legitimate traffic and hide data exfiltration in plain sight.
A new botnet from the Dark Web displays a never-before-seen level of complexity in terms of the sheer breadth of its various tools.
