Magento Warns E-Commerce Sites to Upgrade ASAP to Prevent Attacks
The platform is a favorite target for the Magecart collective of card-skimming threat groups.
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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.
DDoS Attacks Target Amazon, SoftLayer and Telecom Infrastructure
The specific type of TCP attack used in the recent spate of DDoS efforts were TCP SYN-ACK reflection attacks.
ThreatList: Data Breaches Batter Stock Prices at Public Companies, For Months
When it comes to bouncing back, long-term impact to share prices from a data breach incident is significant on average for large companies.
The trojan was observed as the final payload in a sophisticated and complex malware installation code set.
Fallout from giants at the top is one of the largest drivers of cyber-impacts on everyday people and companies.
The latest edition of the bi-annual hacking contest saw creative exploits in new device categories.
Flaws in Das U-Boot affect third-party hardware that uses the universal bootloader as an underlying component.
A targeted campaign is delivering an information-stealing malware called Predator the Thief.
The group was exposed after a ShadowBrokers leak.
Stealing payment-card data and PII from e-commerce sites has become so lucrative that some are being targeted by multiple groups at the same time.
