More has emerged – slowly – about the Ticketmaster hack that compromised the personal details of over 560 million customers. Remember the first anyone heard of the hack was from the hackers – ShinyHunters – not from Ticketmaster – when they were attempting to sell the stolen data online. Ticketmaster …
Do you use Ticketmaster for your events?
If so it is time to speak to your cyber security support and check if your customer’s data has been compromised? Ticketmaster confirms massive breach after stolen data for sale online (bleepingcomputer.com) The ransomware gang, Shiny Hunters, has tried to sell the Ticketmaster data on the Dark Web. Here is …
USB cyber-attack – Device Security (Pt. 4)
I thought I was done with device security for the time being – but then, of course, I got a question from a client. “What about USB drives?” Rather than write a completely new article let me reprint an article I wrote for CyberAwake looking at USB storage security – …
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Russian offensive malware spreads outside Ukraine
We have not heard much recently about the cyber war between Ukraine and Russia but here is a story that illustrates what I have been saying about malware creep and collateral damage from deployed malware weapons. By the very nature of online commerce and communications these cyber-weapons will spread outside …
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Why knowing what is installed on your network is important…
Here is a cautionary tale of redundant software. Before Macs got dark mode, many companies produced dark mode applets and many Mac users who could not live without dark mode, downloaded them and used them. Then Apple introduced dark mode and these applets became redundant. Many users uninstalled the applets …
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