Macy’s is notifying customers of a data breach involving unauthorized access to their payment card data and personal information. From the article: “Based on our investigation, we believe that an unauthorized third-party – from approximately April 26, 2018, through June… Read More ›
Today, in partnership with City House of Plano, I was able to deliver a refurbished laptop loaded with software to a young person getting ready to start college. Thanks to your donations and support this young adult will not be… Read More ›
WARNING: Adobe has released information about a critical vulnerability within the popular Flash Player software and browser extensions. From Adobe: “Adobe is aware of a report that an exploit for CVE-2018-5002 exists in the wild, and is being used in… Read More ›
Krebs on Security published an interesting article today regarding ID thieves setting up cell phone accounts in victim’s names without going through the major credit reporting agencies. He learned that there is a separate reporting agency that provides data to… Read More ›
Prince Hotels and Resorts is reporting a breach to their reservation systems. From the article: 1) 43 hotels, total of 58,003 data of full name, nationality, zip code, home address, contact number, email address, booked price, booking number, booked hotel… Read More ›
Hackers phishing for sensitive information faked an email from a regional organization to break into the Fredericksburg school system’s electronic mail and file system last month. It was a professional phishing attempt and it fooled a number of people. From… Read More ›
Hello Readers! I stumbled on to this story posted to Reddit and I thought I would share. I could see myself falling for this. “Recently, I inadvertently participated as the middle man in a credit card scam, and I wanted… Read More ›
More evidence that the next war will be fought in cyberspace… The hacking group behind Olympic Destroyer cyberattack are back with new cyberattacks against biological and chemical threat prevention laboratories. From the article: “Now according to a new report published… Read More ›
Latest Hacking News is reporting a breach of another health care provider, CarePartners, which is based in Ontario, Canada. From the article: “The cyber-attack breached CarePartners’ computer system and as a result, patient and employee information held in that system,… Read More ›
The ancestry and family tree website myheritage.com has reported a data breach that is limited to user’s email addresses. No passwords, credit card data, family tree data, or other information was compromised. This probably means a whole lot more spam… Read More ›
Multiple sites are reporting that the ticket purchasing website Ticketfly has been compromised. There are claims on some dark web sites that they have information for sale of the users and not just the venues. If you are using or… Read More ›
Trend Micro is reporting a new phishing campaign targeting Apple users is attempting to trick victims into updating their profiles under the guise it’s a part of proactive security program. From the article: “The phishing email looked like a legitimate email… Read More ›
(From Bleeping Computer) A new phishing email scam is under way that pretends to be from a company’s human resources (HR) department and requests that the recipient read and acknowledge an attached “Rules of Conduct” document. This document, though, prompts… Read More ›
I recently purchased a used iPad on eBay to setup for one of my parents. When I received the device I was shocked to find it completely intact from the owner. In other words, the device had all of the… Read More ›
