It’s a safe bet that over the past few weeks you have made an online purchase or two. You add your items to the cart and then check out. But just how secure is that shopping cart? Thousands of online vendors use a similar type of base-code for that shopping cart and hackers were recently able to access the systems at Macy’s, add a few small lines of code to the shopping cart and for a week they had access to data from every customer.
On this week’s episode of CYBER24, presented by VLCM, we dive into what happened with Macy’s,learn more about the Megacart attack and how it is a concern for every website with a shopping cart.
You can read the full story here. Macy’s says its website leaked credit card info to hackers for a week
Also, hundreds of millions of people may have had their text messages exposed online. If that’s not a headline that will catch your attention, I’m not sure what will. You may have become accustomed to data breaches or email compromise but text messages have become a primary source for information. We send a lot. We read a lot. And we generally trust that those texts are private.
You can read the full story here: ‘Hundreds of millions of people’ may have had their text messages exposed online, researchers say
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