Cybersecurity

South Africa – Nando’s Peri-Peri

A credential stuffing incident gave customers of this popular high street restaurant chain a little more than they bargained for after several customers discovered that huge orders had been placed using their online accounts. to comply with COVID-19 operating regulations, Nando’s customers who are getting takeout are required to scan a QR code with their…

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Cybersecurity

United States – Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble has been starring in its own horror story, as a massive network outage for its Nook customers rolled into the discovery of a massive cyberattack. The bookseller informed customers that it had experienced a data breach that exposed customers’ transaction histories and PII. Recovery and restoration efforts are underway. It’s unknown if…

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Cybersecurity

United States – Pfizer

In a monster week for pharma hacking, Pfizer leads the pack with a substantial data breach that it brought on itself. In a huge blunder, unsecured and unencrypted data containing logs, transcripts, and details of patient helpline conversations was leaked from a misconfigured Google Cloud storage bucket. The exposed data included detailed information regarding hundreds…

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Managed Services

4 Checks to Authenticate Sender of an Email

With phishing and spam emails on the rise, they not only pose cybersecurity threat to the recipient’s organization, but also end up wasting productivity of those who are on the receiving end. In most cases, people have to sift through such emails which requires opening emails and reading such emails before they are identified as suspicious…

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