InfoSec News Nuggets 8/29/2024

Dick's Sporting Goods discloses cyberattack Dick's Sporting Goods, America's largest retail chain for outdoorsy types, has admitted that it suffered a cyberattack last week. In an SEC 8-K filing, the retailer told the regulator that on August 21, it found an unnamed third party was snooping around its servers, "including portions of its systems containing certain confidential information." However, the filing doesn't state exactly what information was targeted by the attackers. "The company has no knowledge…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 09/01/2022

TikShock: Don’t get caught out by these 5 TikTok scams TikTok continues to shock us all by breaking records and widening its audience, yet unfortunately with such a broad reach, scammers inevitably remain not too far behind. In only six years it has become the dominant social media platform for sharing and viewing short videos and now boasts that viewers in the UK and US are spending more time on TikTok than on YouTube. Cybercriminals are very…
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