Caleb Townsend is a staff writer for the United States Cybersecurity Magazine. He has been crafting his passion for film-making and script writing since childhood. While not a tech person by training, Caleb has held a passion for journalism and writing, which he discovered working for his college newspaper. Caleb graduated from Eastern Mennonite University in 2017, receiving his bachelor’s degree for Digital Media with a minor in Journalism, and is now a full time employee of the United States Cybersecurity Magazine.
Microsoft has revealed that a long spanning data breach, affecting information dating as far back as 14 years, has exposed the data of 250 million users. According to a blog post from the Microsoft Security … Read more
On December 19, 2019, Wawa announced that there was malware on its payment processing server between December 10th and December 12th. This malware affected all of their branches. Now they are announcing that they are … Read more
On Thursday, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) successfully seized and shut down WeLeakInfo, a website dedicated to selling access to billions of personal records seized in data breaches. WeLeakInfo has scavenged data from over … Read more
A logic bomb is a piece of malicious code that hackers insert into a software or operating system. This code lies dormant until a specific condition occurs. These conditions could be a pre-determined time (often … Read more
Landry’s Inc, the Houston-based parent company of over 600 restaurants, casinos, and hotels across the United States, has released a blog post notice informing their customers of a data breach. Some of the restaurants potentially … Read more
LifeLabs has revealed that 15 million Canadians may have had their data leaked after a being hit with a cyber-attack in October. LifeLabs is a diagnostics testing company, the largest healthcare laboratory test company in … Read more
Cybersecurity threats, as we discussed in our recent 2019 data breach article, were a huge problem in 2019. Within the first 6 months, Forbes reported that 2019 yielded 3,800 publicly disclosed breaches, a 52% increase … Read more
StandHogg Hits Google Store According to Forbes, Google Android Threats continue to permeate through malware ridden apps that may affect many Android users. Researchers at the Norwegian app security company Promon claim that safe apps … Read more
Montgomery County Public Schools has suffered a data breach at the hands of a student, compromising the data of nearly 6,000 students. Montgomery has put out a Data Incident Response report informing their student body … Read more
Mixcloud, a British online crowd-sourced streaming service, disclosed that 21 million user accounts have been stolen from the site and are being sold on the dark web. According to Vice, the seller, “A_W_S”, is asking … Read more
