Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

On August 8, 2023, the Massachusetts Gaming Commission approved 205 CMR 257: Sports Wagering Data Privacy , a set of regulations designed to create new rights and obligations with respect to sports betting operators’ use of patrons’ Confidential Information or Personally Identifiable Information.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 26, 2023

Malware-Infected Watches Are the New USB Thumb Drive for Social Engineers Are unsolicited smartwatches the new USB thumb drive? Army warns that service members are being sent free wearables preloaded with malware designed to steal data from mobile devices as well as intercept voice communications and hijack cameras.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2022

Several EA Sports FIFA 22 players claim to have been hacked, they say to have lost access to their personal EA and email accounts. A growing number of EA Sports FIFA 22 players reported that their EA accounts were hacked, including famous streamers such as Jamie Bateson (AKA Bateson87), NickRTFM, Trymacs, TisiSchubecH and FUT FG.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The personal information of 540,000 sports referees, league officials, and school representatives has been compromised following a ransomware attack targeting a software vendor for the athletics industry. The post Data of 540,000 Sports Referees, League Officials Compromised appeared first on Adam Levin.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 5, 2022

Increased collaboration between the public and private sectors hasn't slowed the increased frequency and ease of ransomware intrusions, but efforts to change the financial incentives of ransomware are having "a pretty good effect," says Marc Rogers, vice president of cybersecurity strategy at Okta.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The database containing personal information of over 600,000 clients of the US fitness chain Town Sports was exposed on the Internet. US fitness chain Town Sports has suffered a data breach, a database belonging to the company containing the personal information of over 600,000 people was exposed on the Internet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2021

A cyber attack hit four affiliated online sports gear sites and resulted in the theft of credit cards for 1,813,224 customers. Threat actors have stolen credit cards belonging to 1,813,224 customers of four affiliated online sports gear sites. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini. The post 1.8

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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2021

The Swedish Sports Confederation organization was compromised in 2017-18 by hackers working for Russian military intelligence, officials said. In the same period, Russia-linked hackers working for the military intelligence service GRU targeted other prominent sporting bodies, including World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and FIFA.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 18, 2023

At this year’s National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention, the IBM sports and entertainment team accepted an Emmy® Award for its advancements in curating sports highlights through artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). These include the Masters , the GRAMMYs , US Open Tennis , Wimbledon and ESPN.

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Threatpost

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

An alleged sports content pirate is accused of not only hijacking leagues' streams but also threatening to tell reporters how he accessed their systems.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2023

To know how consumers should act to protect themselves give a look at the original post at: [link] About the author: Ernestas Naprys , Senior Journalist at CyberNews Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, APT41 ) The post Nice Suzuki, sport: shame dealer left your data up (..)

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Decathlon, the world’s largest sporting goods retailer, has suffered a massive data breach, affecting 123 million customer and employee records. The post Sports retail giant Decathlon leaks 123 million customer and employee records appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Hackers have stolen naked photos and videos from hundreds of female sports stars and celebrities and leaked them online. Threat actors have stolen naked photos and videos from hundreds of female sports stars and celebrities and leaked them online. ” reported The Times. Pierluigi Paganini.

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OpenText Information Management

JANUARY 11, 2019

Having joined OpenText in 1995, Mei has now become a prominent leader in the company and a big proponent of diversity and inclusion – … The post Technology is a team sport appeared first on OpenText Blogs. Mei Dent, VP Engineering at OpenText™ knows first-hand how varied and inspiring a career in the tech industry can be.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Reports: Platform's Entire Source Code Compromised in 125GB Leak Amazon-owned video streaming service Twitch, which focuses on video games and e-sports broadcasts, reportedly suffered a massive data breach, which the company vaguely confirmed via Twitter.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2024

Liquipedia, an online e-sports platform run by Team Liquid, exposed a database revealing its users’ email addresses and other details. Users of the e-sports knowledge base were exposed via a publicly accessible and passwordless MongoDB database, the Cybernews research team has discovered. Our team contacted Liquipedia in late October.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

BlackByte Ransomware-as-a-Service Group Claimed 49ers as Victims in February The NFL's San Francisco 49ers will notify more than 20,000 Americans that online attackers likely stole their name and Social Security number from the sports franchise's corporate network in a February network security incident.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Cybercrooks have drained DraftKings accounts of $300K in the past few days thanks to credential stuffing, just as the 2022 FIFA World Cup starts up.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 9, 2021

Pets, Sports Teams, Notable Dates and Family Member Names Predominate, Experts Warn Loving your pet and creating tough-to-crack passwords should remain two distinctly separate activities. Unfortunately, Britain's National Cyber Security Center reports that more than 1 in 6 Brits admit to using the name of a pet as their password.

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Adapture

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

ATLANTA, Nov 23rd, 2020 – ADAPTURE, Acer, Black Box, and Ergotron will sponsor an upcoming e-sports competition streamed by Cxmmunity on December 6th, 2020. The Call of Duty competition is open to e-sports leagues at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), in partnership with Twitch. ABOUT ADAPTURE.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Russia-linked cyber-espionage group Fancy Bear has carried out multiple cyberattacks targeting sporting and anti-doping organizations across the world. The post Fancy Bear continues to target sporting and anti-doping organizations appeared first on Security Affairs. ” reads the post published by Microsoft. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Dark Reading

MAY 18, 2022

From a scrappy contest where hackers tried to win laptops, Pwn2Own has grown into a premier event that has helped normalize bug hunting.

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Dark Reading

APRIL 23, 2020

During unprecedented times such as these, both businesses and professional sports are forced to go back to basics.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Black Friday Attack Affected Intersport Outlets in Northern France The Hive ransomware-as-a-service group says it posted customer data obtained during a November attack against French sports retailer Intersport.

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Threatpost

MAY 17, 2021

The advanced Brazilian malware has gone global, harvesting bank logins from Android mobile users.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 7, 2024

23andMe is blaming end users for account takeover attacks (it's obviously lawyery deflection, but they're also partly right) Anyone got a security contact at Capelli Sport? (I'll I'll give that line a push publicly this coming week, it's just nuts how hard it is to report this stuff)

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Threatpost

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The APT is once again targeting the sports world, Microsoft warns.

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Dark Reading

AUGUST 1, 2023

It also sports persistence through reboots. The Hidden Virtual Network Computing (hVNC) malware infests Macs and silently executes complete takeovers, with no user permission needed.

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Archives Blogs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The University of Stirling Archives is delighted to be hosting a visit from members of the Scottish Ex-Boxers Association to celebrate National Sporting Heritage Day 2019. Guests of honour will include Olympic gold medallist Dick McTaggart and Commonwealth Games gold medallist Charlie Kane. Follow the action at #NSHD2019.

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Archives Blogs

AUGUST 15, 2018

These two sports are the last of a long project for the Digital Library Center, the digitization of all the sports media guides for FSU teams that the Archives currently holds. The sports media guide is essentially the press kit for that season’s team. Do you have media guides to help fill in the blanks in our collection?

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 30, 2023

UK sportswear retailer asks exposed customers to stay "vigilant" against phishing attempts following cyberattack.

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Threatpost

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The P2P malware is infecting any and all types of endpoints via brute-forcing, with 10 versions targeting desktops, laptops, mobile and IoT devices.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 21, 2023

My latest book, A Hacker’s Mind , has a lot of sports stories. Sports are filled with hacks, as players look for every possible advantage that doesn’t explicitly break the rules.

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Attensa

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

What if keeping up-to-date was a team sport? Leaders recognize the importance of tapping into the wealth of information outside of their organizations. The question is how to do that efficiently, effectively … and together. For example, trends and new developments, customers, competitors, opportunities, risks, best practices, etc.

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Threatpost

DECEMBER 3, 2020

A new "TrickBoot" module scans for vulnerable firmware and has the ability to read, write and erase it on devices.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

This is a fascinating glimpse of the future of automatic cheating detection in sports: Maybe you heard about the truly insane false-start controversy in track and field? In sports, computer systems are used to detect when a ball is out of bounds in tennis and other games and when a pitch is a strike in baseball.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Spam volume declined slightly in the third quarter, but attackers sent almost 36 million malicious e-mail attachments, up 5% from the previous quarter, one security firm says.

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