Easter Brings News of Data Breaches

While Christians over the globe were celebrating the Easter weekend, news of three separate data breaches surfaced. On Saturday, 20 April 2019, a popular health and fitness platform Bodybuliding.com alerted its customers of a security breach detected during February 2019 which was the direct result of a phishing email received back in July 2018. Bodybuilding.com is the world's largest fitness website, with a community of over 1,000,000 BodySpace members and more than 17,000,000 forum members, as well as over 32,000,000 orders shipped all over the world since its online shop was opened for business. Along with the announcement two separate health care companies also suffered data breaches. With regards to the health care companies, one company illustrated how an organization should deal with a breach and another the wrong way. Returning to the Bodybuilding.com data breach, the company announced that the breach may...

Search.terraarcade.com Redirect

Search.terraarcade.com is one of the many search engines that are promoted through some potentially unwanted application (PUA), a browser hijacker. This app is called Terra Arcade. Like most search engines of this type, search.terraarcade.com is promoted as useful and capable of providing its users with faster searches, accurate results and so on. However, it like most browser hijackers, Terra Arcade changes browser's settings and gathers data related to its user's browsing habits. It is not recommended to have such apps installed or to use search engines that are promoted through them. Typically, apps like Terra Arcade can be installed on browsers such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. One way or another, when installed, this app changes browser's settings such as default search engine, homepage and new tab's URL. It changes them to search.terraarcade.com, which means people who h...