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Lindsey O’Donnell-Welch

Executive Editor

Lindsey O’Donnell-Welch is an award-winning journalist who strives to shed light on how security issues impact not only businesses and defenders on the front line, but also the daily lives of consumers.

In her previous position at Threatpost, Lindsey covered all aspects of the cybersecurity industry - from data privacy regulatory efforts to the evolution of underground cybercriminal marketplaces. Prior to that, Lindsey specialized in writing about microprocessors, enterprise business technology and the Internet of Things at CRN. In Lindsey’s spare time, she enjoys playing tennis and traveling.

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Featured Articles

742 articles by Lindsey O’Donnell-Welch

SEC: SIM Swapping Attack Led to Twitter Account Compromise

New revelations from the investigation into the SEC's Twitter account compromise reveal that it stemmed from a SIM swapping attack and that MFA had been disabled on the account.

Identity

CISA Issues Emergency Directive For Ivanti Flaws, Warns of ‘Widespread Exploitation’

CISA said its new emergency directive for Ivanti zero-days is “based on widespread exploitation of vulnerabilities by multiple threat actors."

CISA, Ivanti

Exploitation of Recently Patched VMware Bug Started in 2021

Threat actors exploited a critical-severity VMware flaw for almost two years before patches were released in October.

Exploit, Vulnerability

Decipher Podcast: Source Code 1/19

Welcome back to Source Code, Decipher's weekly news wrap podcast with input from our sources.

Source Code, Podcast

Citrix Discloses Actively Exploited NetScaler ADC and Gateway Flaws

Flaws in Citrix NetScaler and ADC Gateway have historically been targeted by threat actors, though researchers don't believe the impact of these two bugs to match that of CitrixBleed.

Zero Day, Citrix, Citrix Netscaler