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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

703 articles by Lindsey O’Donnell-Welch

Mozilla Fixes Two Firefox Flaws Under Attack

Two critical Firefox use-after-free zero-day vulnerabilities have been fixed.

Firefox, Mozila, Vulnerability

Decipher Podcast: Source Code 3/4

This week's Source Code podcast by Decipher takes a look behind the scenes at top news with input from our sources.

Source Code, Podcast

Healthcare Sector Grapples With Legacy Devices, Patching Woes

Healthcare providers, clinics and hospitals face daunting challenges in how they protect against cyberattacks. But security experts are seeing improvement.

Healthcare Security

New DDoS Attack Vector Abuses Content Filtering Systems

Attackers abused a 'broken TCP implementation' in middleboxes to launch a 'small number' of DDoS attacks against organizations in recent weeks.

Ddos

Revamped Anchor Malware Targets Windows Systems

Researchers believe that attackers behind the Anchor malware, the Trickbot gang, have ceased Trickbot operations are instead focusing on deploying stealthier versions of other malware families.

Malware, Windows, Trickbot