Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. PCI Updates. PIN v3.1. PIN Block Format 4 Deprecated. Exchange server mass-exploitation. Big F5 has big CVE's. SolarWinds & Accellion. New breaches: More CRA account problems. Walmart. Massive Security Camera Breach....

Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. Texas Disaster. News/Link Taxing. More SolarWinds. SLC Update. PINs vs. Passwords. Skimmers. New breaches: CRA lockout. New Ransomware. Location. Tracker Pixels. NIST. Zero-Day. Routers. OpenSSL. Big Mac Attack....

PINs, Passwords, and PCI

What is the difference between Passwords and Passphrases, PINs, and other authentication factors under PCI DSS? Our team was recently asked for a second opinion on a scenario that seemed like a simple question. When we dug into...