PCI Compliance & Why You Need to be Compliant
Getting paid is just as important as PCI compliance. Businesses of all sizes rely on cash flow to effectively manage business operations. To ensure...
Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. This week: PCI more on Key Blocks and some case studies. Breeches: Hy-Vee, Choice Hotels, State Farm, dating apps. Followups on Capital One, Equifax, AMCA, and First America. What may be the first mega breach of biometric data. Privacy commissioner on what to do if breached. Regaining trust. Facebook had people listening in on messenger calls too. NIST and cyberbudgets for small companies. Facebook biometric lawsuit. DEFCON is done and there are lots of new vulnerabilities and defensive techniques. Cybersecurity as practiced by experts and regular people. Google phasing out android passwords. Protecting 100M Lines of code. Escape room recruiting. Instagram 'fake' buttons. A skimmer detector. Ancient and horrible Windows CTF vulnerability. Browsers dropping XSS protections. EV certs. No honor among thieves. Sonic-Attack. Vanity plate risks. Brexit shortages. Stopping mass shooters and more.
Now here's this week’s selection of news, opinions, and research. Quickly skim annotated links organized by topic: compliance and payment security, breaches, regulation, bugs, privacy, hacking/malware, other security & risk, and more. We hope you enjoy and find them useful.
News and announcements relating to Payment Security, Payments, PCI, and Card Brands.
New PCI DSS and ISA Case Studies Available:
Covering breaches, leaks, data exposures, and their fallout.
Articles about privacy related news, risks, and trends.
News about laws, regulations, and standards affecting security, privacy, technology, and public interest.
Covering developments and opportunities that may help improve security.
Articles about newly discovered vulnerabilities and research.
News covering active trends and events.
Articles covering other types of risks.
A variety of scientific, technical, historical, and more light-hearted news.
Getting paid is just as important as PCI compliance. Businesses of all sizes rely on cash flow to effectively manage business operations. To ensure...
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It is amazing to see how many organizations take things for granted in their environment. In the video below, you can see a skimmer device installed...
Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. PCI and payments: Skimmers. Payments: New breaches: Anonymous, DeFi, Ikea. New Ransomware, Major outages,...