Control Gap Vulnerability Roundup: August 6th to August 12th
This week saw the publication of 576 new CVE IDs. Of those, 80 have not yet been assigned official CVSS scores, however, of the ones that were,...
Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. Fallout from US Unrest. Covid-19: Spread & Curve. Lockdown, Reopening, & The New Normal. More of the Good, Bad, and Ugly. Magecart. Payment fraud and reserves. Key mismanagement. COVID related breaches. Contact tracing app problems. Facial recognition. Blaming users. Forensics survey. Fighting deepfakes. Lamphone eavesdropping attack. Lifespan of a Vulnerability. Bad GnuTLS bug. Intel side-channels. Magneto. IoT. Facebook Tails Exploit. Massive hacker for hire operation. Ransomware's hidden costs. Ransomware is fast. Root Certificate expiry will brick smart appliances. Zoom censorship. AI arms race simulations. And more.
The COVID related articles here fit together. Other COVID articles will appear under our normal section headings like regulations, privacy, breaches, and other risks. We have been following coronavirus risks since https://controlgap.com/blog/this-weeks-insecurity-issue-147.
Fallout from US Unrest:
The spread and the curve:
Lockdown, reopening, and The New Normal:
Treatments, Testing, Triage, and Trials, and things we learned:
Guidance, Response and Recovery:
Behaviour - the good, the bad, and the ugly:
Masks, anti-maskers, and distancing:
News and announcements relating to Payment Security, PCI, Card Brands, Payments, Payment Malware and Fraud.
Covering breaches, leaks, data exposures, ransomware (as potential breach), and their fallout.
COVID related breaches - unemployment, stimulus, apps:
Articles about privacy related news, risks, and trends.
COVID-19 Contact tracing and surveillance:
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.
COVID-19 Other risks and impact:
A variety of scientific, technical, historical, and more light-hearted news.
This week saw the publication of 576 new CVE IDs. Of those, 80 have not yet been assigned official CVSS scores, however, of the ones that were,...
Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. PCI FAQs. Crypto-research: the PQC demo derby, more SIDH attacks. New breaches: Twillo, Cisco, Shanghai, ipay88,...
This week saw the publication of 449 new CVE IDs. Of those, 315 have not yet been assigned official CVSS scores, however, of the ones that were,...