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This Week's [in]Security - Issue 184

This Week's [in]Security - Issue 184

Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. DSS Evolution. Compliance drops. ATMs. Magecart. TR-31. New breaches: New Ransomware. Contact tracing. Backdoors. NIST. DST Forever. Risk based auth. Win7. SMS2FA. Anti-Virus. new ACAS. And Dumber. Trickbot Disruption. Media Bias. Disinformation. AI fallibility. Health, Safety & Environment. Covid-19: Spread, Curves, Spikes, Waves, & reinfections. Disinformation. And more.

PCI Compliance and Payments

News and announcements relating to Payment Security, PCI, Card Brands, Payments, Payment Malware and Fraud.

Breaches / Ransomware / Leaks

Covering breaches, leaks, data exposures, ransomware (as potential breach), and their fallout.

Privacy

Articles about privacy related news, risks, and trends.

Laws & Regulations / Standards

News about laws, regulations, and standards affecting security, privacy, technology, and public interest.

Defense / Techniques / Solutions

Covering developments and opportunities that may help improve security.

Bugs / Design Flaws / Vulnerabilities / Research

Articles about newly discovered vulnerabilities and research.

Hacking / Malware / Cybercrime / Exploitation

News covering active trends, alerts, events.

Other Security / Risk

Articles covering other types of risks.

COVID-19 updates.

COVID related articles. We have been following coronavirus risks since https://controlgap.com/blog/this-weeks-insecurity-issue-147.

Off-Topic / Science & Tech / Lighter Side

A variety of scientific, technical, historical, and more light-hearted news.

The New Google .zip TLD: Examining Potential Cybersecurity Risks

The New Google .zip TLD: Examining Potential Cybersecurity Risks

On May 3rd Google introduced several new top-level domains (TLDs), including the .zip TLD which has generated warnings from the cybersecurity...

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Control Gap Vulnerability Roundup: April 29th to May 5th

Control Gap Vulnerability Roundup: April 29th to May 5th

This week saw the publication of 294 new CVE IDs. Of those, 99 have not yet been assigned official CVSS scores, however, of the ones that were,...

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Control Gap Vulnerability Roundup: April 22nd to April 28th

Control Gap Vulnerability Roundup: April 22nd to April 28th

This week saw the publication of 501 new CVE IDs. Of those, 430 have not yet been assigned official CVSS scores, however, of the ones that were,...

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