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. SolarWinds. Carders Shut. New breaches. New Ransomware. Contact tracing. Facial Recognition. NIST. APIs. Signal. Zero Days. DNS Poison. Quantum. Trends. Arrests, etc. Baloney Detection. Cheating. Deepfakes. Neurotech. Health, Safety & Environment. Covid-19: Spread, Curves, Spikes, Waves, & reinfections. Vaccine Updates. And more.
The SolarWinds Nation State Supply Chain Hack variously called Solar-Gate, Solorigate, (and yes even Breaking-Wind) dominates the headlines and has organizations scrambling to see just how bad it was. This is a major event and fast moving story with far reaching implications.
Who's Affected:
How and What Happened:
Mitigations and Reaction:
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.
New Breaches:
New Ransomware and "Incidents":
Follow-ups and fall-out:
Articles about privacy related news, risks, and trends.
COVID-19 Contact tracing:
Facial Recognition:
News about laws, regulations, and standards affecting security, privacy, technology, and public interest.
US:
New NIST:
Covering developments and opportunities that may help improve security.
Articles about newly discovered vulnerabilities and research.
Zero-Days:
News covering active trends, alerts, events.
Trends, Alerts, and Events (other than SolarWinds):
Crime:
Articles covering other types of risks.
Health, Safety & Environment:
COVID related articles. We have been following coronavirus risks since https://controlgap.com/blog/this-weeks-insecurity-issue-147.
The spread, curves, spikes, waves, and reinfection:
Guidance, Response and Recovery:
Treatments, Testing, Triage, Trials, and things we Learned:
Vaccine Updates:
Masks, anti-maskers, distancing, compliance, and repercussions:
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,...