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.