The Art of Reading a PCI Attestation of Compliance (AoC)
PCI Attestations of Compliance (AoCs) provide organizations with a tool that helps with the all-important aspects of third-party due diligence. Yet...
Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. SolarWinds. Riot fallout. New PCI FAQs. SPoC Unsupported O/S RFC. New breaches. New Ransomware. Mining AI. WhatsApp & Facebook. Telegram. Old SSL/TLS. Selfies vs. Fraud. Browsers. Android. reCAPTCHA. Titan. Fortinet WAF. Zend Framework. Nvidia. The Great Suspender. Trends. Nation States. Arrests, etc. Bulletproof TLS. WiFi6. Bad Citations. EC-RAM. Outages. Refund(of sorts) AI. Health, Safety & Environment. Covid-19: Spread, Curves, Spikes, Waves, & reinfections. New Variants. Impact. Immunity, Vaccines, and Vaccination. The Good, Bad, and Ugly (Behaviour). And more.
More on SolarWinds Supply Chain Hack and the fallout from the Capitol Hill riot:
Solar-gate week 4:
Politics aside, the fallout from the US Capitol Riots will likely spawn long term and wide ranging questions about platform liability, free speech, what is domestic terrorism, and much much more:
News and announcements relating to Payment Security, PCI, Card Brands, Payments, Payment Malware and Fraud.
New FAQs:
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.
News about laws, regulations, and standards affecting security, privacy, technology, and public interest.
Canada:
US:
World:
Covering developments and opportunities that may help improve security.
Articles about newly discovered vulnerabilities and research.
News covering active trends, alerts, events.
Trends, Alerts, and Events (other than SolarWinds):
Nation State Actors:
Crime:
Articles covering other types of risks.
AI:
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:
New Variants:
Impact:
Guidance, Response, and Recovery:
Treatments, Testing, Triage, Trials, and things we Learned:
Immunity, Vaccines, and Vaccination:
More of the good, the bad, and the ugly:
There's a been a rash of leaders travelling during the pandemic resulting in public pressure. We note that not all cases are equally bad
Masks, anti-maskers, distancing, compliance, and repercussions:
A variety of scientific, technical, historical, and more light-hearted news.
PCI Attestations of Compliance (AoCs) provide organizations with a tool that helps with the all-important aspects of third-party due diligence. Yet...
This week saw the publication of 493 new CVE IDs. Of those, 58 have not yet been assigned official CVSS scores, however, of the ones that were,...
This week saw the publication of 442 new CVE IDs. Of those, 258 have not yet been assigned official CVSS scores, however, of the ones that were,...