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...
Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. SolarWinds. Riot fallout. Dumps. Bans. Magecart. Carding. New breaches: The UN. Socialarks. Ubiquiti. Capcom. Healthcare. SmartPhones. WhatsApp & Facebook. Signal. Facial Recognition & Analysis. More Brexit. NIST. Tools. Dynamic PII? Disinformation. MFA Cloning. CSV Injection. Wild. MacOS. DoH Resolvers. Patch Tuesday. Adobe. WordPress. Trends. MFA Bypass. ScAAS? 0-Day. Nation States. Arrests, etc. CitizenLab. Rogue AI. Election Security. Congo TLD. Exodus? Bitcoin Passwords. Health, Safety & Environment. Covid-19: Spread, Curves, Spikes, Waves, & reinfections. New Variants. Impact. Immunity, Vaccines, and Vaccination. Disinformation. 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 5:
Politics aside, more on the long term fallout from the US Capitol Riots, issues like platform liability, free speech, domestic terrorism, etc.:
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:
Follow-ups and fall-out:
Articles about privacy related news, risks, and trends.
WhatsApp, Facebook, and the rush to Signal:
Facial Recognition & Analysis:
News about laws, regulations, and standards affecting security, privacy, technology, and public interest.
Canada:
US:
World:
New NIST:
Covering developments and opportunities that may help improve security.
Articles about newly discovered vulnerabilities and research.
Introducing the Project Zero In-the-Wild Series https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/01/introducing-in-wild-series.html
News covering active trends, alerts, events.
Trends, Alerts, and Events (other than SolarWinds):
Nation State Actors:
Crime:
Articles covering other types of risks.
Exodus:
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:
Disinformation:
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.
On May 3rd Google introduced several new top-level domains (TLDs), including the .zip TLD which has generated warnings from the cybersecurity...
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,...
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,...