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. Texas Disaster. News/Link Taxing. More SolarWinds. SLC Update. PINs vs. Passwords. Skimmers. New breaches: CRA lockout. New Ransomware. Location. Tracker Pixels. NIST. Zero-Day. Routers. OpenSSL. Big Mac Attack. Trends. Buy-to-infect. Scams & Fraud. Nation States. Arrests, etc. AI. Misinformation. CRISPR. Quantum Fail. Serial Killers. Health, Safety & Environment. H5N8. Covid-19: Spread, Curves, Spikes, Waves, & reinfections. New Variants. Impact. Immunity, Vaccines, and Vaccination. Disinformation. The Good, Bad, and Ugly (Behaviour). And more.
Texas Disaster, Australia vs. Social Media, More on the SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack:
One bad storm crippled Texas shutting down electricity, water, gas, and more:
Australia vs. Facebook:
More on the SolarWinds fallout:
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.
Tracker Pixels (Hasn't this been a problem for a long-time):
News about laws, regulations, platform rules, and standards affecting security, privacy, technology, and public interest.
Canada:
US:
World:
Standards News:
Covering developments and opportunities that may help improve security.
Articles about newly discovered vulnerabilities and research.
News covering active trends, alerts, events.
The Big Mac Attack:
Trends, Alerts, and Events:
Scams and Fraud in the news:
Nation State Actors:
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:
New Variants:
Guidance, Response, and Recovery:
Impact:
Treatments, Testing, Triage, Trials, and things we Learned:
Immunity, Vaccines, and Vaccination:
Disinformation:
More of the good, the bad, and the ugly:
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,...