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. PCI Updates. PIN v3.1. PIN Block Format 4 Deprecated. Exchange server mass-exploitation. Big F5 has big CVE's. SolarWinds & Accellion. New breaches: More CRA account problems. Walmart. Massive Security Camera Breach. GitHub. Bad Blockchain. Healthcare. New Ransomware. Followups & Fall-out. No Undo! DarkNetWorth. Crypto-wars. Fuzzing. Zero-days. ZeroDays. GitGate!? Redaction Failure. IoT: Smartmeters. SAP. Research. New CSS tracking side- channel attack. Trends. SolarWinds. Nation States. Crime. AI. The EFF Follies. LastPass. Non-fungible tokens. Hackers. Disinformation. Health, Safety & Environment. Covid-19: Spread, Curves, Spikes, Waves, & reinfections. New Variants. Impact. Immunity, Vaccines, and Vaccination. And more.
News and announcements relating to Payment Security, PCI, Card Brands, Payments, Payment Malware and Fraud.
Updates from the PCI Council:
Other Payment News:
Covering breaches, leaks, data exposures, ransomware (as potential breach), and their fallout.
The story of the massive zero-day-exploitation of Microsoft Exchange Servers continues:
More on the serious crop of F5 vulnerabilities:
New Breaches:
New Ransomware and "Incidents":
Follow-ups and fall-out:
Articles about privacy related news, risks, and trends.
News about laws, regulations, platform rules, and standards affecting security, privacy, technology, and public interest.
Crypto-wars:
Canada:
US:
World:
Covering developments and opportunities that may help improve security.
Articles about newly discovered vulnerabilities and research.
ZeroDays:
Other Vulnerabilities:
Research:
News covering active trends, alerts, events.
Trends, Alerts, and Events:
Nation State Actors:
Crime & Arrests, etc.:
Articles covering other types of risks.
Disinformation:
Health, Safety & Environment:
Ecomonic Risks:
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:
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,...