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. Card Production, Data Removal, Digesting PCI, Issuers. Fingerprint cards. New breaches: Saudi Aramco, Mexican voters, S3 service provider bucket, Denials and False breaches. New Ransomware: trains, suppliers, Major outages: Akamai. Follow-ups & Fall-out: Named and Shamed, Insurance restrictions, Audi, Kaseya, Privacy: Data brokers. Laws & Regs: Right to be Forgotten. Pipelines, Right-to-repair, Web-scraping. India's platforms, EU Crypto. Cybersecurity Career Awareness, AES Review, Lightweight Crypto Final, NIST. Defense: Backups, browsers, trackers, Tools, Russia's Firewall. Vulnerabilities: Print Drivers, SeriousSAM/HiveNightmare, PetitPotam, Linux "Sequoia", Telegram. Cybercrime: Pegasus Spyware, Trends: NPM Password Thief, MosaicLoader, Discord, Nation States: China, Crime. Homoglyphs, DNA, Swatter, Twitter, flattened-miners, ID Theft Scumbags. Other Risks: AI, Disinformation for Hire, Cloud ICS, Expired Domains, MLB Sign stealing. Health, Safety & Environment. Covid-19: Spread, Curves, Waves, and Variants; Response; Treatments; Immunity; Covid Ugly; Covid Compliance. And more.
News and announcements relating to Payment Security, PCI, Card Brands, Payments, Payment Malware and Fraud, and Payment Related Compliance.
Covering breaches, leaks, data exposures, ransomware (as potential breach), and their fallout.
New Breaches:
New Ransomware and "Incidents":
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Articles about privacy related news, risks, and trends.
News about laws, regulations, platform rules, and standards affecting security, privacy, technology, and public interest.
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Covering developments and opportunities that may help improve security.
Articles about newly discovered vulnerabilities and research.
News covering active trends, alerts, events.
The NSO Group's Pegasus Spyware for hire comes under the spotlight after a breach revealing their targets:
Trends, Alerts, and Events (other than major breaches):
Nation State Actors:
Crime & Arrests, etc.:
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, reinfection, and variant strains:
Guidance, Response, and Recovery:
Treatments, Testing, Triage, Trials, and things we Learned:
Immunity and Vaccinations:
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.
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,...