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 SSF vs PA-DSS, Scoping Cloud, Cooperation, PCI Back to Basics Series, MageCart, Free Card Dump, No stripes. Big-Hacks: T-Mobile. New breaches: Accenture, Salesforce customers, Ford. New Ransomware. Follow-ups & Fall-out. Privacy: PGPP, Uber Surveillance, Politicians. Laws & Regs. Defense: Webinars, HTTPS first, Wiping Data, Passwordless Git, Fuzzing. Vulnerabilities: Windows, MS-ECC-spoofing, IoT non-randomness, Magento, 5G, Voting Machines, DNS. Cybercrime: Trends, Losses, Anti-AML, Office, Exchange, Flytrap, WordPress, Crypto heist? Nation States. Other Risks: Apple's Photo Scanning, Insiders, Disinformation, Bias, English to Code. Health, Safety & Environment: Covid election, Recalls, Wildfires, Heat, EV's. Covid-19: Spread, Curves, Waves, and Variants; Response; Treatments; Immunity; Covid Ugly. And more.
News and announcements relating to Payment Security, PCI, Card Brands, Payments, Payment Malware and Fraud, and Payment Related Compliance.
Back-to-Basics Series:
Covering breaches, leaks, data exposures, ransomware (as potential breach), and their fallout.
Major incidents:
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.
Canada:
US:
World:
Covering developments and opportunities that may help improve security.
Upcoming Webinars, Virtual Events, and other training related:
Articles about newly discovered vulnerabilities and research.
News covering active trends, alerts, events.
Trends, Alerts, and Events (other than major breaches):
The $610M Crypto heist turned bug bounty:
Nation State Actors:
Articles covering other types of risks.
Apple's Photo Scanning Controversy continues:
Why No HTTPS? The 2021 Version https://www.troyhunt.com/why-no-https-the-2021-version/
‘Likes' and ‘shares' teach people to express more outrage online https://scienmag.com/likes-and-shares-teach-people-to-express-more-outrage-online/
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:
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,...