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. PCI and payments: Crypto-agility. New breaches: Wearable aggregator megabreach, Epik, Walgreens, Indonesian Intelligence Agency, multiple healthcare. New Ransomware: Threats. Follow-ups & Fall-out. Privacy: Re-identification, FTC privacy bureau. Laws & Regs: Canada: Copyright. US: Crypto-exchanges, Facebook, location warrants. World: GDPR, Assistance requests. Standards: NIST Machine Learning. Defense: Passwordless, OpenSSLv3, Android. Zoom, Design, Trolls, Kali. Vulnerabilities, Zerodays: Apple, Windows, Chrome, Azure OMIGOD, IBM. Databases, Citrix, Windows EOL, WSL, Laserfiche Ad Porn, WordPress, Drupal, WooCommerce, Travis CI, SSID stripping, Apple Cloudkit, SpookJS, RSA variant. Cybercrime: What's exploited, Multiple zerodays, Open redirects. Crime: Other Risks: Ethics, DNS, moderation, WFH, facial fakes. Health, Safety & Environment: Covid-19: Spread, Curves, Waves, and Variants; Response; Treatments; Immunity; Impact; Covid Ugly; And more.
News and announcements relating to Payment Security, PCI, Card Brands, Payments, Payment Malware and Fraud, and Payment Related Compliance.
New PCI Documents:
Why Organizations Need to Become Crypto-Agile and What that Means https://controlgap.com/blog/Cryptographic-Agility
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.
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.
Zero-day news:
News covering active trends, alerts, events.
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:
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,...