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This Week's [in]Security - Issue 238 | insecurity | Control Gap

Written by CG Blogger | Oct 25, 2021 2:07:00 AM

Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. PCI and payments: PCI & Ransomware, 3DS RFCs, PCI Halloween, AI shoulder surfing, Rapid Dispute, V-cards, UP Express. New breaches: Argentina!, CoinMarketCap, Durham police. New Ransomware: New Ransomware, Challenges, Revil (Strikeback), BlackMatter. Follow-ups & Fall-out. Privacy: ISPs, Alexa, Lunch Money. Laws & Regs - Canada, Online Harms. US: Export restrictions, Sanctions & Crypto, Notifications, Supplychains, Missouri, Facebook, World: GDPR bypass. Standards: NIST KDF, HTTPA. Defense: Detection, Blackhat, L0PHTcrack, Win11. Vulnerabilities, Zerodays: Apple. Other Vulnerabilities: Chrome, CVEs, MFA, Chinese hacking contest, Kerberos, DCOM, Gummy Browser attack, Tesla, Health Apps. Cybercrime: Trends: Fake pentest contracts, more fakes, Discord, Microsoft, Buggy malware, Obfuscation, NPM JavaScript, Youtube. Nation States. Crime: $35M deepfake heist, no honor among thieves, jail. Other Risks: IoT, third-parties, economic supply-chains, bias, Health, Safety & Environment. Covid-19: Spread, Curves, Waves, and Variants; Response; Treatments; Immunity; Covid Ugly; Covid Compliance. And more.

PCI Compliance and Payments

News and announcements relating to Payment Security, PCI, Card Brands, Payments, Payment Malware and Fraud, and Payment Related Compliance.

Breaches / Ransomware / Leaks

Covering breaches, leaks, data exposures, ransomware (as potential breach), and their fallout.

Privacy

Articles about privacy related news, risks, and trends.

Laws, Regulations, Platforms, Standards, and Public Policy

News about laws, regulations, platform rules, and standards affecting security, privacy, technology, and public interest.

Defense / Techniques / Solutions

Covering developments and opportunities that may help improve security.

Bugs / Design Flaws / Vulnerabilities / Research

Articles about newly discovered vulnerabilities and research.

Hacking / Malware / Cybercrime / Exploitation

News covering active trends, alerts, events.

Other Security / Risk

Articles covering other types of risks.

COVID-19 updates.

COVID related articles. We have been following coronavirus risks since https://controlgap.com/blog/this-weeks-insecurity-issue-147.

Off-Topic / Science & Tech / Lighter Side

A variety of scientific, technical, historical, and more light-hearted news.