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This Week’s [in]Security – Issue 81

This Week’s [in]Security – Issue 81

Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. This week: a £120K USB stick, Google+ shuts down after breach, a very rare public admission of non-compliance with PCI, Facebook's troubles continue, outlawing weak passwords, controversial and conflicting stories about Chinese spy chips,  shaming bad IoT, distrusting AIs, and creepy elevators.

Now here's this week’s selection of news, opinions, and research. Quickly skim annotated links organized by topic: compliance and payment security, breaches, regulation, bugs, privacy, hacking/malware, other security & risk, and more. We hope you enjoy and find them useful.

PCI Compliance and Payments

Breaches / Leaks

Laws & Regulations / Standards

Privacy

Bugs / Design Flaws / Vulnerabilities / Defense

Hacking / Malware / Cybercrime / Offense

Other Security / Risk

Off-Topic / Science & Tech / Lighter Side

The Art of Reading a PCI Attestation of Compliance (AoC)

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...

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Control Gap Vulnerability Roundup: March 4th to March 10th

Control Gap Vulnerability Roundup: March 4th to March 10th

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,...

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Control Gap Vulnerability Roundup: February 25th to March 3rd

Control Gap Vulnerability Roundup: February 25th to March 3rd

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,...

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