This Week’s [in]Security – Issue 96
Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. This week: PCI Qualified PIN Assessor (QPA) program, FAQ updates, ElasticSearch db leaks 24M mortgage records...
Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. This week: Evolving PCI. Online skimming/Magecart. A 1B record breach and an 11 breach week. Target sues over breach. Privacy regulations in conflict? Healthcare grab. Password ruling. More pressure for crypto-backdoors. New defensive tools. Five years to patch. VNC, RDP, and IoT - oh my. Replying to phone scammers. Busting scammers. 100K fake e-comm sites. Design error. Not so-smart homes. Lots of ransomware. Bluetooth scanners as burglary tool. Spammy banks. Internet islands. And more.
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.
News and announcements relating to Payment Security, Payments, PCI, and Card Brands.
Covering breaches, leaks, data exposures, and their fallout.
Articles about privacy related news, risks, and trends.
News about laws, regulations, and standards affecting security, privacy, technology, and public interest.
Covering developments and opportunities that may help improve security.
Articles about newly discovered vulnerabilities and research.
News covering active trends and events.
Articles covering other types of risks.
A variety of scientific, technical, historical, and more light-hearted news.
Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. This week: PCI Qualified PIN Assessor (QPA) program, FAQ updates, ElasticSearch db leaks 24M mortgage records...
Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. This week: Big changes coming in PCI updates to DSS, P2PE PA-DSS/SSF. First PCI SPoC solutions. New Control Gap...
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Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. This week: PCI is quite, ATM and payment app crime, record £183M GDPR fine for BA, massive smart home vendor...