This Week’s [in]Security – Issue 38 | insecurity | Control Gap
Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. We’ve collected and grouped together a selection of this...
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Mar 8, 2020 12:00:00 AM
Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. Trending: Corona virus updates - individual guidance, spread, responses, security. PCI and COVID19. PCI SPOC update RFC. New breach guidance. Breach news on planes, trains, electric automobiles, spacecraft, phones, schools, and cruise lines. 200M property records. 25GB security data. PEI hit by breach-ware. Failure to test leads to breach. Geofence suspect. Facial recognition. Student privacy. Ex-marketer privacy advocate. Copyright vs GDPR. Cyber-law casebook. NIST updates. Software ingredients lists. CPU Vulnerabilities. Password reuse and credential stuffing. Failure to patch. The big Let's Encrypt revoke. Quantum enhanced weakness. SIM swapping threat. 1.2M Microsoft enterprise non-MFA accounts compromised. Homographs: tricky lookalike Domain Names. New ransomware. Election security. Crypto AG update. Mumps. Security dilemmas. 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.
This special section is dedicated to emerging issues and trending stories that cross multiple of our regular news categories.
Corona virus updates - spread, guidance, response:
News and announcements relating to Payment Security, PCI, Card Brands, Payments, Payment Malware and Fraud.
Covering breaches, leaks, data exposures, ransomware (as potential breach), 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.
Longstanding Intel and AMD firmware vulnerabilities:
News covering active trends and events.
Articles covering other types of risks.
A variety of scientific, technical, historical, and more light-hearted news.
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Dec 18, 2017 12:00:00 AM
Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. We’ve collected and grouped together a selection of this...
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Feb 9, 2020 10:07:00 PM
Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. New trending stories section with updates on Coronovirus,...
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Jul 25, 2021 12:00:00 AM
Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. Card Production, Data Removal, Digesting PCI, Issuers....