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This Week's [in]Security - Issue 208

This Week's [in]Security - Issue 208

Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. PCI Updates: PTS FAQ, PIN 3.1, QSA Program. Big-Hacks: Exchange, SolarWinds, F5, Accellion. New breaches: New Ransomware: Follow-ups & Fall-out: Amazon sued. Privacy: Facial Recognition. Laws & Regs: Facebook sued, Section 230, Breach Disclosures, Location Tracking Guidelines, NIST. Defense: Isolate IoT, Tools, Browsers. Vulnerabilities: Android, iOS ZeroDay, Apple iOS. ColdFusion, NetMask code, Android, Wordpress. Arresting the messenger? Cybercrime: Trends. Account Takeovers. Other Risks: Disinformation, IoT Weapons, PII a Risk, Autopilot, Grid, Shipping, More NFTs, Win95, Health, Safety & Environment. Covid-19: Spread, Curves, Waves, and Variants. Immunity, Vaccines, and Vaccination. The Good, Bad, and Ugly (Behaviour). And more.

PCI Compliance and Payments

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

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.

This Week's [in]Security - Issue 201

This Week's [in]Security - Issue 201

Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. Magecart. New breaches: New Ransomware. Spotify. NIST. Attack the AI. Lego? Free book. Patching! Open Source....

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This Week's [in]Security - Issue 206

This Week's [in]Security - Issue 206

Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. PCI Updates. PIN v3.1. PIN Block Format 4 Deprecated. Exchange server mass-exploitation. Big F5 has big CVE's....

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This Week's [in]Security - Issue 207

This Week's [in]Security - Issue 207

Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. Magecart exfiltration. More FPE Weakness. Big-Hacks: Exchange Hack. F5 Attacks. SolarWinds. New breaches:...

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