This Week's [in]Security - Issue 250

16 Jan 2022.

Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. PCI and payments: PCI updates: Card Production. Carders. Training. New breaches, New Ransomware: bankrupcy, jail, DDoS. Major outages, Follow-ups & Fall-out: Lawyers vs Insurance, Accellion, Maryland. Privacy: Apple Private Relay. Laws & Regs - Canada: location data. US: DMCA, Carrier breach rules, DeFi, Facebook anti-trust, Celebrities sued. World: Europol, GDPR & Tech, China & tech. Standards: NIST drafts, Randomness. Defense: Protecting Open Source, Blocking stingray, ICS Security, C-Level, CSSLP. Vulnerabilities, Zerodays. Other Vulnerabilities: WordPress, React & NPM, MacOS, Defender, Patching: CISA must patch list, Adobe, AWS, Cisco. WordPress, L2TP. cryptography, Cybercrime: Trends: Self-inflicted, Multi-OS backdoor, Beware USB sticks. Nation States: Spyware for hire, Russia v Ukraine. Crime & Enforcement: Revil Arrests, Ukrainian arrests, Crypto theft. Other Risks: Great Resignation, QR fakes, Real war? Sowing division. Health, Safety & Environment: Tsunami, Tesla, Sharks, Wild-fires. Covid-19: Spread, Curves, Waves, and Variants; Response; Treatments; Immunity; Learned; Innovation 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.