This Week’s [in]Security – Issue 163 | insecurity | Control Gap
Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. Trending: Coronavirus: Visualizing the spread. Infection and governments. Lockdown and reopening. Weird tech. Pool-noodle-hats. Vaccines, anti-bodies, treatments. More good, bad, and ugly. Masks, anti-maskers, and distancing. Confused AIs. PCI updated FAQs. The Unattributable 23M record breach. Celebrity law firm. 2nd grader pwns school board. More ransomware information sales. More contact tracing. Huawei export restrictions. Windows packet sniffer. Win-DoHs. Defcon & Blackhat cancelled. Thunderspy. Apples XML trouble. Ancient Windows bug. Attacking smart factories. Crypto-agility. Rash of supercomputer hacks. Exfiltrating over air gaps. New electronic warfare platform. Conspiracy theories. Election insecurity. And more.
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