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Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. PCI and payments: Participating brands FAQ, and 8 updates. Magecart/skimmers, Brazil, Square. New breaches: Panasonic, Planned Parenthood. New Ransomware: Critical Infrastructure, Rideau Hall. Major outages, Follow-ups & Fall-out: Gravatar HIPB. Privacy: De-anonymization. Laws & Regs - Canada: health data, Huawei. US: FBI access, TSA, SEC, Biometrics. World: Product Security, Algorithm Transparency. Standards: NIST IoT, CISA mobile. Defense: Spam calls, AI understanding, Facial fuzz, attack maps, DRP, Old tech, Faraday cages. Vulnerabilities, Zerodays: Windows. Other Vulnerabilities: Printers, Routers, NSS Crypto, XS-Leaks, Passwords, zoom, Azure Sphere, Cloud Honeypot, CISA Hitachi & Zoho, Verizon. Cryptography HKDFs, PQC signatures & performance, Quantum Computing. Cybercrime: Trends, NABs, Trojans, AT&T, WRITE, Excel Addins. Nation States: diplomats, air-gaps, fake recruiters. Crime & Enforcement. Other Risks: Cyber-insurance exclusions, long game, China, misinformation, Meta/FB, amplification, shopping bots, Edge, Food, Hype? Health, Safety & Environment. Covid-19: Spread, Curves, Waves, and Variants; Response; Immunity; Learned; And more.

Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. PCI and payments: PAX/WorldPay/FBI investigation, PCI updates, Mobile Wallets. Digital & Crypto. New breaches: Hotels, Locations, emails, Portpass, NRA. New Ransomware: Free Decryptors, key reuse, A/D, Conti, BlackMatter, SEO poisoning, REvil, TTC, Blue Shield. Major outages, Follow-ups & Fall-out. Privacy: smartglasses. Laws & Regs - Canada, US: Cell phone locations, Cybersecurity disclosures, Right to repair, Ransomware payoffs, National Security bans, Social Media hearings. World: Proton Mail, GDPR evasion, EU DSA, Online Harms. Standards: NSA/CISA 5G & Cloud. Security baseline. NVD API, NIST Supply Chains, Trusted cloud, Defense: Digital life, Attack Surface, Teams, SolarWinds, Twitter MFA, AWS. Vulnerabilities, Zerodays: Windows LPE, Chrome. Shrootless, Other Vulnerabilities: Hardware, Apache, Apple, Wordpress, XP's still around, Fuji, WinRaR, Trojan Source, War-driving. Cybercrime: Trends: NPM, Nation States. Crime. Other Risks: 2022, economy, Meta7FB, time. Health, Safety & Environment. Covid-19: Spread, Curves, Waves, and Variants; Response; Immunity; Impact; Covid Ugly; And more.

Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. PCI and payments: Remote Assessment, PA-DSS/SSF transition. CPE Maintenance, P2PE v3.1, PIN Program, Technical FAQ, DSS FAQ, Neiman Marcus card breach, ApplePay/Visa Express Travel vulnerability. New breaches: Meet the Pandora Papers (Remember the Panama Papers?) , Linkedin Scrape (126M), Barclays, Portpass & Sask QR vaccine apps, GrupoGSS. Mult-party breach impact, New Ransomware: Human-operated ransomware. Follow-ups & Fall-out: Fatal ransomware, Clubhouse, Facebook data collection (3.8B), Dallas Police, Epik. Privacy: android location tracking, pandemic privacy. Laws & Regs: Canada: vaccine passports. US: 4th amendment. World: Russia. Standards: NIST updates, drafts, papers, news. Defense: Webinars, Webinars. CISA. Tools, email, DMARC, TLS 1.3, Tokenization vs. Encryption, Tracking crypto, scambaiting. Vulnerabilities, Zerodays: Other Vulnerabilities: 5G apps, after patching, OWASP 2021, AirTags, Azure, MS MFA, Elastic Stack API, Autodiscover, vCenter. University Wi-Fi, Bitcoin ATMs, Cybercrime: Trends: OTP bots, Fake Pegasus defense, GriftHorse SMS fraud, FinSpy, FoggyWeb. Nation States. Crime: Other Risks: Domain Names, Outsourced, Misinformation, Lying AI, Bulletproof TLS, Health, Safety & Environment. Covid-19: Spread, Curves, Waves, and Variants; Response; Treatments; Immunity; Impact; Covid Ugly; And more.

Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. PCI and payments: Remote assessments, magecart. New breaches: Thai visitors, Event Builder, Exchange. New Ransomware: Alert, Exabyte. Major outages: voip.ms, Trello. Follow-ups & Fall-out: Revil FBI Sting & backdoor cheat, Epik. Privacy: Amazon, Ant, creepy? QR, ewwww! Laws & Regs: Canada: US: Infrastructure, Facebook, Warrants. World: China bans crypto, Huawei, USB-C. Standards: CISA IPv6, NIST drafts. Defense: SSNs, AppSec, Quad, Ransomware action, Medical IoT, passwordless, tools, Cyber-insurance, Autodiscover, Bug bounties. Vulnerabilities, Zerodays: record zerodays, IoT, IoS, MacOS. Chrome. Other Vulnerabilities: OWASP update, API credentials, Ryzen, hack a mainframe demo, OpenOffice, Cisco, smartphones, Nagios, VMware. SonicWall, Routers, ROT13-NG. Cybercrime: Trends: Nation States. Crime: Mafia, DeFi, undone. Other Risks: Quantum Risk, Health, Safety & Environment. Covid-19: Spread, Curves, Waves, and Variants; Response; Immunity; Impact; Covid Ugly; And more.

Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. PCI and payments: Back-to-Basics. Dotty's & NRS. New breaches: Fortinet, UN, Tesla, Israel, Morocco, Singapore, McDonalds. New Ransomware: ReVil, Afghanistan, Russia, Follow-ups & Fall-out. Espionage vs. breach? Privacy: WhatsApp, smart-dumb-glasses, Ear-buds. Laws & Regs: Canada: US: Epic v. Apple, Ransomware disclosure. World: Crypto-wars. Standards: NIST. Defense: Webinars, Webinars. Cooperation, quantum RNG. Vulnerabilities: MSHTML zero day, OWASP #1 in 2021, Node JS, Netgear. Cybercrime: Trends: Canada, Pegasus. Nation States. Crime: Other Risks: Connected-to Service Providers, Facebook, Cables, Proton Mail controversy, Elections, IPv6, Health, Safety & Environment: CO2 capture, Batteries, Fusion, Covid-19: Spread, Curves, Waves, and Variants; Response; Treatments; Immunity; Covid Ugly; Covid Compliance. And more.

Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. SSF faqs, firewalls, Storing CVV. New breaches: Microsoft Power Apps: IndiaMart, Imavex. New Ransomware: Ragnarok shutdown, FBI alerts. Major outages: Record DDoS, TSYS, OneDrive. Follow-ups & Fall-out: T-Mobile, Poly, SubaGames, Eatigo. Privacy: WFH surveillance. Laws & Regs: Canada: Online harms. US: non-competes. CSP troll, Chinese Tech. Standards: NIST. Defense: Webinars, Webinars. Supply-chain. Vulnerabilities: Unitrends zero-day, Medical IoT, Windows 10, F5 BIG-IP, SSL VPNs, OpenSSL, SNI, Cosmos DB, Confluence, Glowworm. Cybercrime: Trends: Nation States. Crime. Other Risks: Tech-hype, Voting Systems, Fooling AI. Health, Safety & Environment: Zoom fatigue. Covid-19: Spread, Curves, Waves, and Variants; Response; Treatments; Immunity; Impact; Covid Compliance. And more.

Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. Big-Hacks: T-Mobile. New breaches: Terrorist Watchlist, US census, Baby monitors and cams, Chase, HVAC as a vector, New Ransomware: State Department, Brazil. Major outages: Pakistan. Follow-ups & Fall-out: Colonial, Blackbaud, Pearson. Privacy: FB. Laws & Regs: Canada: Copyright. US: LEA data loss, Tesla. Standards: NIST CMVP. Defense: Hiring, ZeroTrust,, Tools. Vulnerabilities: more PrintNightmare, Apple photos, STARTTLS, Chrome, Cisco, Fortinet, LinkedIn Jobs, Wordpress, Realtek IoT Wi-Fi, Blackberry, DDoS. Cybercrime: Irony, Trends: HolesWarm. Phishing costs, QR malware, Nation States. Crime. Other Risks: Edge, IoT, Trolley problem, Windows 11, facial recognition. China, stunting. Health, Safety & Environment: Zombies, Haiti, EV fires, space junk, Whalesafe, Batteries. Covid-19: Spread, Curves, Waves, and Variants; Response; Immunity; Covid Ugly; And more.

Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. Card Production, Data Removal, Digesting PCI, Issuers. Fingerprint cards. New breaches: Saudi Aramco, Mexican voters, S3 service provider bucket, Denials and False breaches. New Ransomware: trains, suppliers, Major outages: Akamai. Follow-ups & Fall-out: Named and Shamed, Insurance restrictions, Audi, Kaseya, Privacy: Data brokers. Laws & Regs: Right to be Forgotten. Pipelines, Right-to-repair, Web-scraping. India's platforms, EU Crypto. Cybersecurity Career Awareness, AES Review, Lightweight Crypto Final, NIST. Defense: Backups, browsers, trackers, Tools, Russia's Firewall. Vulnerabilities: Print Drivers, SeriousSAM/HiveNightmare, PetitPotam, Linux "Sequoia", Telegram. Cybercrime: Pegasus Spyware, Trends: NPM Password Thief, MosaicLoader, Discord, Nation States: China, Crime. Homoglyphs, DNA, Swatter, Twitter, flattened-miners, ID Theft Scumbags. Other Risks: AI, Disinformation for Hire, Cloud ICS, Expired Domains, MLB Sign stealing. Health, Safety & Environment. Covid-19: Spread, Curves, Waves, and Variants; Response; Treatments; Immunity; Covid Ugly; Covid Compliance. And more.

Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. DSSv4 timelines. Magecart. New breaches: CVS, Carnival Cruises, Wegmans. New Ransomware: G7 vs. Russia, Bitcoin?, ICS Software, Nukes, source released. Major outages: Puerto Rico, Follow-ups & Fall-out: Avaddon quits, 5B records, Lessons learned, US fines. Privacy: Trusting VPN providers, Pseudonymity, Phones, Cartoon App. Laws & Regs - Canada: Copyright. US: Web Scraping, DPA, Facial recognition, Section 230, Massachusetts and Google app installation. The world: Crypto-wars, USA-EU, Compelling Passwords, Apple-EU. Standards: NIST & NSA. Defense: MFA list, Supply chain, ScriptWatch, Free book. Vulnerabilities: Chrome & Apple ZD, Utility Sector, Cisco, Linux, Defibrillators, Peleton. FPE weaker, 2G/GPRS backdoor. Cybercrime - Trends: Vigilante malware? PDFs, SEO poison, Google Docs, Fake cryptocurrency devices, Ransomware ops, Nation States. Crime. Other Risks: Undersea cables, email risks, BadBots, Win10 EOS, Mainframes. Health, Safety & Environment: Bio-labs, Makeup, Pollution, More mRNA, Smart meters, Tesla crashes, Extremism. Covid-19: Spread, Curves, Waves, and Variants. Response, Vaccine passports, Borders, Immunity, Delta & Gamma, Canada, Learned, Covid Ugly. And more.