In reading the changes to PCI (3.2), what’s obvious are the numerous mentions of updates for the Service Provider. PCI 3.2 changes are authored as best practices until 1/31/18 after which time they become a requirement. These edits to rules align with the growing industry move for cloud-based or shared computing-on-demand environments.

There’s been a lot of noise lately about Russia’s potential impact in the US electoral process in November. Regardless of political views, there does appear to be malicious spear phishing attacks perpetrated by the Russian civilian and military intelligence Services (RIS).

If you were trying to browse the web last Friday chances are you were disappointed with performance; I have two different IP links into my office, and was speed testing both to see why I couldn’t connect to several key websites. The answer was a massive DDoS, or distributed denial of service, that brought down a number of popular websites including Amazon, Twitter, and Spotify.