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Carbanak requires people, process and tech, but mostly people

The Carbanak malware was injected into the bank targets using sophisticated spear phishing emails. When employees clicked on the email attachments, they downloaded malware onto their computers. The malware used was completely undetectable by anti-malware programs. The malware took advantage of a zero-day exploit to install itself on users’ machines. It lurked for a long

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A Little Voucher Could Make a BIG Difference in the World of Cybersecurity

In my role as CEO of 2-sec, I have spoken to many different types of businesses over the last twelve months, mostly about how their organisations are woefully under protected against malware, phishing, social engineering and other hacking tools on the threat landscape. Many of these companies do understand how vulnerable they are to attempted

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Why is POODLE and SSL v3 a problem?

As I’m sure you already know, PCI DSS v3.1 introduces a single change to replace “SSL” with “strong cryptography” in section 4.x. Whilst it might be a single change in PCI DSS, it literally means hundreds of thousands of HTTPS web pages around the world need their underlying web servers reconfiguring to use strong encryption.

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We are proud to be leading sponsors of ISSA-UK in 2015

As you probably all know, I’ve always been extremely appreciative of my close professional connection with ISSA-UK. (Information Security Systems Association) This year, we are very proud to be leading sponsors of the UK Chapter of ISSA-UK. ISSA is the largest international, not-for-profit association specifically for information security professionals, and the ISSA-UK Chapter is the world’s most successful

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Espionage-as-a-service: Brewing up a new threat to UK small businesses.

There was new research from the Home Office led Cyber Streetwise programme last week. The latest poll shows that only 16% of small businesses in the UK said that improving their cyber-security was a “top priority” for 2015. 66% of businesses “don’t consider their businesses to be vulnerable” and more than three-quarters don’t understand the

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The Growth of Cyber Insurance – can your business survive without it?

There was an interesting bit of research reported recently by the SC UK Magazine. The independent Corporate Executive Programme (CEP) has recently carried out a study into US/UK companies and their attitudes towards cyber-insurance. The results are really thought-provoking. A quarter of all total respondents said that their company had had a “business impacting” cyber

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Blocking websites at work…is it essential to your company’s cyber security?

The torrent sharing site Piratebay rose again from the ashes of the internet this month. The site had been shut down in December after a raid at the Nacka station, a nuclear-proof data centre built into a mountain complex near Stockholm, which sounds very James Bond. On 31st January 2015, the site re-emerged, one day

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Use the Sony breach to plan for the worst – Tim Holman in ComputerWeekly.com

On hearing about the Sony hacking attack back in 2014, one of our 2-sec penetration testers speculated it would probably be an inside job – a recently fired ex-employee that knew all about the vulnerabilities in the Sony system, or maybe sensitive data being leaked and distributed from contract software developers. These types of breaches and

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PCI DSSv3.0…The Lowdown Conference

On Thursday 12th February 2-sec hosted an excellent conference on PCI DSSv3.0…The Lowdown in central London. Around 60 individuals registered and the conference was a lively and interactive affair. Thank you very much to David Froud and Tim Holman from 2-sec, Cameron Ross from Eckoh and Jeremy King, International Director for the PCI Security Standards

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The Cyber Sentinel

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