Certain parts of the internet were crawling with panic last Thursday when it was reported that the Tor – a search engine, had been hacked by the FBI and they had taken down the Silk Road 2.0 website. They had also made a number of arrests, including six people from Liverpool, Lincolnshire, Cleethorpes and Wales. What
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A new survey from Lieberman Software reveals that almost eight in ten IT security professionals believe that perimeter security technologies like firewalls and anti-malware solutions are sufficient in defending against advanced persistent threats (APTs). In a survey carried out at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas this August, the identity management solution provider indicated that the
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Over the years, I’ve spoken to many different types of small business owners in the UK, and I understand why, in many industries, internet security is low down their to-do-lists. IT security is just not a priority for the majority as they are busy working 18 hour days trying to keep up with actually making
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Thanks to everyone who came to the Future of Cybersecurity conference held at Worshipful Company of Information Technologists in London on 6th November 2014. We had a great turnout and a really interesting series of 2-sec speakers, with the chance to do some useful networking. Here are some photos from the event.
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With the launch of Apple Pay for the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch, the payments industry could be witnessing the birth of the next big thing. Mobile payments have been on the cusp for some time now, but what about existing payment infrastructures. Should merchants and retailers move to Payment Card Industry (PCI) point-to-point encryption as
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The papers are full of the Bash/Shellshock bug, claiming that “the virus is even worse than Heartbleed” and describing it as the “Catastrophic flaw which may threaten the security of millions of devices” (courtesy of the Daily Mail). At 2-sec though, we like to look at the facts before predicting doom and gloom on the
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How Secure is Apple Pay? Apple has launched Apple Pay, a new way to pay for everyday items, which will be “easy, secure and private” according to its CEO Tim Cook. But how secure will this new technology be? After the huge furore surrounding the recent leak of private celebrity photos from the iCloud, and
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Imagine you’re a small company that sells various widgets from your shop on the high street and online across the UK. You think you’re pretty organised, and have systems/policies in place to satisfy standards in health and safety, environmental health, trading requirements and everything else. All is ticking over nicely. Even your social media strategy
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So…stolen celebrity nude photos start leaking onto the 4Chan website – and no one is clear how the photos were stolen, or which individual was responsible. Some of the photos do seem genuine, and they’ve been spread right across the web, and now some unpleasant “entrepreneurs” are offering people a chance to see them in
