Luke Vile – our Cyber Security Operations Director has been featured in The Telegraph. He was speaking to Oliver Pickup, Telegraph journalist. The article content is included below. Do staff have too much data access and what should a company do if a breach has been detected? How securely are today’s businesses treating all […]
A whitepaper by CenturyLink Emea has just reported that only 25% of legal sector IT decision-makers said their firms were GDPR ready, despite one in five having experienced an attempted cyber-attack in the past month. Why is there so much apathy surrounding the GDPR, even though there is only six months to go until the
Fearmongering and the GDPR: Why we need positivity around the new regulation. Read More »
If you managed to grab The Times today you will see that our Director, Luke Vile, commented on an article discussing big data/tech firms and Government regulation. Full text as follows: In August, Ms Rudd was dispatched to Silicon Valley, where the biggest tech giants roam, and attended the inaugural meeting of the Global Internet
You may have read this morning about a reported potential vulnerability in some Wi-Fi networks, known as KRACKs. Our first analysis indicates that via KRACKs, an attacker within range of a device could potentially intercept, decrypt and read data that has supposedly been securely transmitted over a ‘protected’ Wi-Fi network. In some cases, the attacker
Our advice on the KRACKS Wi-Fi vulnerability Read More »
Another day, another data breach and yet another apology. After hackers stole private data of Equifax’s 143 million customers (including data from 400,000 UK residents), their new CEO Paulino do Rego Barros Jr, wrote an open letter that was published by the Wall Street Journal on 27 September. “On behalf of Equifax, I want to express my sincere
Don’t use the Equifax example: How you SHOULD communicate a data breach Read More »
It’s not easy to admit to getting it wrong, but that’s what Bill Burr did in a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal. Back in 2003, as an advisor for the American National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Burr recommended irregular capitalisation, special characters and numerals in our passwords; such as wHyWeN3edP4s5w0rd5. Burr
Expert admits that his password advice was wrong. So how should you choose a password? Read More »
Alexander Drabek is part of our team of expert penetration testers; who “ethically hack” into client’s networks and find any potential weaknesses. We asked him exactly what it is he does, and how he does it. What skills do you need to become a penetration tester? Many people think penetration testers are highly obsessive and
A day in the life of a 2-sec penetration tester Read More »
Ever had days when you feel like time is standing still, and you spend most of the day staring at the clock? Us too. Especially in my first “proper” job working as a lowly BT data entry “administrator” in the early 1990s. (It paid just enough for the occasional curry and weekend pint). Nowadays I’m
Bored and distracted employees are your biggest security risk Read More »
An interesting external penetration test was recently performed by our expert team, that resulted in discovery of a new vulnerability (CVE-2017-9553) in a popular Synology NAS device. A NAS (Network Attached Storage) device is a storage mechanism connected to a network that allows storage and retrieval of data from a centralized location for authorized network
2-sec’s expert team uncovers new vulnerability in popular Synology NAS device Read More »
