It’s that time of year again, when the great and the good start posting lists of their industry predictions for 2015. We will be posting forecasts from our 2-sec consultants right up to Christmas on LinkedIn, but I thought I’d start the ball rolling. Here’s a short snippet on what I, and the rest of the […]
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Chris Phillips is Head of Physical Security Consulting at 2-sec. He is one of the most experienced physical and cyber security consultants in the world. He specializes in giving strategic counter terrorism advice and best practice to “at risk” companies, individuals and governments. Chris started his security career as a police officer, and gained hands
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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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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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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
The GetSafeOnline site is back up and online, and I urge you to visit the site and check whether or not your computer is injected with CryptoLocker or Zeus by downloading and running their malware removal tools. https://www.getsafeonline.org/news/we-have-short-time-to-beat-powerful-computer-attack/ Even if you have up to date anti-malware / anti-virus software, you could still be infected. Even
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