ISSA-UK and Microsoft have arranged a Microsoft Security Training Day on Tuesday December 13th, 2011. The aim of Security Training Days are to educate delegates as to new developments in technologies and solutions that will help them in their day-to-day security roles. This event is worth 5.5 CPDs/CPEs to contribute toward your ongoing security training […]

ISSA-UK are holding their next training workshop in Bristol on Wednesday 9th November, 13:30 – 17:30. This is essential training for anybody with full or partial responsibility for Incident Response Management within their respective organisations. You will be hearing from our highly experienced workshop leader, Adrian Wright, ex-CISO Reuters and CEO/founder of Secoda, whom has

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It’s far too depressing to blog about the state of information security affairs in the world today – a criminal clicks his/her fingers and corporations are brought to their knees… so today, what does it mean to be President of ISSA-UK, what do I get up to and why do I do it? Partly, the

Right. Just how many more companies need to lose or have personal data stolen before we get to the point there’s a reasonable chance that x out of y people can no longer use their personal data as unique identifiers, and what exactly is that going to do to the person-not-present industry? We have circa

I had a call from O2 today with regards to a phone upgrade. It went something like this: “Hello, is that Mr Tim Holman” “Yes” “You’re phone’s due for an upgrade and I have some fantastic news for you. We can offer you a lower tariff and get you an iPhone 4! Isn’t that great?”

Fresh in the news, Play.com recently warned customers to be “extra vigilant” after a security breach led to the compromise of personal information. No payment card details were understood to have be stolen. “The retailer, which sells music, videos and games, blamed another company that it employs to do marketing.” – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12819330 So we’ve got

At least according to the ICO’s recent online survey, results published last week (www.ico.gov.uk). Taking a stroll down the local shopping mall a while back, it appears most retailers don’t understand wireless security settings, either. A whopping 98% of visible devices in a 3-400 unit shopping mall appear to use WEP. Fortunately, leading broadband providers

Another bit of news landed in my Inbox this morning, where a retailer claims to be subject to a security breach and as such has completely retired their website. The retailer is well known and has a shop on every high street. A spectacular piece of PR appears on their website now, saying they’ve taken