Buying cocaine or heroin has never been easier. Neither has finding a contract killer, joining an extremist group or viewing extreme pornography. The Deep Web – the dark underbelly of the internet – is growing and allowing users to surf beneath the ordinary surface web with almost complete anonymity. The GCHQ and FBI are constantly […]
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
Cyber Security Predictions for 2015 and Beyond! Read More »
Gone are the days where you could go out and spend your annual security budget on a set of brightly coloured firewalls that look good in racks. Here are the days where you have to satisfy yourself that all this kit you bought does what it says on the tin. What might come as a
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The best way to expand identity and access management (IAM) to third-party service providers is to treat a third party like an extension of your own company. All staff working for a third-party service provider, who have access to your systems or data, should have a unique user account and password. They should adhere to
The continuing rift between IT security professionals and ‘the business’ has been highlighted by a new study that shows many organisations still attach little value to cyber security – even though they know the threat is growing. The Turnkey Consulting survey finds that one in six IT security pros believe their organisation sees security merely
Many Organisations Attach Little Value to CISOs – Tim Holman in SC UK Magazine Read More »
Advertising tracking called ‘canvas fingerprinting’ is used on many websites and identifies unique individuals and their browsing habits and works surreptitiously. The privacy threat presented by a new web-user tracking technique called ‘canvas fingerprinting’ has been highlighted after researchers found it being used on prestigious sites such as the US White House and the official
First up, there has to be a security incident plan. At ISSA UK we see plenty of organisations without any incident response plan at all in place, and that means they could find themselves over-exposed when a cyber security incident does happen. Without a proper incident response plan in place, what happens to such organisations is
A committee sitting in the UK’s House of Lords has said that the EU’s ruling on the ‘right to be forgotten’, which requires companies to delete data on request where appropriate, is ‘unworkable’. The Lords Home Affairs EU Sub-Committee today ruled that the “right to be forgotten” is difficult to implement and that it should
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Ten cyber-security companies have cooperated to pool intelligence and combat Chinese APT actors. For the first time, a group of 10 leading cyber-security companies have joined forces to hit back against an advanced persistent threat (APT) hacker group. Previous joint efforts have focused on cyber criminals, but the security heavyweights – who include Microsoft, Cisco,
Global Security Firms Cooperate against Chinese Hackers – Tim Holman in SC UK Magazine Read More »
