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
Almost 2 years ago, 2-sec founded the PCI SSC’s Third Party Security Assurance SIG, following the PCI SSC Community Meeting in Dublin. The aim of the SIG was to incorporate third party security assurance guidance into PCI DSS v3.0 and to produce an information supplement. Sounds easy, doesn’t it? But with input from over 200
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Tim Holman was featured in an article in SC Magazine in July – read the whole article below! After facing a barrage of criticism for taking down the No-IP DNS server, Microsoft is now getting praise from some quarters for its impact on malware distribution – though critics remain. MS No-IP takedown hits 25% of
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Please read below an article I was featured in by the Computer Weekly Magazine on Data Security. European retail data breaches largely hidden, SC Congress told The growing number of data breaches at US retailers is largely down to mandatory breach disclosure laws, according to Tim Holman, president of ISSA-UK and chief executive at security consultancy 2-sec. “There are
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I was featured in the article by SC Magazine below! Target Breach Aftermath – Is PCI Compliance a “Tick Box” Exercise? PCI compliance was called a ‘gold standard’ and ‘secure baseline’ at a conference in London today, but not all believe that it does enough to guard against data breaches. Panellists speaking at the second
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‘Ethics and Security’ – June London Chapter Meeting ISSA-UK Thursday, 26 June 2014 from 4.00 to 9.00 pm, London You are warmly invited to our London Chapter Meeting ‘Ethics and Security’ where we see some of the industry’s top speakers. We will also be introducing a special guest panel for this session. Thanks to Grant Thornton
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