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6 Ways Your SME Business May Be Vunerable to Attacks by Cyber-Criminals

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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The latest hack – Stolen Celebrity Photos – How can you keep your own info safe in the Cloud?

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

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Third Party Security Assurance for PCI DSS

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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SC Magazine: MS No-IP takedown hits 25% of APT attackers

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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European retail data breaches largely hidden, SC Congress told

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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Target breach aftermath: Is PCI compliance a ‘tick box’ exercise?

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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ISSA-UK “Ethics and Security” London Chapter Meeting – 26th June 2014

‘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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Invitation to Security in the Spotlight – free for cyber security professionals

ISSA-UK Dragon’s Den Security in the Spotlight HMS President, River Thames London, United Kingdom Thursday 10th July, 2014 – FREE FOR CYBER SECURITY PROFESSIONALS – REGISTER HERE (5 CPEs) In the Dragon’s Den event, ten security software/solution vendors battle it out for the best Speaker and best Product prizes, as voted by the audience. We

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Beat CryptoLocker. Beat Zeus.

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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