So we hear in the press that eBay has now been subject to a data breach, and potentially all eBay’s users have had their personal details and password hashes exposed. This is a LOT of users. On one hand you might argue that a lot of “personal” data is already public, after all in the […]
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Our CEO Tim Holman was interviewed this week by SC Magazine for his views around the recent Chinese snub of Windows 8.0 and Microsoft licenses. http://www.scmagazineuk.com/china-snubs-microsoft-for-ending-xp-security/article/347890/
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Vendorcom invited 2-sec on a Community Golf Day in sunny Woking on 15th May. We managed to get a great photo below of the team! If you fancy joining us for the next game, drop us a line to let us know!
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Our very own Chapter President, Tim Holman, will be standing for a Director position on the ISSA International Board. Elections kick off on the 2nd June 2014, and of course he and ISSA-UK would appreciate your support when voting opens on June 2 2014. Tim’s goals are set out in his nomination, that follows: Biography
We’ve just got back into the office following a busy week at Infosec 2014, where we spent 3 days catching up, networking, manning the stand and listening to the odd talk. I had the joys of speaking at one of the new “silent conferences”. Due to the acoustic issues of running several speaking sessions in
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The UK government and some other large organisations have recently procured Windows XP support extension packages from Microsoft.  HMG in this instance have committed a £5.5m budget to ensure that future security vulnerabilities will be addressed and patched.  And that’s money they might not even have needed to spend. HMG will not be permitted to
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Tim was recently interviewed by SC Magazine as to his views on the Heartbleed issue. The newly formed CERT-UK seems to be doing very little to protect small businesses, and vulnerability researchers have favoured the bigger firms with plenty of advance warning.  Vulnerabilities of this nature cripple e-commerce, and with the UK supposedly leading the
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The recently publicised OpenSSL vulnerability has sent shock waves around the security community. Â Servers can’t keep up with user password changes and certificate authorities worldwide have been clogged up with paranoid sysadmins requesting new HTTPS key pairs. Â Whilst the server side fix is quick, the end user impact is huge, with many not being tech
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Tim interviewed by Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/shivvy-jervis/cyber-attacks-business_b_5083906.html
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