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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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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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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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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