News hit the wire today that Target’s acquiring banks have issued another lawsuit against Target, including Trustwave as a co-defendant. This time the banks are trying to recover some costs incurred from Target’s managed data security services provider, presumably for negligence or not detecting the vulnerability and fixing it sooner. This marks new territory for
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Free tickets – register here – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/threat-central-agm-issa-uk-london-chapter-meeting-tickets-10435552017 You are all warmly welcomed to the March ISSA-UK AGM and London Chapter Meeting, Threat Central. The event will feature some of the UK’s top cyber security speakers and we thank Grant Thornton and HP for sponsoring this event. 4:00 – Registration and refreshments 4.30 – ISSA-UK Annual
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The PCI SSC recently announced the new PCI DSS v3.0 Self Assessment Questionnaires (SAQs). Of particular interest was SAQ-A-EP, that has enshrined Visa Europe’s original guidance on securing Hosted Payment Pages (HPPs) into PCI DSS v3.0. This of course is a great move for card data security as a whole, but generally bad news to
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Tim Holman interviewed by SC Magazine – http://www.scmagazineuk.com/all-android-devices-believed-hit-by-security-flaw/article/339321/
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Tim interviewed by SC Magazine – http://www.scmagazineuk.com/businesses-still-dont-value-cisos-survey-finds/article/340261/
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Tim featured in Telefonica blog – http://blog.digital.telefonica.com/2014/03/17/cyber-crime-cost/
Cybercrime to cost you over $1m to clean up Read More »
I was visiting an airline site today, and when prompted to enter my credit card details to book the flight, and whether or not I wanted to store my card details for future transactions, saw the note: “It’s safer to store your payment card details in our secure vault than it is to send them
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The general manager of the PCI SSC, Bob Russo, and CTO Troy Leach were recently invited to present to the US Congress, on the subcommittee “Protecting Consumer Information: Can Data Breaches be Prevented?”. Their statements can be found here: https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/140202_PCI_SSC.pdf https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/HMTG-113-IF17-Wstate-RussoB-20140205.pdf Whilst the statements did a good job at supporting the PCI SSC and its
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