In fact, ‘Business’ is positively booming (for the tech savvy bank robber) Before we begin, a relatively short time on Google provides a rough sense of scale to work with: (Disclaimer: I spent far longer than I should have on these figures and had to move on, so I am entirely open to correction) The […]
The Bank Heist is Alive and Well in the Digital Age Read More »
What is a Near Miss? In a non-cyber security context: Every single day countless accidents nearly happen, but often we don’t spare them a second thought. Because, simply put, they didn’t happen. Some of those almost-accidents are minor things – one of my kids carelessly knocks a glass of red wine in a pale carpeted
The Near Miss Mentality – No harm, no foul? Read More »
Cyber Security – It’s something of a Hot Topic Month after month, year after year, recently it seems that the state of global cyber security is always, consistently, making headlines. Everybody is talking about it. Well, almost everybody. Last week George Osborne, the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, delivered his 2016 Budget and, somehow, he
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It’s time for your SQL Injection, now hold still you’re going to feel a sharp scratch… If your business has a website, and I suspect it does, then the chances are that, behind-the-scenes, it uses a programming language called Structured Query Language (SQL) to manipulate and retrieve data stored in databases. Now when I say
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Coming soon to cinemas everywhere In years to come I’m almost positive that we can expect a film adaptation of certain recent events. Like a weird mash up perhaps of The Social Network (2010), The Matrix (1999), Hackers (1995), and.. I don’t know.. Welcome to Macintosh (yes that’s a real film too, made in 2008)
Apple to give FBI backdoor to the iPhone… Read More »
You can almost feel it happening, can’t you? Every time there is an introduction of, or a change to some regulation or another, the vultures of the legal, security consulting, and even security product vendors spin up their marketing machines to invent new promises on how they will ‘guide you through the pending minefield’. The
Privacy Shield (ex. Safe Harbor), Here Come the Vultures! Read More »
BACKGROUND The Italian based company Hacking Team (that sells surveillance software tools to government agencies and private companies), experienced a data breach last weekend which led to the alleged theft of 400GB of corporate data. The data contained financial information, customer contact details and apparently the source code of all their supplied surveillance tools. It’s
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We’re delighted to announce that 2-sec has been nominated as finalists for no less than three categories in the 2015 Cyber Security Awards . 2-sec were nominated as: Consulting Practice of the Year and our CEO Tim Holman was nominated in two categories: Personality of the Year Penetration Tester of the Year The awards reward
Cyber Security Awards 2015: 2-sec are finalists in three categories Read More »
A recent report written by Enterprise Strategy Group (and commissioned by Intel Security ), reveals slow responses to cyber-attacks from UK enterprises are leaving companies vulnerable to targeted online crime. This research is one of the latest attempts to persuade IT users to check their defences against cyber-threats and equally importantly to make some investments
