PCI DSS Archive
There is a trend among organisations that suffer data breaches – such as Eurostar, which has just identified a major data breach – to downplay their impact by saying things like ‘while usernames and passwords were compromised, the good news …
21st Century Chinese Cyberwarfare describes the Chinese military capability for waging war in the fifth sphere of military operations – land, sea, air, space and cyberspace – and US worries about a cyber Pearl Harbour echo themes of Western unpreparedness …
A lot has changed at IT Governance Ltd in the 14 months since last I posted on this blog. Our monthly revenues have increased by around 50% – and the number of people in the company has also gone up …
Alan Calder
November 11, 2011
Business and the Economy, Business Continuity, Compliance, Cyber Security, Data Breaches, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, ISMS, ISO 27001, ISO 27002 (ISO 17999), IT Governance, IT Security, PCI DSS, social media
At the end of October, we submitted the manuscript of the 5th Edition of our best-selling book on implementing an ISO27001 Information Security Management System (ISMS) to our external publisher, Kogan Page. It should be in bookshops across the world in Spring …
Do you imagine that your website and network are as safe and secure against external cyber attack as those of the IMF, the CIA and the US Senate? Are you likely to have spent as much on cyber security as …
Codemasters have just demonstrated the weakness of a fallback strategy, when attacked by hackers, of taking your website offline: the hackers will already have got away with a whole lot of valuable information. So Codemasters appear now to be in a …
“Out of an abundance of caution, we are advising you that your credit card number (excluding security code) and expiration date may have been obtained,” Sony is reported to have said to the 77 million customers whose personal data was …
Some UK acquiring banks have a determined campaign in place right now to get all level 2,3 and 4 merchants to PCI DSS compliance by October. Larger merchants should all not be compliant, which means that hackers and fraudsters will logically …
Apparently, we’re today kicking off the UK National Identity Fraud Prevention Week – and research for RSA reveals wide-spread disbelief (as in, 90% of Britons) that their personal data are safe with banks and retailers, and half the people think that not enough is done …
Well, that’s a relief – the UK government has caught up with the fact that there are criminals on the Internet. The government has said that it will spend £7 million to establish the Police Central E-crime Unit (PceU) in …
