Retail security is in the news again as the British Retail Consortium (BRC) report that crime in this sector has reached a 10 year high. This reporting appears to indicate…
As part of the cross-sector safety and security communications plan, the City of London police have announced today some significant changes being made to reinforce the ring of steel around…
When it comes to security, there is an unfortunate tendency for organisations (large and small) to fall into the trap of treating their physical security as something separate or different…
We are in a new year now, the end of the world never materialised and everyone will be back at work, getting ready to push on their new years resolutions…
In the news today there was a report about a cash delivery being attacked in Brentwood, London, which involved three masked attackers stunning the security guard with a Taser and…
The effects of crime can be devastating on people and businesses. While recent crime trends have been reassuring, there is still a reported 1 in 50 businesses in the United…
It was recently reported that nearly ever member (approximately 35 Million people) of a South Korean social networking site had their personal data exposed as the result of a hack…
News reports are coming into today of a terrorist attack in Norway. It appears that a gunman opened fire on a youth conference on the island of Utoya, killing four…
According to a tweet by "AnonymouSabu" - apparently a hacker collective on twitter - the website of the Sun news paper has been hacked. The slightly more famous hacker collective…
We are all used to the phrase that security is important but is this something you really believe or are you paying lip-service to the notion? This is just as…
Security is about protecting the things that are important to you. Most people know this. What matters is how you do your security. It is fairly well understood that if…
Most businesses, when interacting with their financial services provider, assume that they are going to be protected to a certain degree if things go wrong. This may not always be…
It is often stated that "staff are the most important asset" to any business yet frequently employers fail to take the correct steps to ensure the security of their staff.…
On Monday we discussed the problem with people assuming that more and more successful hacks and security breaches were the result of "sophisticated" or "state-sponsored" attackers. Then, on Tuesday, the…
The news about various large scale corporations falling under the onslaught of hackers continues to come out. Last week it was revealed that Citibank's security had been breached with potentially…