Nigeria has temporarily scrapped plans to introduce a 0.5% cyber levy on transactions, despite the proceeds funding national campaigns and CERTs.

By me SC Media UK - insight.scmagazineuk.com/nigerian-cyber…

Where cyber initiatives are under funded, is this an example others will follow?

Looking to talk to anyone who is now compliant with #PCI DSS #v4 , or is on the journey to compliance, now that v3.2.1 has passed and we're less than a year to the final deadline in 2025. Get in touch if you want to share any thoughts for an article I'm working on. #journorequest

New from me For SC Media UK I learned about the concept of security champions and figured it was looked into common questions: how do they work, how do you select people, encouraging people, and how is it different from a security awareness campaign?

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Feels like an age since I was last here, but almost at the end of another season and the Leyton Orient FC pitch looks fantastic. #coys Tottenham Hotspur Women

🤩 And finally Tottenham Hotspur Women appreciation post
🏟️ We dared to dream and you took us there
⭐️ We learn and we move, we’re right behind you
#COYS

Not boasting (promise) but in honour of the Adobe Women's FA Cup final tomorrow, made a #Tottenham cake for the first time. Although expect it will be eaten by the end of #Eurovision .

Great to have a random The Fighting Cock encounter.

After meeting David Alfie Ward on the tube once, tonight Carl Donnelly was brilliant at The Boat Show Comedy Club

Latest news in 'brain functioning whilst doing household tasks': after telling Eleanor Dallaway I do weeding whilst listening to her podcast, last night I figured out the end of #insideno9 as I put the food recycling out.

Huge thanks to SC Media UK and Dan Raywood for a 2nd article on regulation - we can call this the midnight rambler series:

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Statement from Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP says attack on MoD Payroll was work of 'maligned actor' and cannot rule out state sponsored involvement.

Also says no data affected, April salaries were paid.

Introduces 8 point plan to investigate incident and 'put right and cannot happen again'.

A short news for @SCMagazineuk on the #MoD hack.

Whilst we wait for the Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP statement, questions to be answered: who the payroll contractor are, are they held accountable here. Also any link to the statement issued by Oliver Dowden in March.

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Been working on this a little while about Tottenham Hotspur Women FA Cup journey! Check it out, especially if you’re a Spurs fan!

Searching for a bus to get from kings cross to Waterloo, this is what Google suggests.

'Too much regulation is about enforcing fines and threatening action, without any actual effort to ensure there is a benefit to the enforcement.'

Delighted to include this commentary from Ian Thornton-Trump CD 🇵🇱 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🏴‍☠️ + 🇺🇦 this week on SC Media UK

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Follow up to my #Heartbleed article, with a interview with OpenSSF GM Omkhar Arasaratnam to discuss the security of open source 10 years on. Are we too reliant on the volunteered hours of maintainers, and is the space clouded with for-profit offerings?

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Nice idea, but @jlpjobs may want to sort out the cookie issue on their website first - no option to accept/decline and 'greys out' the website making the links unclickable!

#NIS2 Widens Scope Of Key EU Security Directive

New for SC Media UK, and delighted to have John Leyden join as one of our contributing writers

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