Roundup for the week ending 29th April 2016. BAE systems published a write-up on the hack against the Bangladesh Bank SWIFT system. Hacked Firm Cares More About Its Users' Security Than Its Image. Could this become a thing? Grab a coffee and set aside a few minutes to read this. A Leak Wounded This Company. Fighting … Continue reading Things I hearted Last Week
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Android Malware
We often hear of the latest and greatest malware that targets android phones. However, many can be avoided by following simple steps such as not rooting your device or downloading files from dodgy sources. Matt Roxburgh inspired this video with this tweet on a common way malware gets on android phone with this image. I felt … Continue reading Android Malware
Heading to the Rocky Mountains
One of the best kept secret conferences over the last decade has been the Rocky Mountain Information Security Conference (RMISC). At least, I assume it's been a secret because I wasn't aware of it earlier. The reason I'm so interested in the Rocky Mountain Information Security Conference is that this year they kindly invited me … Continue reading Heading to the Rocky Mountains
Thycotic expanding its horizons
Washington DC-based password management vendor Thycotic was founded in 1996 making it one of the early entrants into the privilege password management space. While remaining largely self-funded since its founding, Thycotic recently took its first ever investment from Insight Venture Partners. The details of the deal remain undisclosed. Secret Server 9.0 – adding Mac and … Continue reading Thycotic expanding its horizons
Defining Threat Intelligence
In my younger days, I’d enjoy reading many books. I went through a phase where I really enjoyed Stephen King stories. One of my favourites being ‘Christine’, the story of a car that was possessed by a demon or something. I’d often come across new words that I didn’t understand. And being before the days … Continue reading Defining Threat Intelligence
Things I hearted last week
Nice short writeup of a BGP hijack event that took place. Steve Ragan at CSO Online has written about why the Hacking Team postmortem is something all security leaders should read. How I hacked Facebook, and found someone's backdoor script. Writeups like these really show the benefit of bug bounty programs. Of course Congress is clueless … Continue reading Things I hearted last week
What is happening people?
This is how it's all meant to go down. Like syndrome.
Things I hearted last week
Spies rejoice! Gmail, Facebook Messenger, Breached once again Dell compiles a list of current hacking prices. Interesting analysis of the price trends over the last 3 years with most prices going up. The economist has an in-depth piece on how the AI industry is booming with Tech firms luring AI experts from universities with big salaries … Continue reading Things I hearted last week
Things I recently Hearted
Interesting article on challenging bad behaviour by a video game company This is a new form of scriptless attacks, using HTML5. Basically if you can inject HTML but not JavaScript, the site is still at risk. Whatsapp turned on encryption for it’s <Dr. Evil voice> ONE BILLION users </Dr. Evil voice> From Bill Brenner over … Continue reading Things I recently Hearted
Going to Colombia
Hola! I'm rather excited to have been invited to speak at Tactical Edge in Colombia this October. It will be the first time I'll get to see that part of the world and am really looking forward to visiting. Unfortunately, I don't know any Spanish, so wasn't able to make a video addressing my Colombian peers … Continue reading Going to Colombia
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