For the week ending 19th June 2016 I asked attendees at Infosec if businesses were ready for GDPR When cybersecurity research leads to jail, an article on research and disclosure challenges. You're probably aware that Microsoft acquired Linkedin. Ben Thompson at Stratechery (I am never sure how to pronounce that) wrote a good analysis  of … Continue reading Things I hearted last week →

For the week ending 12th June 2016 Last week Infosec drew the crowds to London. I wrote a short writeup on how we found it on the AlienVault Blog William Hague was one of the keynotes at Infosec (btw, do conferences use 'keynote' synonymously with 'talk' these days? It seems like everything is a keynote.) In which … Continue reading Things I hearted Last Week →

For the week ending 5th June 2016 My feeds were pretty much taken over with the sad news that  boxing legend Mohammad Ali has passed. So, a slightly lighter than usual weekly roundup. What do you do when you're Jerry Gamblin and messing around with Docker? Simple, you build KaliBrowser to run in a container with a … Continue reading Things I hearted last week →

I’ve never given much thought as to how long I’ve been blogging for, but for the purposes of this post I went and took a look. My first ever blog post went live on August 19th 2008, anonymously posting as The Infosec Cynic. That’s nearly eight years I’ve been doing this whole blogging thing. It’s … Continue reading A blog about blogging, with bloggers →

For the week ending 29th May 2016 Furry Site Hacked, Content Deleted That time a patient’s heart procedure was interrupted by a virus scan Every 10 hours Tesla gets another million miles worth of data Scott Helme shares some guidance on setting up HPKP 1 in 10 banking CEOs don’t know if they’ve been hacked … Continue reading Things I hearted last week →

For the week ending Friday 20th May 2016 CESG's password guidance advises against password expiry. Grab some popcorn and let the debates rage on. Stuart Winter-Tear gives an overview to the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and profiling. Dr Jessica Barker never fails to bring a unique perspective, particularly where it comes to the … Continue reading Things I hearted last week →

Week ending Friday 13th May 2016 FireEye and Imperva stock hurt as targets are missed and revenues are shifting more towards the cloud. New CompTIA Research Reveals Cybersecurity Breaches Hit Almost 50 percent of Organisations in the UAE Another great post as always by Troy Hunt on Test data done right with SQL Data Generator … Continue reading Things I hearted last week →

Roundup for the week ending 6th May 2016. Remember Orange Tsai wrote about how he hacked Facebook as part of their Bug Bounty program and found evidence of another hacker. Violet Blue digs a bit deeper to see how far the rabbit hole goes.  This looks so cool - Build a Raspberry Pi-Powered Linux Laptop … Continue reading Things I hearted last week →

Following yesterday's video, a couple of people asked whether the "Hacker Party" song was actually a full-length song. I can neither confirm nor deny that Host Unknown is working on a full music video for this. But here's the track extracted for those who asked - it's a rough sample, so nothing we'd use in … Continue reading Hacker Party →