For the week ending 17th July 2016 Pokemon Go took the cybers by storm. There was much hullabaloo over the excessive permissions the app was asking for, which seem to have been fixed. Still, I liked this writeup by Dan Guido on the permissions Pokemon Go got. Four cyber attacks on UK railways in a … Continue reading Things I hearted Last Week →

For the week ending 10th July 2016 The recorded talks from BsidesLondon are up! Check out the playlist here. There are some really good talks in there - I haven't seen all of them yet, but Steve Lords Naughty Toys for Wicked Girls and Boys  and Holly William's Offensive Anti-Analysis are definitely worthwhile. Ashley Madison … Continue reading Things I hearted last week →

For the week ending 3rd July 2016 The rumours are in the air of Intel mulling sale of its security business. A practical guide to securing OSX geared towards power users. Facebook and creepy? <shocked face> Using your phones location to suggest new friends. US hospitals hacked with ancient exploits. No O-day here, only Old-Day. See … Continue reading Things I hearted Last Week →

For the week ending 26th June 2016 OSSEC 2.9 release. An Australian healthcare system using MS-DOS 6.22 is being taken to court to force upgrade.  Paypal dumped cloud company after it refused to monitor customer files. Microsoft extends its support for Docker containers. How celebrity twitter accounts are getting hacked. Want to stop people filming … Continue reading Things I hearted last week →

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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 →