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British Airways breached
I got the dates wrong in the video, should have said 21st Aug to 5th Sept. But, this is me looking at the whole incident as a customer, not as…
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Security in the cloud
This video was prompted by discussions with someone that was adamant that they would never, never, everrrrr put their logs in the cloud. I enquired as to why they weren’t…
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What is AlienVault
It’s coming up on my 3 year anniversary at AlienVault – and after a conversation with a friend, it dawned on me that I don’t think I’ve ever really explained…
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I think I’ve been hacked
A lot of individuals and companies of all sizes often use the phrase where they ‘think’ they’ve been hacked or breached, or had some form of unwanted event. There is…
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19 ways to say “Good job” to your security colleagues
Anytime we discuss security, it’s mainly to talk about the failures. So I’m taking time out today to spread some positivity to all those security folks that have made it…
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Carphone Warehouse fined
via IFTTT After its 2015 breach, the Information Commissions Office (ICO) has released a very thorough report which highlights a number of deficiencies in Carphone Warehouse’s security. I’ve summed up…
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Uncybered
It dawned on me, that I’ve never written a browser extension before. And there are words IT Security articles continually overuse that I wish they wouldn’t. So, I combined both…
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M&A Mania
2018 has kicked off with a flurry of M&A activity in the infosec space. There have been four that I’ve been aware of, Barracuda acquired Phishline Cyxtera acquired Immunity Inc…
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10 infosec conversation starters
I recently had my 17 anniversary… which is almost as long as I’ve been working in information security. Information security is great for communication, and communication is great for all…
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Exploiting browser password logins
The cool researchers over at freedom to tinker found two scripts that exploit browsers built in login managers to retrieve and exfiltrate ID’s. Below is the email I sent, and…