Seven types of cyber criminals: 2024 version
Blog by Stuart Coulson regarding the Seven Types of Cyber Criminal. This is the 2024 and has a new entrant of AI-Enabled Criminals.
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Criminal Hackers
Are all Hackers Criminal Hackers? Are there good and bad Hackers and what is the difference between a Hacker and Criminal?
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CV Tips for people looking for their next role
CV Tips for Technical & Non-technical People to help you land your next role. These tips are from someone who has hired people as well as using them themselves.
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Press Announcement : New Cyber Product Grading System Announced
We are proposing, rather sarcastically, that we use a grading system that has an origin story rooted in the term “Military Grade” and use that to create a benchmark for products and services that companies can use to give their customers faith in their services.
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XSS and Tweetdeck and the person behind the discovery
So XSS appears to be back in Tweetdeck. I was first alerted when I got this pop-up : My initial reaction was to ask out on Twitter – then I noticed it … every time there was a love heart in someone’s tweet I got a pop-up telling me there was an XSS in
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Digital Freedom – the manifesto is launched
Mikko Hypponen and David Hasselhoff have appeared on stage at re:publica 14 and launched the new Digital Freedom manifesto. The manifesto is based on 4 points : Freedom from mass surveillance (target / blanket) Freedom from digital persecution (privacy in the future) Freedom from digital colonisation Freedom of digital access, movement and speech I watched the keynote
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Security Mantras
I have to explain security concepts quite a bit in my job and so I thought I’d share my thoughts with you all for some discussion. I’m going to keep it brief and then update this blog with the feedback and comments shortly. Mantra 1 There are two kinds of people – those who
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Top Insecurity Tips
This is meant to be humorous blog about internet tips and why some advice is just bad. Just a bit of fun for April’s Fool. 1) Go to a public internet access point to surf the internet for a long time. Free wi-fi ! Bad idea – Public internet cafes are common places for various
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Why do I do what I do ?
I ask myself this several times a month … why am I doing this ? Yet again, another compromised site, more unpatched software – I could scream ! Well … I could … but I don’t. Each person has their own incident – to them it is a personal disaster and so I respect that.
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Security Valentines
So for Valentines, I decided to create a Hashtag #SecurityValentine partly for some fun but also to get some ideas together for simple security messages. Roses are red, Security is precious, A pentest means more than “Just scan it with Nessus” (Source @recrudesce) During a pentest, Finding XP is like heaven, Cos you can exploit it,
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What is an ‘Ethical Hack’ ?
This great question was posted on LinkedIn and it got me thinking. In the strictest use of the phrase ethical security testing – I believe an accurate description would include: explicit instruction authorisation owned system However, we need to get pernickety about definitions with this phrase: Ethical. ‘No-one got hurt’ or ‘no data
It’s time to talk
Talk .. its a simple thing. Sometimes we get criticised for talking too much, sometimes to the wrong person and often for not saying enough. And yet the phrase is “talk is cheap.” I disagree, talking can be expensive! Talking is a unique skill, animals can communicate but the breadth of language we have achieved
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