A50 Remain Petition Data
I love a good Excel spreadsheet. So when I say this post on LinkedIn (LINK) I started to look at the data they had posted on their page here: https://www.livefrombrexit.com/petitions/241584 Before we start, this is not a political blog, nor am I casting into doubt any party etc, this is purely an exercise in…
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Security Valentine 2
After the great fun of the previous Security Valentines, I ran it again in 2019 and the fabulous people of Twitter came up with the following: (many thanks to all who contributed! and sorry to @recrudesce ! for the 2019 tweets!!) #SecurityValentines Roses are red I like to drink wine Because I found a flaw…
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A review of my 2018 predictions
Well what a fun year 2018 turned out to be. So much happened during the year, big hacks, discrete hacks and blatant lulz hacking. At the beginning of the year, I sat down and wrote a tweet that eventually became a blog “my 2018 Predictions” (LINK). In that blog I gave a list of things…
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Seven types of cyber criminals : 2018 version
It was in 2012 that I first wrote about the 7 Levels of Hackers. Up till that point, there were six levels previously discussed in blogs etc, but I added “The Automated Tool” as at that time, I was seeing more and more automated attacks on websites. The 2012 list looked as follows: At the…
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Out Of Office notices for OSINT
Well it’s summer holiday time and conference time. I hope you are all looking forward to the peace and quiet of empty offices and reduced interruptions followed by 4 weeks of “How was your trip?” I am sure that you will be careful with your out-of-office notice, but what about your colleagues? What will their Out of…
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I’m OK, but Graham Cluley made me do it
This is a story that has been playing out for about a year. Where it all came from Do you remember the NCSC posts about passwords? That one about password lengths, about how often we should/shouldn’t update them. After that was the flurry of Twitter posts about encrypt everything, VPN everything, HTTPS everything. I remember…
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Podcasts I listen to Jan 2018
Podcasts are a personal thing, some people love them, others hate them. The type is also a personal choice. Over time, I have changed the podcasts I listen to as well. This is the current podcast list I listen to as well as links for you to find out more info / subscribe. Malicious Life…
2018 Conferences and Events
Here are a list of the conferences I am hoping to attend in 2018. I will try to keep this table updated if I can with other events too. Let me know on Twitter if you are going to be at any of the events. For a more general list of conferences, see here :…
2018 Predictions (expanded)
Predictions for 2018 I wrote a tweet (here) with an amusing list of my predictions for 2018. I thought I’d expand on them with some more details as to why I chose these albeit amusing predictions. bitcoin something nation state things bad .. Bigly bad .. stuff ransomware again passwords again over hyped marketing bs…
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Bitcoin Wallet Blacklist
What if there was a central list of Bitcoin addresses that have been used in malicious activity, that someone can reference to – a Bitcoin Blacklist if you will?”
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