Vacation time for some … playtime for criminals
It’s come to that point in the year, the great annual exodus … holidays … I too am about to go on vacation, but then comes the big debates: What do I put in my out-of-office? How do I address my void on social media? How do I explain why I’m not replying to comments…
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2017 – Conference Survival Guide
2017 is flying by, helped by the numerous attacks we are seeing. I usually create one each year and this is now updated as below with stuff I learned from last year. At some point, you will be attending a security conference (hopefully) and from the numerous conferences I have been to, I have put…
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Collection of resources on the NHS Cyber Attack
I thought I would create a page for myself just to keep some idea of the timelines and order of things and to make sense of what I’m reading. How it started : The US intelligence Agency had a 0-day called EternalBlue. EternalBlue looks like this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rrY0S8x3HQ Approx 14th April 2017 “The ShadowBrokers” leaked this code amongst…
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Attribution Bingo
Identifying an individual on the internet is hard. Really hard. There has to be some uniqueness that you can identify to pinpoint down on an individual. That could be style of writing, phrases, icons, avatars, nicknames, names etc. Currently the President of the US is also experiencing this issue. He suspects to have been monitored and…
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World Book Day 2017
In honour of World Book Day, I thought I would share with you some ideas for books that I’d recommend. I am an avid reader and so suggestions welcome ! The ones in bold are absolute favourites of mine and I have gone back to them several times. Security Books @Large – Freedman and Mann…
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Define, Fun, Hack, infosec, Inspiration, kids, life skills, Personal, security, tips, World Book DayManufacturing Security Standards
This came up in a Brightalk the other day with and Kaspersky and it has really been bothering me. Cyber Essentials At the moment in the UK, SMEs are being encouraged to adopt Cyber Essentials – a minimum baseline in information security. Before we all start bashing it, remember, it is just that –…
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Making a Raspberry Pi Photo Frame
This is the updated version of this post. This was my first Raspberry Pi project … and it didn’t get off to a good start. I have since got a new router and lost all means of getting back on to the Pi so I spent some time doing a full rebuild and fixing some…
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Three is the magic number
There are only a few choices in the UK when it comes to mobile phone providers. One of those companies is ThreeUK. This therefore means that out of the UK population, the number of people using this provider is significant. This puts a significant amount of users’ data in the hands of ThreeUK to look after.…
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List of Threat Maps
I have collated a list of links to maps that I thought may interest you. Please let me know if you know of any others. Cyber Threat Maps Akamai ArborNetworks Checkpoint CTF365 Deutsche Telekom F-Secure FireEye Fortiguard Kaspersky Looking Glass Cyber MalwareTech Metadefender Microsoft Norse Corp OpenDNS SANS TrendMicro Team Cymru WatchGuard On a…
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Why Carriers need to think about DDoS
So it started with Brian Krebs and now DynDNS, where will it end and will it ever end? What am I talking about? Well, massive surges of traffic targeted at these site are blocking legitimate traffic from getting there. A Distributed Denial of Service attack or DDoS. What is the number of the beast With security…
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