Articles in category “InfoSec”
Why I'm Leaving Facebook
TLDR;
Social data is being weaponised, and I'll have no more to do with it
What has happened?
Last night Channel 4 aired a documentary showing the inner workings of the social media influence platform Cambridge Analytica. If you have 20 minuets to spare I suggest you go and give …
Watch out for wireless technologies
This is a cross post of a blog article I wrote at xiphosresearch.com
Common risk assessment blind spots
Wireless technologies have become commonplace in the last few decades, everything with a battery seems to have an IP stack and an antenna. Ubiquitous connectivity allows us access to the whole …
The Method of Loci
In my earlier post I mentioned that I was studying for my
PA-DSS exam and that I was using a memory palace technique to commit the
standard to memory prior to the exam. I'll find out in a couple of weeks
whether it actually helped as the exam didn't actually …
My experience of San Francisco and the BSides SF conference
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I'm currently sat waiting to finish the PA-QSA course and take my exam. I should probably be studying a little more, but I've memorised the standard with a memory palace technique that I used for PCI-DSS so I …
Breakerfaire 21st August slides
Here are the slides that I used at the my Breakerfaire talk last night.
Breakerfaire Liverpool August 21st
Thanks to Mat for asking me to come and speak, and the great attendees that really made me feel welcome. Hopefully I'll be back again soon.
Bad password policies
Ever since I got my Yubikey I've been a big fan of making sure my many web application accounts are as secure as possible. Thanks to services like LastPass you can now keep up unique complex passwords on every account you own with very little extra effort.
So, in this …
Using DVWA as a learning tool - OWASP Birmingham March 2012
Decoding the SANS Bsides london 2012 t shirt
Now that I've had a little while to recover from my tip to Atlantis ... sorry, London last week I thought I'd turn my hand to something that's been bothering me ever since I saw it.
Let me introduce the SANS variant of the offical bsides London t shirt.
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Why the London 2012 WiFi network will be a boon for information theives
I was reading twitter the other day and came across a report
on London getting blanketed by free WiFi
coverage
courtesy of O2 and this got me thinking. If I were a bad guy this would
present me with such a very tasty target. Lots of tourists coming into
the …
