Heartbleed bled out and now, an arrest
The RCMP have managed to track down and arrest the first ne'er do well in London, Ontario. The RCMP have not indicated how they managed to puzzle out who attacked the Canada Revenue Agency. I am...
View ArticleBSides London 2014
I'm very happy to be back in London for the second year in a row to attend BSides London. This year the conference has grown in size and has attracted a great list of talent. Talks range from the likes...
View ArticleMiami teen pulls a Ferris. Gets arrested.
There are some movies that are timeless in nature. They can make you laugh. They can make you cry. They can inspire the viewer. Sometimes that inspiration is, well, shall we say, suboptimal.
View ArticleInto malware? Time to play in the Cuckoo Sandbox
Have a taste for tearing apart malware? Then you have probable played with Cuckoo Sandbox. If not, it is really time to take a poke at it. This is an open source malware analysis toolset. You can drop...
View ArticleRuby on Rails security update available
First off, what is it? Well, for those of you who may not know, Ruby on Rails is an open source web frame work that has been around since 2003. It was first developed by David Heinemeier Hansson and...
View ArticleBlackshades: The script kiddies lament
News broke this week that a massive global raid had taken place over two days which comprised of 359 coordinated searches in 16 countries and there were apparently 80+ arrests as a result. Why? Well...
View Article50 Norweigian oil companies suffer cyber attack
Yes, I said "cyber". Yesterday 50 Norweigian businesses came under a concerted attack by parties unknown. The exact nature of the attack has not come to light just yet.
View ArticleWhy Does SQL Injection Still Exist?
After having spent the last two weeks in Asia I find myself sitting in a hotel room in Tokyo pondering something. I delivered a few talks in Singapore and in Manila and was struck by the fact that...
View ArticleTime for a ‘Flash' extinction level event
Ages ago the dinosaurs roamed the earth. All evidence demonstrates that they met with an untimely end. Much in the same vein, I firmly believe that Adobe's Flash has reached it's own extinction level...
View ArticleSecurity missives from the front lines
This is a curated collection of my own encounters as well as some that were contributed by others. If you have some gems to share please send them along or leave a comment below. I’d love to build this...
View ArticleJob hunting? White House seeking a CISO
I cannot help but to think of some memes at times. The one that has gotten lodged there today is the late Robin Williams with a great big bushy beard screaming “What year is it?”. News came out today...
View ArticleSurfing porn can lead to infections
Malware is a tiresome fact of life online. Ever since my first encounter with the Stoned virus years ago it has never ceased to be amaze me that the pace of this sort of software continues virtually...
View ArticleDrones, privacy and the war on intellect
I’ve been a fan of drones for a while now. I enjoy messing about with them and I even have my own micro drone with a camera. Now, while I saw the I enjoy playing with drones I’ve always kept a keen eye...
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