Tuesday 11 December 2012

So, you take a USB TV Tuner, an install of Flightgear and suddenly you are flying the skies above an ATC building.

Do not try this at home

Brilliant talk at Defcon 20 

Thursday 6 December 2012

Ars Technica totals up the amount of financial damage caused by the newest variation of the Zeus Trojan .

Eurograbber has netted criminals 47 Million Dollars from European web users.

It is amazing to think that it is so successful considering the lengthy process required to inject the malware into the victim's Android or Blackberry phone.

Friday 30 November 2012

Good work on Smartphones and Pen testing


Wednesday 28 November 2012

Dead Drops meet Hacksaws

Maybe this guy should have thought about this before he started putting USB keys into walls for everyone to access.

What is stopping folks from chucking a little bit of Malware on there like the USB Hacksaw?

Remember the digital landscape has some nasty places.

Wednesday 3 October 2012


NIST Selects Winner of Secure Hash Algorithm

Congrats to Keccak

Small, elegant, multi-platform and decent performance. Looking forward to checking this one out.

Tuesday 2 October 2012

I love it when folks take a good hack and improve it.

One of the pentesters for my current employers decided to do just that.

Great little hack, it reminds me of the USB Hacksaw hack from years ago.

Going to a hotel using Onity locks? Take one of these - a dry-wipe marker that opens hotel doors.

Thursday 13 September 2012

Great Series on encryption

It is great when one of these series come along.

I would recommend to anyone wanting to learn about encryption.

Sunday 19 August 2012

Facebook reveals it's Oregon Data Centres

I love data centres.

The hum of the fans, the whirring of the servers, always have appealed.

This place is stunning. Facebook have a great set up. This is really is a next generation approach to big data and big networks.


Saturday 21 July 2012

This is a beautiful device.

Combine a powerful intrusive piece of hardware and stunningly ingenious form factor.

Social engineering expressed in plastic.

Tuesday 5 June 2012

Four Critical Security Flaws

I love it when companies are this honest about their security breaches.

Usually this stuff is only gained through the large significant breaches through court reports and intense scrutiny by journalists.

It is this transparency that allows smaller organisations to lock down their systems.

I find it interesting how it was through third party individual authentication security weaknesses that the breach occurred.