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Consumer Oriented Two-Factor Authentication and the Challenges
After Facebook, Google, Microsoft and PayPal, Apple has started offering two-factor authentication to help its customers secure their Apple IDs against hacking. Initially, two-step verification is being offered in the U.S., UK, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand. Additional countries will be added over time, per Apple’s support website. Read more...
HACKER NEWS »
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Syrian Electronic Army Have Been Busy Boys
06 May 2013
It has been a busy couple of months for a hacking collective calling themselves the “Syrian Electronic Army” (SEA). Targeting mostly media organisations Twitter accounts and websites the hacktivists have managed to claim the scalps of some high profile media companies. Read more... -
Hacker Justice Against Alleged Rapists
03 Jan 2013
Yesterday we reported on the alleged rape of a 16 yr old girl from Steubenville High School. KnightSec an offshoot of the hacktivist group Anonymous have declared war on the alleged rapists. Today a VERY disturbing video has come to light on the Local Leaks website, shared on Vimo, where students are discussing the alleged rape. Read more... -
Hacker Justice Against Alleged Rapists
02 Jan 2013
The hacker collective KnightSec initiated an attack, dubbed Operation Roll Red Roll (#OpRollRedRoll), on an Ohio High School Football Team's website after the alleged gang rape of a 16-year-old girl by the team's players. Read more... -
The Common mistakes of "Anonymous" Hackers
15 Dec 2012
Nerdo, known in the real world as Christopher Weatherhead, a 22 year old male, studying at Nottingham University, was busted earlier this year for allegedly taking part in the Denial of Service (DDOS) attack on PayPal that he allegedly conducted as part of the Anonymous Op, "Operation Payback". A operation launched by the hacktivists in support of WikiLeaks when the PayPal site stop taking payments. Read more... -
PayPal Should Be Pissed!
06 Nov 2012
Yesterday was a fail day for mainstream media and the blogosphere. It was widely reported that Anonymous had hacked thousands of account details from PayPal, instantly slamming the organisation with a reputational hit. Who wants to send money through an organisation that can’t keep your details secure? Read more... -
Owned! Hacker/Spook Exposed
31 Oct 2012
The Empire 1 – Hacker 0. The Georgian CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) have caught a hacker, which they believe works for the Russian Official Security Agencies, so a spook, with his hand in the cookie jar. Read more... -
Has Facebook Been Hacked?
28 Oct 2012
It seems something is up over at our blue themed website overloads, Facebook. Bogomil Shopov a blogger is reporting that he purchased close to a million Facebook account details, including, the Users email address, which you need to be able to brute force the account password and break in to the account, the User profile link and the user First and Last name, all for the grand price of, wait for it, five bucks! Read more... -
Fancy Network Access to a Fortune 500 Company?
23 Oct 2012
How would you like access to a Fortune 500 company network, to you know, do whatever you like. Yeah? Okay, that will be USD$5. Read more...
CYBER SECURITY »
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Kaspersky Says "No!"
23 July 2012
Kaspersky Anti-Virus users today were waking up to no internet! An update from the Anti-Virus vendor cut off internet access for users. Presumably with no Internet access your risk profile was significantly improved, however users were none too happy to find they could not check in to the Facebook to see what the Ex-Boyfriend/Girlfriend was up to. Read more... -
Plod Stops Chasing the Climategate Hackers
23 July 2012
If you were responsible, rest easy my son, as the UK plod has shelved the investigation in to who hacked the computers at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU). Read more...
TECH NEWS »
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Cool Technology to Fight Child Abuse
06 May 2013
The Spanish organisation Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk Foundation (ANAR) have come up with a very innovative way to get their message across to their target audience. The advert uses lenticular printing, resulting in a different ad depending on your perspective. Read more... -
The Four Best Books to Learn Java Programming
06 May 2013
I have been a programmer for going on twenty years. I started with Basic, Fortran and a bit of Small Talk. Mixed in there were the more popular C and C++. Over the years I have kept up my knowledge learning C# and Visual Basic, pretty much be programming in Visual Studio for about the last decade or so. However recently I had to learn Java for a big contract I was working on. Read more... -
First Ever Website Rides Again!
30 Apr 2013
The first Web Address, with a Hyper Text Markup page was http://info.cern.ch. Hyper Text Markup Language, or HTML as it is now known, along with the Hyper Text Transport Protocol, Web Server and Web Browser, was invented by British physicist Tim Berners-Lee, back in 1989, while working at CERN. Read more... -
Handjob Caught on Google Street View
28 Apr 2013
A hooker (we assume), at the very least a young lady that likes to frequent the back alleys of Manchester was caught on Googles Street View handing (ahem) out a handie to a punter/boyfriend. Read more... -
InfoSec Done For Another Year!
27 Apr 2013
InfoSec is done for another year, always a huge IT Security event, not just for the UK but for Europe. As with every year there were some key themes running through the event. This year the big talking points were Advanced Persistent Threats, Cloud, BYOD and Encryption solutions. Read more... -
DNS Brings Down Hotmail!
23 Jan 2013
Reports from users across the web that hotmail.com and outlook.com are down. Currently the services have been offline for around 15 minutes. Read more... -
Best Windows Server 2012 Books
11 Jan 2013
The reality is that servers drive the Internet, as well as most corporate networks. The two big players in the server operating system space are Microsoft and Linux. Yes Google is taking over how user connect to the internet, with mobile devices, phones and pads, out selling desktops in the last three months of 2012. Read more... -
Black Ops II Prestige Master Hackers to be Reset
03 Jan 2013
An interesting screen capture turned up on Reddit. Twitter user Max (@Irqendeiner) asked David Vonderhaar (@DavidVonderhaar), game director of Black Ops II, “There are so many guys who glitched/hacked to master prestige on PS3. Any chance that they are getting reset?” Read more...
INFORMATION SECURITY »
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Consumer Oriented Two-Factor Authentication and the Challenges
30 Apr 2013
After Facebook, Google, Microsoft and PayPal, Apple has started offering two-factor authentication to help its customers secure their Apple IDs against hacking. Initially, two-step verification is being offered in the U.S., UK, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand. Additional countries will be added over time, per Apple’s support website. Read more... -
Are You a Target for an APT (Advanced Persistent Threat)?
28 Apr 2013
In a previous article I explained what an APT looked like. Most organisations I talk to believe they are not likely to be a target of an APT, the logic being that they have nothing of interest that a foreign government would need. Read more... -
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
28 Apr 2013
One of the big themes of InfoSec 2013 was APT’s. A number of talks specifically targeted (excuse the pun) this topic. The perception is that APT’s are state sponsored attacks, this perception is driven by the cost and resources required to implement this type of attack. The reality is however that if you have digital assets that are worth going after, you are at risk of this type of attacks. Read more... -
The Changing Threat Landscape
05 Feb 2013
I currently work for a security vendor that has over 25 years of Information Security experience, a significant majority of that experience in the Anti-Malware, Anti-Virus space. Having seen the virus distribution industry (nefarious as it is) grow from a new virus a month to over 100,000 new viruses a day, and the hacking culture morph from a teen hobbyist activity to a full fledge career choice (nefarious as it is); it is fair to say we have seen a lot and we have made it our purpose, for our existence, to understand the evolving threat landscape. Read more... -
Anti-Virus is Dead, Well According to a Competing Vendor
03 Jan 2013
Imperva have released a whitepaper on the supposed effectiveness of Anti-Virus products. The conclusion? Anti-Virus products are less effective against malware it has not seen previously. Read more... -
Information Commissioner Office Gets Some Teeth
28 Oct 2012
The UK Information Commissioner Office is starting to ramp up its efforts to ensure organisations are taking the Data Protection Act seriously. In 2012 alone the ICO has issued over eighteen organisations or individual penalties with an average cost of over £125,000 and a total cost of over £2,200,000. Read more...
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