How often do you get connection requests from people you don’t recognise? — I have 6 LinkedIn accounts. Amy, VP of investment banking for a leading bank. 1874 connections working in financial services. Another, Kim, working as an engineer for a top-tier technology company. 973 connections. And counting. And the most fruitful, Sarah, Lucy and Louise. All IT recruiters. 2983 connections between them.

This is only small part of Iran’s cyber ability ! We’re always ready. — Just kidding. We’re still here. I remember as a 10 year old playing around with how computers and the internet worked on my Dad’s computer. It quickly became clear defacing websites, especially at that time, was not hard. Even for a 10 year old. Similarly, with the amount of insecure…

A handful of ThreatPipes modules you can use for OSINT investigations — Star Wars, Frozen 2, (Don’t F**k With) Cats… How many of the biggest film releases did you see last month? My opinion. All were good. Particularly Don’t F**k With Cats. Most of my family are now OSINT investigators, plugging images into Tineye and extracting the EXIF data to map them…

Your DHL package needs collecting from the depot — It was the night before Christmas… OK. That’s enough of that. Has anyone noticed an increase in phishing emails from logistics companies recently? As the last minute Christmas rush takes hold, many of us have probably attempted to get those last minute online orders in on-time. Sadly I didn’t. I’ll…

Here’s what happened next — “Are you crazy?”, you’re thinking. Not entirely. We’re all well aware of the proliferation of identity theft. In only two years, there have been 4 attempts to use my credit card fraudulently. The cyber-crime headline writers are not struggling for work. A few weeks ago I purchased an anonymous, prepaid…

And other badly configured software exposed to the world — Did you lock the front door? Yes. Did you turn off the iron? Let me check. Did you destroy that old cloud server you provisioned for testing? Errrr. Did you get around to securing that software properly? Hold my beer. Two weeks ago we launched the ThreatPipes App for Splunk. …

Not just for a second… or two — In heated arguments I’ll often say things, that no sooner have left my mouth, I regret. As emotional beings, we often say things we don’t mean. The internet is a hotbed for this emotional communication, without the regret. People use their online identities to share 240 characters they would never…

And it’s not only because your email administrator is watching — When I browse porn sites, I don’t sign up. In fact, I’ll open up an incognito browser so that Chrome doesn’t log the history locally (I know Google is still tracking me). Why? I can tell you from experience it’s embarrassing when PornHub shows on the “last viewed” page… as…

Exploitable by everyone. — Would you be surprised if I told that, if you use a MiFi or WiFi tether, someone could be tracking your location? Well… surprise! WiGLE is a one-stop-shop for user-reported wireless network data. Users upload information on their phones, tablets, and laptops using WiFi-sniffing tools or WiGLE’s own Android app. …