Two weeks ago I was at an ISACA Scotland Chapter event where they mentioned an upcoming âWomen in ITâ event to be held in November. This is all great stuff to get more women involved in security / IT in general but I feel events like these are advertised to the wrong people - I highly doubt … Continue reading “Women in Technology”
Author: lowmanio
Smartphone location tracking
Another great talk at the mobile cyber security conference a few weeks ago was by Glenn Wilkinson who talked about his software called snoopy which is able to track and profile mobile devices based on their wifi. He has a very cool drone which he flies over areas to probe the mobile phones in the area below. Sadly no … Continue reading Smartphone location tracking
Smartphone SMS ‘hacking’
On Wednesday I went to a mobile cyber security conference held at the National Museum of Scotland organised by the Scottish Business Resilience Centre. One of the most interesting talks was given by Odd Helge Rosberg (@ohrosberg). Odd talked about the multiple operating systems (OS) in smartphones; which at first I was surprised at, but actually makes … Continue reading Smartphone SMS ‘hacking’
I’m on Forensics Lunch!
Last week I got invited to take part in Forensic Lunch to talk about Foreman, my open source case management project! https://www.youtube.com/embed/o7uSp8XVGLQ
4th International Conference on Cyber Security & Education
On Friday I went to the 4th International Conference on Cyber Security and Education, held at the Scottish Police College in Tullillan Castle. There were loads of really interesting talks and I think the only let down was the lack of abstracts/summaries of each talk; so often I was blindly going into a talk in one … Continue reading 4th International Conference on Cyber Security & Education
Microsoft Edge Forensics
With Windows 10 comes Microsoft Edge â the replacement for the much scorned Internet Explorer. Many articles are saying that Edge is better, faster and safer and compares to the likes of Google Chrome. But how does it store the user's web history? In the good old days IE stored everything in index.dat files. Chrome & Firefox moved away from … Continue reading Microsoft Edge Forensics
What makes malware “sophisticated”?
Most new articles on high profile cyberattacks call these attacks sophisticated, but are they really? At the RSA 2015 conference a few days ago, researchers Ira Winkler and Araceli Treu Gomes, wrote âthe Irari rules for declaring a cyberattack sophisticatedâ. The summary article can be found here, and the conference slide pack here. The main message is … Continue reading What makes malware “sophisticated”?
Malware Steganography
6 years ago (yikes!) I wrote about image steganography as a concept. At the moment there are a couple of pieces of malware that use steganography, such as Vawtrak (aka Neverquest) and ZeuS, to hide the command and control servers (C&C) or configuration files in images. This means that the malware does not need to contain a … Continue reading Malware Steganography
Sewing for total beginners
In the New Year I began a beginnerâs dress making course because I want to make good use of my amazing sewing machine and make some nice clothes. The main thing Iâve learnt so far is that sewing isnât as daunting as I thought it was, and following a pattern is much easier than it … Continue reading Sewing for total beginners
Board Game Foamcore Inserts
I love board games but sometimes the amount of bits you need to play is ridiculous. Take Terra Mystica, a strategic resource management game set in a fantasy world. It has 593 individual pieces comprising of coins, terrain tiles, various tokens, buildings, meeple, scoring titles and cards. This means the game weighs a hefty 2.1 kg! Luckily the creators … Continue reading Board Game Foamcore Inserts
