Today I attended Scot-Cloud in Edinburgh, a free conference hosted by Digit, an independent business technology community in Scotland. Lots of conversation about GDPR, in fact it was mentioned in all of the talks and had two specific talks on it too. The first talk was by Martin Sloan of Brodies LLP Solicitors and second talk by Lilian Edwards, a … Continue reading GDPR and the Cloud
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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
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
The risks of QR codes
In my last blog post I talked about the merits of QR codes and their use in forensics. Iâm going to talk about the risks of QR codes now, as with everything, there are always issues with new technology. There are three main risks with QR codes: The QR code may point to a malicious … Continue reading The risks of QR codes
Privacy and the Law
I am currently reading Digital Evidence and Computer Crime by Eoghan Casey and chapter three - "Technology and Law" has some really interesting cases which really make you think about what is 'privacy'. The main act that gives a right to privacy in the US is the Constitutionâs 4th Amendment which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures. The couple of … Continue reading Privacy and the Law
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