After ~19 years of a fully home-built website, I have moved to WordPress for the convenience. All my older posts will be gradually moved across too. Hopefully I will update the blog a little more often 😉
GDPR and the Cloud
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
Nudge Theory
A few weeks ago I was at an ISACA/ISC2 event where Chris Ulliott spoke about usable security. He argued that we (technology creators in general) ask far too much of the general public to be able to understand and use technology securely. I agree – asking any internet user to be able to spot a … Continue reading Nudge Theory
“Women in Technology”
Two weeks ago I was at an ISACA Scotland Chapter event where they mentioned an upcoming ‘Women in IT’ 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”
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 – 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 ‘the Irari rules for declaring a cyberattack sophisticated’. The summary article can be found here, and the conference slide pack here. The main message is … Continue reading What makes malware “sophisticated”?
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