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Historical Hacks: Cliff And The Cuckoo's Egg

20 Apr 2024 6 minute read 1 comment Investigator515

This hack happened early and was instrumental in shaping the cyber domain. If you aren’t a medium member, you can read with no paywall via substack Covering historical hacks and writing them up is pretty interesting. From the early days of the intern...

Task Force Gives Terrible Advice About Ransomware

17 Apr 2024 1 minute read 6 comments Matthew Rosenquist

I couldn’t help myself, I had to rant about this! A ‘security research’ group is recommending against banning ransomware payments, which would eradicate these attacks from occurring, and instead want money to be spent on communications campaigns, ga...

Guardians of Academia: Battling Cyber Threats in Higher Education

17 Apr 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Matthew Rosenquist

Donna Kidwell, CISO of Arizona State University, is one of the best and brightest in our community! I am continually amazed at her insights, strategic focus, and ability to creatively tackle some of the biggest problems in cybersecurity.  Today, in...

Is Biometrics Fit for KYC?

12 Apr 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Debesh Choudhury

Biometrics is convenient but lowers security. Biometrics recognition is inherently probabilistic and can't yield deterministic "yes/no" results like text passwords/PINs. I created a GIF using the title text and an image by Biometrics may compromis...

Radio Hackers: RFID & Access Controls Systems

7 Apr 2024 6 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

Sometimes, all you need to get started is an android powered smartphone If you aren’t a medium member, you can read with no paywall via substack We strive to provide informative articles, however, it is important for users to ensure their research is...

Zero Day: Understanding The Exploits

30 Mar 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

Understanding why Zero Day Exploits are so devastating.  If you aren’t a medium member, you can read with no paywall via substack If you’ve been following our series on Historical Hacks, you’ve probably noticed that through this series we’ve looked a...

Cybersecurity & Small Business: Best Practices

24 Mar 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

Cybersecurity in small organisations can be a headache if you don’t follow best practices.  If you aren’t a medium member, you can read with no paywall via substack Over the last few years, we’ve seen an increase in data breaches and hacks that have...

A call for sanity in security policy in the public sector-- or -- Stop banning things you don't understand!

22 Mar 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Archangel

Friends both digital and analogue:   Though this article pertains to a particular piece of legislation in Canada, I assure you that wherever you are your government is just as riddled with those who either are ignorant or feign ignorance and pass non...

Privacy On Tor: Where Data Goes To Die

17 Mar 2024 7 minute read 1 comment Investigator515

If you aren’t a medium member, you can read with no paywall via substack As the new year kicked off, we started with a new focus on the dark web which included a look at its history and some of the moments that shaped its usage and reputation. While...

Analysis: Probe Requests & Your Privacy

10 Mar 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

In our connected world, where Wi-Fi and Bluetooth have become a ubiquitous part of our daily activities, we often overlook or fail to understand the privacy implications of the devices we carry on our person. Considering those devices have the abilit...