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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...

The Security Mindset: Read to Learn

27 Apr 2024 5 minute read 3 comments Investigator515

You’re either born with it or you learn it, but you’ll need it to succeed. Hacking and Social Engineering are in fact, cut from slices of the same cake. While being different skills there is a distinct overlap and it’s no lie to say that good Ha...

Is Cyber Threat Intelligence Worthless?

23 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Matthew Rosenquist

I was recently asked “What do intelligence reports do? They appear worthless!” I found the question both funny and ironic. Unfortunately, I had to gently deliver some uncomfortable news. There is a fundamental difference between intelligence and the...

What The Tech?! VHS & VCR

15 Jul 2024 7 minute read 10 comments Investigator515

In a digital world, it’s easy to forget how vital media storage once was If you aren’t a medium member, you can read with no paywall via substack As we’ve moved through our technical evolution, it's more than fair to say that we’ve seen substantial c...

Apple reportedly cuts Apple Vision Pro production amidst slower-than-expected sales

24 Apr 2024 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

According to a new report, Apple is now expecting to deliver 400,000-450,000 units of the Apple Vision Pro in 2024. This is a 50 percent cut when compared to previous predictions of 800,000 units per year. They sold around 200,000 units so far, but...

Massive CrowdStrike IT Outage Has Global Implications for Cybersecurity

19 Jul 2024 2 minute read 1 comment Matthew Rosenquist

The world experienced a digital pandemic of systems going offline and displaying the dreaded Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), due to a catastrophic failure caused by a flawed file in an update to CrowdStrike cybersecurity customers. The impacts...

Sharing Tectum Development Updates

6 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments shohana1

Image Source Who is there not yet familiar with Tectum ? It should be none but still I would love to talk about this world's fastest blockchain and features with the introduction of it. First time I learn about Tectum and SoftNote from this platform...

Historical Hacks: The Citibank Hack (1994)

17 Jun 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

This hack exploited dial-up and weak security to steal millions. If you aren’t a medium member, you can read with no paywall via substack We’ve talked much about how the earlier days of the internet were a very different time, especially with regard...

The World is Spinning Faster -Are We Heading for Disaster?

26 Aug 2024 5 minute read 5 comments rah

This is an updated version of an article I originally wrote for my website in 2015 It is an undeniable fact that the world is getting smaller and faster. Technology is affecting the way we interact with others and how we tackle tasks and challenges...

The Raspberry Pi & Sigint: Selecting Your Sensors

10 Aug 2024 5 minute read 1 comment Investigator515

In this previous article, we looked at configuring your SD card to run Dragon OS on the Raspberry Pi. This distro, which is optimized for signals intelligence comes packed full of software packages that will help you find, record and analyse signals...