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What was it like enabling Google Advanced Protection?

What was it like enabling Google Advanced Protection?

tldr; Boring.. it was really boring. It's the 27th of January, 2018. And yes, I've just signed into Google's Advanced Protection.. let's see how this goes. Fast-forward to now.. March I think ...
BeEF Dormant DOM demonstration

Dormant DOMination

| | AppSec, beef, work
Introduction In the midst of "trying to be creative", I thought I should finally pull my finger out and catch up on some work that I haven't had a chance to blog ...

Keeping Up-to-date

| | Personal, work
One of my favourite questions to ask an interviewee is "How do you keep on top of all the security news?" Sure, it's not a technical question, it's not even really much ...

Of hackers and musicians

| | Development, Personal, tools, work
What qualities do you look for when you're hiring information security professionals, and in particular ‘hackers'? I won't pretend to be an expert at this, and certainly would prefer you read material ...

How I Dumped Sublime for Vim

| | Development, Personal, tools, work
Like most people that spend a lot of time working in source code, I'm a huge fan of Sublime Text. Sure, for years @antisnatchor and @wadealcorn used to try and convince me ...

Reflections on 2015 and LinkedIn

| | Personal, security
If I were to capture 2015 with a single word it would be: transform. The family and I had started the year celebrating our daughter’s 1st birthday, always amazed and in awe ...

Facebook iOS App Scrapes Your Clipboard?

| | Development, security
I noticed yesterday that the Facebook iOS app appears to scrape your clipboard for URLs, offering to paste the URL into your next Facebook status update. You can see an example of ...

Mentors

I've taken a bit of time over the past week or so to contemplate my life and how it is I've gotten to this point in my professional career. This opportunity for ...

Collective noun for ‘hackers’

| | Hackers, security, Twitter
Sometime last year I pinged out on twitter what people thought were appropriate collective nouns for 'hackers'. There are a few that had done the rounds, the rest are collected here from ...

Thoughts on 2013

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I awoke at the start of 2013 and life was spectacular. I was a few months married (bank accounts reset), had put together a rough plan for honeymooning around the US and ...