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An Elaborate Employment Con in the Internet Age
The story is an old one, but the tech gives it a bunch of new twists: Gemma Brett, a 27-year-old designer from west London, had only been working at Madbird for two ...
On Financial Fraud
There are some good lessons in this article on financial fraud: That's how we got it so wrong. We were looking for incidental breaches of technical regulations, not systematic crime. And the ...
Create a Team for Audit Analytics? Part 3
In the previous post, Create a Team for Audit Analytics? Part 2, I explored the pros and cons of expecting all auditors to develop a level of data and analytic proficiency. These ...
Create a Team for Audit Analytics? Part 2
In the previous post, Create a Team for Audit Analytics? Part 1, I explored the pros and cons of developing an analytics team. This team consists of analytic auditors who are dedicated ...
Create a Team for Audit Analytics? Part 1
Once your audit team has proven the value of doing analytics consistently, the next question is: Do we create an analytics team and have the team do all (or the majority) of ...
Solving the Security B-Sides London 2012 Web Hacking Challenge
This year (2012) I wrote a web hacking challenge for BSides London. Rather than write a lengthy blog post about how to solve it (when others have already covered it), I thought ...