The recent article in Wired Magazine (http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/) relating to a sophisticated attack against a specific individual that led to the closure of their GMail Account, compromise of their Twitter account, Amazon Account and Apple iCloud Service (which the attacker then used to wipe the data from the victim's iPhone, iPad and Mac), highlights the need for strong multi-factor authentication. (more…)

The recent attack on, and compromise of LinkedIn and their password data has highlighted the need for strong authentication practices, and a lack of awareness among certain developers of security best-practice. (more…)

With its ever-increasing number of users, the Internet has become the primary communication mechanism for many individuals around the world. Governments who wish to maintain the ability to protect their citizens from harm need to develop evermore sophisticated methods of capturing and analysing data flowing through the ever-increasing numbers of social networks, online chat and Internet telephony services. (more…)

A couple of days ago, you may have noticed that our website was offline. The site itself was still running (the servers were still up), it was just that our domain registrar, 123-reg had suffered a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) atttack, which they attempted to stop by making various changes to their core network configuration. (more…)

I had an interesting experience last week - I was asked if I could help someone figure out their wireless network key. I started thinking that I would need to crack the key (as they couldn't remember it, and didn't have it recorded anywhere), then I thought "it's probably stored in the administration interface somewhere, and that would be the best place to look", so I told them to access the admin interface and look for the key. (more…)