My rambling rambles on sec stuff
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 the only hurdle was that apparently I had signed into YouTube on the TV. I don't even really remember doing that. Apart from that, this hadn't changed my usage of my gmail account (which I effectively live…
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 about. Especially as Michele has progressed from bugging me about pushing up this code, to simply ignoring me entirely (still love you dude :P). So I've taken some time over the past couple of weeks to put together my thoughts on…
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 a cultural question. But given 1 or 2 minutes, I think this is a quick and interesting way to get an insight into how an individual seeks out information, and how this may influence their problem solving. Yes, it's often that…
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 from both Cory Scott and Thomas Ptacek on hiring talent if you haven't already. But I think I have a fairly good radar for identifying people that have the knack for being great hackers. Similar to…
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 to shift to RubyMine , or other IDEs, particularly when working on things like www.beefproject.com where debugging issues would get significantly easier. But as most of my work was done on an older model 11" Macbook Air, as…
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 watching her continue to grow. Tenille was still re-integrating into her work-life pattern as a working mum, and we were surrounded by our best friends who were also undertaking incredible life changes, such as marriages,…
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 this at the bottom of this post. I wasn't alone in thinking that this felt a little creepy, similar sentiment appears to have popped up on reddit . So what does this mean, and what can we do? Well, firstly, there isn't a…
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 reflection came about in the calm before the storm. In a week or so, my small family and I are jumping on an airplane to relocate to California; stepping away from business -ownership and consulting life in Perth, Australia, to join an app…
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 various people. I don't know why I didn't post this last year, but the conversation came up again on twitter (thanks @wireghoul ).. so in no particular order, here they are! A Cloud @mikeforbes An Array @wince84 &…
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 even started executing the purchasing of flights etc (bank accounts reset take two). I had also recently had some really interesting discussions with @WadeAlcorn regarding a potential "little" side-project, and of course all the…