New Humble Bundle: “Hacking for the Holidays” – December 2018

What is ‘Humble Bundle’? Humble Bundle is a distribution platform selling games, ebooks, software, and other digital content. Since Humble’s founding in 2010, they have been supporting charity (that’s where the “Humble” comes into it) while providing packaged digital content to customers (“Bundle”). The core of the “philosophy” is flexible pricing. When you buy a bundle, you can choose the price you …

Humble Bundle – December 2018

I managed to get my hands on the “Cybersecurity by Packt” humble bundle of books! Here’s what the purchase contained, and why you should keep an eye out for the next offer!

CompTIA Security+ Certified

I recently passed the CompTIA Security+ Exam, and thought I'd share how I prepared... hopefully it might help others thinking about earning the certification. ExperienceCompTIA recommends at least 2 years experience in IT, plus having the CompTIA IT Fundamentals, A+, and Network+ certifications. I had none of that. You don't NEED those things to book …

I Was Smished…

So, over the past week, I've received two quite interesting SMS phishing messages (also known as Smishing). I thought it would be worthwhile going through what I found as a result of the attempts to get my payment details, in the hope someone reads this and thinks twice about clicking unsolicited links. It happened like …

Distribution Fraud – Fake University Orders

Fraudsters are imitating UK university email addresses to defraud UK and European supply companies. The fraudsters are registering domains that are, at first glance, similar to genuine university domains: xxxxacu- uk.org, xxxxuk-ac.org, xxxacu.co.uk. These domains are used to contact suppliers and order high value goods such as IT equipment and pharmaceutical chemicals in the name …

Timehop, the popular social media ’memories’ app, suffers data breach

Timehop has disclosed a security breach that has compromised the personal data (names and email addresses) of 21 million users. Around a fifth of the affected users — or 4.7M — have also had a phone number that was attached to their account breached in the attack. The service, which plugs into users’ social media accounts …

Costa Coffee / Premier Inn Parent Company Suffers Data Breach

Whitbread, the parent company of businesses including Costa Coffee and Premier Inn, has suffered a data breach which exposed the personal information of people who had applied for jobs at its portfolio companies. News Article - InfoSecurity Magazine

CESG Certified CyberSecurity Professional (CCP)

Learn what it means to be a Certified Cyber Security Professional, and how to gain this certification.

Top 8 Cyber Security Podcasts

My list of the 8 best Cyber Security podcasts that you can listen and learn from for free!

New Website Launch for Cyber Essentials

The National Cyber Security Centre has launched its new Cyber Essentials website.