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 …

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 …

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.

That was an ‘Uber’ Data Breach…!

What is the Uber data breach, and how did it happen?