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Welcome to Friday, and Cybersecurity Awareness Month. In October, security professionals spend the month raising awareness about cybersecurity and posting tips on social media about online safety.
What’s that coming over the hill? Is it a MOBster, is it a MOBster!?
Estimated difficulty: 💜💜💜💜🤍 Welcome back to the MOBster series! The last post I published, covered the different aspects of an APK file – otherwise known as an app. This post I want to take some of these principles a step further and look at the possible effects of a misconfigured Continue Reading
Hax and Furious: An Introduction to CAN Bus Hacking with ICSim
Estimated difficulty: 💜💜💜💜🤍 Recently I have been approached by many folks on how to get started with automotive hacking. After completing my dissertation in automotive hacking (and achieving a whopping 90% – yippee!) I decided to write this blog post as an introduction into the one of the many ways Continue Reading
Subnetting IPv4 – TL;DR
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Every time I attend a course and someone tries to explain subnetting to me, they pretty much un-teach me it and I have to go away and re-learn how it works.
What in the APK?!
Estimated difficulty: 💜💜💜🤍🤍 This week I wanted to write the first post of a mini mobile application reverse engineering series! There has been a lot of attention in the news about apps such as TikTok and the COVID-19 NHS track and trace app, where they have been shown to have Continue Reading
Locked Out: What is Ransomware?
Estimated difficulty: 💜🤍🤍🤍🤍 Ransomware can be a costly attack to organisations of all sizes. Recently Garmin fell victim to a ransomware attack, with reported ransoms of up to US$10 million in exchange to reinstate company files. According to a The State of Ransomware 2020 by Sophos, the global average cost Continue Reading
Binary, Hex, Base 64, Oh My!
Estimated difficulty: 💚💚💚 Hey Securiteenies! This week we’re covering a few common numerical systems in the technology world – mostly because they’re really cool, but also because you might come across these in the wild sometime and it’s useful to know how they work and understand what they mean. We’ve Continue Reading
Pi Projects – Flashing Kali Linux
Estimated difficulty: 💚💚💚 Welcome to my first blog post for Securiteenies! We’ve created a difficulty rating based on a 3 heart system. Since the summer holidays have kicked off, we’d like to help you learn some fun skills over your lock-down break. This post was inspired by a question asking Continue Reading
I Write Policies Not Tragedies: An Intro to Security Management
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Chances are, if you study or work in Information Technology, or specifically the realm of Information Security, you’ve heard of security management. Security management, though broad, is pretty nuanced and encompasses every domain of security in one way or another – this post will cover at a high level what some areas of security management are, (we’ll look at these in more individual detail in later posts) and briefly what some of the problems are that organisations face with security management.
Grounded: A High-level Overview on Aviation Industry Security
Estimated difficulty: 💜💜💜💜💜 For the folks that follow me on Twitter, you may remember me exclaiming for help a few months back for information on the security within the aviation industry for my Information Assurance (IA) assignment. Firstly, a huge thank you to everyone that reached out – applying professional Continue Reading