I’ve been a fan of drones for a while now. I enjoy messing about with them and I even have my own micro drone with a camera. Now, while I saw the I enjoy playing with drones I’ve always kept a keen eye not to get video of my neighbours backyards and so forth.
Dave Lewis |
20 Apr |
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Malware is a tiresome fact of life online. Ever since my first encounter with the Stoned virus years ago it has never ceased to be amaze me that the pace of this sort of software continues virtually unabated.
Dave Lewis |
04 Apr |
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I cannot help but to think of some memes at times. The one that has gotten lodged there today is the late Robin Williams with a great big bushy beard screaming “What year is it?”. News came out today that, at long last, the White House has come to the conclusion that there is a need for a CISO.
Dave Lewis |
31 Mar |
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This is a curated collection of my own encounters as well as some that were contributed by others. If you have some gems to share please send them along or leave a comment below. I’d love to build this list out as I know there are many more out there.
Dave Lewis |
28 Aug |
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Ages ago the dinosaurs roamed the earth. All evidence demonstrates that they met with an untimely end. Much in the same vein, I firmly believe that Adobe's Flash has reached it's own extinction level event. Time for this dinosaur to quietly slip into the tar pits and be relegated to the mists of time.
Dave Lewis |
01 Aug |
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After having spent the last two weeks in Asia I find myself sitting in a hotel room in Tokyo pondering something. I delivered a few talks in Singapore and in Manila and was struck by the fact that we're still talking about SQL injection as a problem.
Dave Lewis |
31 Jul |
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Yes, I said "cyber". Yesterday 50 Norweigian businesses came under a concerted attack by parties unknown. The exact nature of the attack has not come to light just yet.
Dave Lewis |
29 Aug |
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News broke this week that a massive global raid had taken place over two days which comprised of 359 coordinated searches in 16 countries and there were apparently 80+ arrests as a result. Why? Well apparently all of the aforementioned targets had a copy of the Blackshades remote access trojan or RAT.
Dave Lewis |
21 May |
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15 May |
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13 May |
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First off, what is it? Well, for those of you who may not know, Ruby on Rails is an open source web frame work that has been around since 2003. It was first developed by David Heinemeier Hansson and has since gone on to be used in thousands of web applications such as Basecamp, Twitter and Github.
Dave Lewis |
08 May |
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Have a taste for tearing apart malware? Then you have probable played with Cuckoo Sandbox. If not, it is really time to take a poke at it. This is an open source malware analysis toolset. You can drop a suspicious file (or even one that is somewhat shifty in nature) into it and it will run tests. In no time at all it will spit out a report as to the nature of the file and what it tried to do all from the relative safety of a virtualized environment.
Dave Lewis |
06 May |
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There are some movies that are timeless in nature. They can make you laugh. They can make you cry. They can inspire the viewer. Sometimes that inspiration is, well, shall we say, suboptimal.
Dave Lewis |
06 May |
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I'm very happy to be back in London for the second year in a row to attend BSides London. This year the conference has grown in size and has attracted a great list of talent. Talks range from the likes of Stephen Bonner, Graham Sutherland and Jon Butler.
Dave Lewis |
29 Apr |
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The RCMP have managed to track down and arrest the first ne'er do well in London, Ontario. The RCMP have not indicated how they managed to puzzle out who attacked the Canada Revenue Agency. I am curious myself but, not for the same reasons. I'm curious what led a 19 year old from Southern Ontario to think that activity was acceptable.
Dave Lewis |
24 Apr |
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