Security Bytes

Certificate Based Authentication

2nd Factor or Not?

I took January off for non security based pursuits and I’ve been a bit quiet on here as of late, however I had an interesting (YMMV) conversation, admittedly it fell out of a chat around the eminently dull PCI-DSS…

Security Vendors and Social Responsibility

Or why their products should be priced more affordably

Vulnhub: Depth VM Walkthrough

Time to go deep(ish)!

Quick One: Stop Calling it ‘Identity Theft’

This is just a quick post inspired by some comments that I’ve seen recently on Twitter following some mega-breaches.

The term ‘Identity Theft’ implies, and its usage accepts, that the person whose identity is being stolen is the…

Equifax Shenanigans

As we enter the breach era, the sheer scale of the Equifax breach almost fails to register or most people; hundreds-of-millions of people being impacted is unimaginable for us. But one number — which seemed to be swallowed up by the wider story — was 44 million Brits are likely to be affected…

Vulnhub: Ew Skuzzy VM walkthrough

I’ve been slowly working my way through this VM in my spare time over the last few of weeks, and I…

Billu: b0x VM

A Vulnerable VM walkthrough:

MalwareTechs Arrest— A view on the Security Community and its reaction.

Jerk or knee jerk?

I’d like to talk about the recent arrest of @Malwaretech / Markus Hutchins, and more specifically the security community reaction to it. For the…