UK Parliament Cyber Attack

At the end of last week, news organisations started reporting of a ‘sustained and determined attack’ against the mailboxes of the 650 members of parliament and staff. In the initial release of information it is quite clear the login portal was …

Gibraltar Cyber Security Summit

We attended the Gibraltar Cyber Security Summit this week. It’s an initiative to bring together policing departments, local authority and cyber crime related experts. Speakers from the AFP, FBI, NCA, GCHQ and others took to the stage to transfer essential …

Phishing Robots

So it turns out us humans aren’t the only ones with a few flaws when it comes to an inbound phishing email! Often uttered from the crowds at every infosec event is the dreaded cliché statement, “Well, humans are the weakest links …

Naughty Name Servers

It’s always DNS. If something has broken online the first step is normally checking what the DNS is doing. Similar when we try to discover all we can about an organisation in the recon stages of any assessment it’s also …

Will they send a SMS or won’t they?

Recently I stumbled across a publication from HMRC, it stated the forms of communications they would use to contact the tax paying public. Example messages were displayed in an attempt to ‘whitelist’ communications. Basically, if you receive correspondence that looks …

Project ‘Sender ID’

Over 100 Billion SMS messages are sent per year in the U.K., whilst this figure continues to fall due to mobile device users opting to use alternative communication mediums such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Signal – we are still …

2017 and Beyond

It’s been 2 years to the day since The AntiSocial Engineer was founded; The seasonal timing and also the fact we seem to be doing enough right to pay the bills have made us sit down and question where we …

How to Handle A Data Breach

To a modern business, a data breach can have devastating effects. We have seen TalkTalk hastily bungle, Sage coyly dawdle and much more generally mess it up, it’s got to change. We don’t spend all day hunting these elusive beasts either, but we have had …

Sage UK Payroll Data Breach

Personal details and bank account information for employees of as many as 300 large UK companies may have been compromised as part of a data breach at Sage, a UK accountancy software group. August 11th, 2016 Sage UK Payroll services started …