It’s been 2 years to the day since The AntiSocial Engineer Limited 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 take it from here. It sure has been educational and part of our future plans came from a reflection on… Read more →
For nearly a year we have had a tale we’ve told to friends and business associates. The tale involves TalkTalk and how one day we found the data breach, alerted them and sparked the controversy that we all know to this day as ‘The TalkTalk Breach of 2015’. It’s been a funny year, with one NDA or another we’ve sometimes even… Read more →
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 notifying customers of a data breach effecting their staff payroll systems. A rather generic statement was believed to be provided… Read more →
So it might not be immediately apparent but when I am not hacking things and complaining about the lack of security in businesses, I also do mundane things. I tidy the house, I go shopping for soy milk and vegetables, I have recently adopted running and when i’ve done all the basics of life, I even try to complete the… Read more →
Original article by IT Governance: here So a while back I was interviewed by Lewis Morgan from the IT Governance Blog and thought i’d share this on the site. It is a little tongue in cheek reading it back actually! But genuine none the less. First, let’s quickly cover the basics: what is social engineering? Well, a good question straight… Read more →
When considering the security threats your organisation will encounter you would be forgiven if the humble bin slipped your mind. Every instance of this invisible cyber, hacking, scare story we receive on the media these days is referring to ‘complex and sustained attacks’. The innocent rubbish receptacles definitely don’t seem complex… But there is a wealth of knowledge hidden amongst… Read more →
