Punycode as described in rfc 3492 “is a simple and efficient transfer encoding syntax designed for use with Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA). It uniquely and reversibly transforms a Unicode string into an ASCII string...
The UK Parliament has suffered what it is said to be a cyber attack. The MP are not able to access their parliamentary email account remotely although this could be due as part of the measure to limit the attack. “The Houses of Parliament have...
What appears to be an a major IT related incident has forced British Airways to cancel all flights from Britain’s two biggest airports Heathrow and Gatwick. At this time the company stated this is not related to Cyber security. ...
A massive ransomware attack is under way and has hit major orgonisations. So far I am aware of the UK being hit particularly bad. It is a ransomware with the ability to propergate with the vixtim’s help and this means once a machines is infected the...
Security researchers from the Switzerland discovered HP shipped some laptops with a keylogger. The code is part of the audio driver software which allows playback of audio sounds. Unfortunately this captures every keypress you make and saves it...
A look into why we choose the password we choose and what this reveals about us. A lot than you might think. If you ignore password managers – which combat linking the password to the individual by randomizing it, a password is more than...
A good read about the status of Anti-Virus testing market. My take on this is test what you are buying. After all that is why products come mostly with a month worth of trial. Do take advantage of the trial and most importantly conduct your own...
On the 28 of March the US House of representative gave the green light to the Internet Service Providers to monetise your browsing habits. Obviously this is not a good news for most of people and angered the security community. This has forced...
Encryption is in the news again. The UK Home Secretary expressed her frustration over encryption and in particular End To End encryption when it was revealed the man who carried out the terror attack at Westminster last used WhatsApp. ...
Google has been working on the possibility of hash collision for a while. Their work focused on SHA1. They have just released the below blog post announcing the first SHA1 collision. Of course the security community has seen this coming for a number...
