Author: Mark

We are being targeted by disinformation networks that are vastly more effective most people realise, the product of which is making people hateful, depressed, angry, polarised and much more. Nation states all across the globe are involved in a psychological war, but the tide is currently in favour of Russia […]

As its International Women’s day, I thought I’d share a post about the Women who have shaped the modern world of IT that I wouldn’t be in a career without. First up, we have Augusta Ada King – Countess of Lovelace – more commonly known as Ada Lovelace – Widely […]

A few weeks ago, I came across an article which made me rethink not only the world of IT, but the world in general. Now, typically, I don’t like writing about stuff I’ve read elsewhere without linking to said article, but in this case, I simply cannot remember where I […]

Trigger warning – this post contains the topic of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) Whilst browsing Xitter the other day, I read a post by one of the people I follow – Troy Hunt For those who don’t know about Troy –  Troy is a Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, […]

Alphabet, the parent company of Google is building a $1B data-center on the very edge of the northern part of the M25 ring-road on the outskirts of the historic town of Waltham Cross. The installation is the Google 1st data center in the UK, and will join 32 other sites […]

This month has seen Microsoft release its latest round of security and system updates, and it’s quite an important one! In the updates, Microsoft have revealed that they have patched 89 issues, 9 of which were zero-day exploits (a fix for a 10th zero-day is still being worked on, and […]

A cyber security professional needs to understand many things in order to have some level of success in defending the systems in their care – A small sample of those things include: Within those broad categories, there are many sub-topics – for example just within the communications section we have […]

In an operation spanning multiple years, and multiple jurisdictions, one of the worlds most wanted cyber criminals has finally been taken to the US to face justice for crimes committed that stretch back to 2011. Maksim Silnikau – a 38 year old Belarusian was caught in a raid on his […]

Active Cyber Defence (ACD) is the title given to a range of technologies and processes set up by the NCSC to help make the UK the safest place to live and do business online. Active Cyber Defence (ACD) seeks to reduce the harm from commodity cyber attacks by providing tools […]

A threat actor known online as USDoD has posted a data dump containing 2.7 billion records, and says that it contains the Personally Identifiable Information (PII) for all citizens of the United States, Canada, and the UK. The data appears to have originated from a company called National Public Data […]