Well thats it teaching has finished for the year and we are now on what would be our summer holidays…. The last couple of semesters have been good and I have learnt quite a bit about how to do stuff to an academic style and time management with my mentor. We have just got hand…

Do we guard and protect our critical infrastructure? or because of privatisation has it been neglected in the pursuit of profit. I am interested in how we secure these systems and how they work. There are sites out there that can teach this industrial technologies and simulate industrial control systems simulations that you can hack…

Watching the Encrochat hack documentary and I am wondering why they didnt have meadata from things like images.. I am pretty sure they would have locations and cell sites.. The police were very…. reluctant to use the information in front of them in order to get the top dogs and they got one 7.5 million…

So with the beta this weekend of Battlefield 6 those who took part in it had to enable secure boot in the UEFI settings for the motherboard. This means that the anti cheat system loads before the operating systems. This means that it loads in before any protections are loaded meaning before anti virus and…

so EA have developed a kernel level anti cheat system…. We dont know much about it obviously but I am pretty sure that memory injection techniques for changing variables like health and telemetry for cheats that highlight everybody and shoot through walls….. I have preordered the game (I know) but I have been watching people…

It would seem that chatgpt and others are indexing our prompts meaning if you have ever had a sensitive conversation with any of the big AI LLM’s then your prompts are potentially public…. I am not sure how to find them yet but am sure it would only take maybe your name and chatgpt and…

Looks like I am definitely going for red team operations in my career. I now know what needs to be done in order to get to that goal….. now am wondering if I should do the AWS AI architect course that I am planning on doing and just spend the money on OSCP, OSWE and…

Can we just block an entire country from the internet? we can block domains and mac addresses but can we just not route traffic from China. They have been proven to be persistent in our networks constantly feeding back stolen data to China. Is it against what the internet was supposed to be? an interconnected…

At what point do I have to start marketing myself. I have a linkedin with some really good connections. Anyway that is what I am currently thinking about as I have been advised to start selling myself for extra cash. I am thinking about setting up a service that will audit and secure peoples networks…

Well we already have groups of students who arent participating in the classes if they turn up at all. This makes it harder for the rest of us when others in the group do not participate in the activity. I know you can take a horse to water but you cant make it drink and…