What’s A WAF

To put it simply, a WAF is a Web Application Firewall. It can help to fill in the security gaps which a traditional firewall can’t.

Keeping Safe On Linkedin

Linkedin offers a mixture of job opportunities and social media to help you connect with people in the same industry as you. It allows us to somewhat sell ourselves and have the jobs come to us. It also allows us to store our education and job history as if you are anything like me, I … Continue reading Keeping Safe On Linkedin →

Purple-Pages – Extension

Purple-Pages was designed to assist Security Engineers with their day to day activity......

Personal Passwords At Work

Although many big companies like Microsoft are trying to eradicate the need for passwords, they are still heavily used to secure our accounts and systems. These accounts and systems can be for personal use or for work......

Useful Sites To Help Identify A Phish

Below are a few sites which can help you identify if the site or email in question is a phish/fake....

DoH – DNS over HTTPS

Seeing the little padlock next to the URL is starting become the norm when surfing the internet. Site owners are starting to make the effort to implement better security controls in order to secure their site. Even malicious parties are bothering to do......

Should We Give Users Local Admin Rights?

A common debate in cyber security is "can a user have admin rights to their machine?" Personally, I've always been on the side of no but recently been I've been torn. Hence why I'm now brain dumping on my blog.....

Bypassing 2FA With Cookies!

If you have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled on your account, you can’t be compromised, right? Well, not exactly. As technology advances, so do the attackers. Phishing attacks have become more sophisticated and attackers are finding ways to bypass 2FA. The reason why is because of the delicious cookies stored in your browser. Session cookies are a way to show the server that the user has already authenticated. This includes passing the 2FA.......

Using Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)

Recently, Netflix’s ‘The Great Hack’ has sparked a lot of interest around data privacy. The documentary covers Cambridge Analytica and how they abused user’s data, so that they could push an “agenda” for the highest bidder.....

How To Check If Your Account Has Been Leaked

Nowadays if you want to do anything online, you will need an account with the site. The reason being is that “it makes life easier for you”. Others will argue it’s to track your every move and sell your data to the highest bidder.....