System administration Business continuity - testing your disaster plan Testing your business continuity plan is a worthwhile exercise. When did you last test yours?
public speaking Advice for public speaking & guest lectures Advice on public speaking, based on my experiences so far.
development Avoiding direct object reference problems Discussing some of the ways to prevent insecure direct object reference issues.
Harbledown Junction After Harbledown Junction I had unfinished business with Harbledown Junction and conclude my research in this post. Probably!
Google Why Google's GSuite isn't ready for enterprise An explanation of why I don't feel Google's GSuite is ready for the enterprise yet.
System administration Using Procmon and Wireshark to solve website access problems When faced with an application that wouldn't connect to the Interet because the proxy was in the way, I used Procmon and Wireshark to prove that was really the problem.
cyber security Be wary of attackers bearing old emails Analysis of some obfuscated VBScript that a malicious email wanted us to download.
eVitabu eVitabu development week, Feb 2019 I spent a week working on eVitabu full time. Here's some highlights.
development Android and Firebase - signing with the right keys After moving my Android development environment I found I couldn't authenticate with Firebase any more. This post explains the solution.
System administration Time travel and Active Directory replication - a tale from 2012 When your Active Directory Domain Controllers experience time travel, replication goes up the creek. This is a tale of something that happened back in 2012.
cyber security The threat of security knowledge gaps (conference slides) Slides from my recent conference talk on the threat of security knowledge gaps.
cyber security My journey (so far) to a cyber security career How I got into cybersecurity - the story so far.
development My Hacktoberfest 2018 experience In 2018 I participated in Hacktoberfest for the first time. This is my experience.
cyber security Moving from Keepass to Lastpass Having recently moved from Keepass to LastPass, I discuss my experience so far.
Merry Christmas! Just a quick post to wish everyone a very merry Christmas :)Some advice as a gift to my readers - if you're not already using a password manager (e.g. Keepass or Lastpass)
System administration A plea to software developers, vendors and support companies A plea to software vendors so we can all work better together.
Harbledown Junction Finding Harbledown Junction (part 2) Part two of the "finding Harbledown Junction" series. Following a walk I got as close as possible to the old signal box's location.
cyber security What penetration tests have shown me Having worked with a few cyber security firms over the years, let's take a look at some of the findings.
forensics Show and tell: digital forensics and giving evidence After performing some forensics for the ICO I was called to give evidence in court. Here I discuss some basics of forensics before talking about my experience in court.
Google GSuite: Allowing users to publish files to the web (link sharing) Sharing files by link outside of your GSuite organisation can be restricted by GSuite administrators. This post shows how to do that.
Google Problems setting a Google account app password How to access "app passwords" for your Google account, while also increasing your account's security.
