eVitabu dev week eVitabu dev week, March 2023 Progress made during the eVitabu dev week in March 2023.
duolingo Duolingo: thoughts after over 1,200 days I've seen a lot of changes in Duolingo over 1,200 days using the app.
AI Playing with Google Bard: writing prose In a previous post I mentioned my early experiments with Google Bard. In May and July I decided to test Bard when it came to writing some prose. Rest assured though, my blog posts will always be written by me! Note: If I've quoted Bard output I'
infosec 2023 Infosec Europe 2023, day 3 Thursday was the final day of the conference and I managed to attend a lot of sessions, some that I hadn't originally planned. Keynote: Malicious Innovation - What We Can Learn From Hackers Our keynote speaker today was Keren Elazari who highlighted to us that hackers force us
infosec 2023 Infosec Europe 2023, day 2 Day two consisted of talks rather than workshops, although I had issues attending some of the talks I was after (one was packed, the other had its previous talk overrun). I managed to get to a number of talks that were still useful though, as well as catching up with
infosec 2023 Infosec Europe 2023, day 1 This is my first in-person conference since the pandemic and I've been looking forward to it. That said, there's a small amount of nerves too as there's likely to be a lot of people in attendance. Infosecurity Europe is conference / trade show is hosted
PowerShell Using the Rapid7 InsightVM API with PowerShell An explanation and some examples for connecting to Rapid7's InsightVM API (version 3) with PowerShell.
android Android ProGuard & Serialisation - exempting files from obfuscation After battling with a problem involving obfuscated variables I wanted to share the solution.
career Changing working practices Reflecting on some of the things I do while working, and how these have changed over my career so far.
career Ten months in to being the SISO Reflections on ten (ish) months into my post as Senior Information Security Officer.
how to Using Docker for a PHP, MariaDB and Nginx project Those of you that are regular readers will notice that my posting is waaaay behind schedule, and that my goal of posting once a week has failed again so far. Sorry about that! Hopefully this post will be useful to you. I use my blog primarily for two things: because
Security Congress 2022 Catching up: on-demand sessions from (ISC)² Security Congress 2022 (ISC)² make session recordings available after the event, and with a number of sessions of interest going on simultaneously these are invaluable. Any sessions I watched prior to the end of December I received CPE / CPD credits for, but the recordings are around afterward too. Here's some summary
Things I need on my desk I saw a tweet from a computer company recently that asked people to name three things they needed on their desk. One person responded "monitor, keyboard, mouse - that was easy", but this got me wondering about what things I need versus the things that I want, or
malware Playing with some old malware Malware has been around for ages, but how do some old malware samples work on more modern Operating Systems?
cyber security A QBot near miss, and a look at what might have been A look at some malware that would have been delivered to a colleague, but they noticed something dodgy was happening!
go bag A cyber security incident response "go bag" I've heard this concept discussed before yet have failed to actually put one together. I started drafting this post back in October, when the concept came up again at a talk during (ISC)² Security Congress 2022 (day one, during "Incident Response Ready - Key Steps of a
Security Congress 2022 (ISC)² Security Congress 2022 - day three As Security Congress draws to a close, here's my notes on the final day.
Security Congress 2022 (ISC)² Security Congress 2022 - day two Having woken up earlier than planned, I spent time pre-keynote watching talks from Monday. Not all the sessions I was interested in were ready yet (we were told it could take 24 hours), so there will be more for me to look at. I won't write about catch
Security Congress 2022 (ISC)² Security Congress 2022 - day one Congress got off to a great start and included a heart-warming (and I'll be honest tear inducing) story from one of the speakers.
home automation Simulating presence with Home Assistant How to make an automation to randomly turn on lights while you're away.
