A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. Information leaks are becoming more covert from government methods up to the bad guys. Often they are only found after a mistake is made and all hell
The security vs convenience trade-off (Security News 26/08/2016)
A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. Its been a reasonably quiet week on the security front which I suspect is mainly due to people still digesting the Equation Group leak. In light of
Opportunistic Vs. Targeted Attacks
There has long been debate over the effectiveness of opportunistic and targeted attacks and how both work. In this blog post I take a brief look at what categorizes an attack. Opportunistic These are attackers who search for opportunity using
FAQ: How do I encode a WordPress plug-in?
In this FAQ we will explore how to protect a plug-in with the ionCube Encoder so that it can be registered by WordPress. When files are protected with ionCube they are encoded at a binary level, this means WordPress is
In this week’s web security news we look at encryption… in space – 19/08/2016
A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. This week, for a break from the relentless stream of catastrophes in the security world I thought I would go for an all out amazing geekfest. I