The video from the 44CON talk (A talk about (infosec) talks) we gave in September has been posted to YouTube. You can grab the slides [here] | You can watch the video online [here] …
Year: 2013
Today we are happy to release to the public: http://phish5.com Simply, Phish5 is Phishing as a service. It allows a fairly unsophisticated user to phish users in her organization, quickly, easily and from the comfort of her own browser. Why would we do this ? In the past year, a host of high profile news organizations were phished, and then publicly spanked. The attack that compromised the AP’s twitter account [Verge] even led to a visible dip on the Dow. …
The number of security conferences shows no signs of slowing down, feeding an ever-growing appetite for talks, presentations and content. If you’re anything like us, both attending and speaking at conferences is part and parcel of your job, even if it’s one event per year. In the absence of publication channels available in other disciplines such as good quality journals, security researchers have the option of blog posts, ezines such as Phrack, mailing lists or conferences. Many choose to go …
The Mandiant APT1 report that was released a week ago has been causing some consternation, which makes it a ripe topic for our ThinkstScapes service. This morning, we issued an ad-hoc update to our customers containing our views of the APT1 report. In short, the data is interesting, but does not conclusively point to Unit 61938. There are too many open questions to justify the finger pointing. Take, for example, the markers released for the APT1 group. The report does …
The past few years have provided us with a number of high profile hacks and data breaches. In 2010 Google famously announced that they were hacked and put out details on the compromise (later dubbed the Aurora incident). In the months that followed, it became clear that google were not the only Aurora victims. Companies in almost every sector from DuPont to Disney were also breached (but were less forthcoming on the details). If these companies, widely lauded as having …
This post is about 6 months overdue, but we have been busy with a whole bunch of interesting projects (which always manages to dent blogging time.) One of these projects, is http://signalnoi.se We formed Thinkst to work on difficult, interesting problems, and while working on security problems for a well known media organisation, we bumped into (a surprisingly common) problem organisations have: failing to benefit from the available insights afforded by the real-time social media networks. Signalnoi.se managed to win the Knight Fundation’s News Challenge …