Cyber Security Researcher | Engineer | Building @CVEtrends | Runs honeypot @SecureHoney | PhD in CyberSecurity | Alum @RoyalHolloway (@ISGNews) & @SussexUni

London, England
Joined February 2009
I wanted a way to monitor trending CVEs on Twitter So I built CVEtrends.com - data comes from Twitter + NIST NVD APIs - back-end: Python, Flask, PostgreSQL, and Redis - front-end: React + Bootstrap It's a quick MVP, but let me know your thoughts and feedback...
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If you’ve ever wondered how cyber insurance works, here’s a great thread from my awesome colleague @balgan (also, big up the honeypots 🍯!)
A 🧵 about cyber insurance, and some myth-busting on some topics that I read this week. Full disclosure: I work for a cyberinsurance provider and will only talk about how WE are doing things,we too agree the it could be done better and decided to do it.1/N
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The Workings of Whatsapp's Backups (and why you should enable End-to-End Encrypted Backups) sudneela.github.io/posts/the…
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Simon J. Bell retweeted
We're not on vacation! It's just that Lagos, Portugal, is so beautiful ☀️ We had a very fun and productive offsite there for our European and Security teams. Big shoutout to @Balgan and #OurCoalition
If only there was a way to play Minecraft AND monitor security alerts at the same time… Ooh 👀 SIEMCraft - Security Information and Event Management in Minecraft Blog: blog.tofile.dev/2022/06/10/s… Demo: youtu.be/8Vyf8Y5wcRY Repo: github.com/pathtofile/siemcr… Credit: @pathtofile
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Decrypting your own HTTPS traffic with Wireshark Useful for reverse engineering APIs, analysing app privacy, vulnerability research, etc trickster.dev/post/decryptin…
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Top 10 CI/CD Security Risks Identify focus areas for securing CI/CD ecosystems Website: cidersecurity.io/top-10-cicd… PDF: cidersecurity.io/wp-content/… GitHub repo: github.com/cider-security-re… Credit: @omer_gil & @Dkrivelev from @cider_sec
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PM shares AWS migration experience: youtu.be/_8AHPqzuLkM
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Stratus Red Team: an open-source adversary emulation tool for the cloud. Detonate offensive attack techniques in a granular and self-contained manner to test your threat detection. github.com/Datadog/stratus-r… Kudos to @christophetd
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Wholeaked: a file-sharing tool to find whodunit in case of leakage - hides a unique signature in the shared file for each recipient - works with every file type - additional features for PDF, DOCX, MOV - written in Go Demo: youtube.com/watch?v=EEDtXp9n… github.com/utkusen/wholeaked
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New vulnerability scanning project from @NCSC - Nmap scripts to help system owners / admins find specific vulnerabilities - first released script scans for 21Nails (Exim MTA RCE vulnerabilities CVE-2020-28017 through CVE-2020-28026): github.com/nccgroup/nmap-nse…
Introducing Scanning Made Easy (SME), a joint effort between the i100 and the NCSC, designed to help system owners and administrators find systems with specific vulnerabilities. Learn more ⤵️ ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/introd…
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Simon J. Bell retweeted
Replying to @CVEtrends
@CVEtrends should have more followers The CVE Trends project gathers crowdsourced vulnerability trends intelligence from the best #infosec source - Twitter. Kudos to @SimonByte for this great community contribution.
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Gotta sanitize those pesky spaces! Source: "I was asked to look into a possible data breach on a very old website. This was the SQL injection protection" - reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor…
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Hmm, what are these strange coloured boxes I keep seeing... theguardian.com/games/2022/j… Sounds interesting, let's see what it's like... Wordle 211 3/6 ⬛🟩🟨🟨🟨 🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Okay, I'm hooked! *shares with everyone* powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
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ThePhish: an automated phishing email analysis tool - Built with Python + Flask - Based on TheHive, Cortex and MISP It's also got a super nice + detailed README 👍 Credit @its_emalderson github.com/emalderson/ThePhi…
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Happy New Year from London 🎉🎊🎉 Wishing everyone a fantastic 2022
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New features: - trend graphs! 📈 - settings auto save to device 💾 - dock stats (via settings) - hide scrollbars (via settings) 👉 cvetrends.com Feedback welcome :)
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