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It’s a Bit Emotional
A few days ago my wife gave birth to a baby boy. I remember my Dad telling me that when I was born he had to send a telegram to let his parents know the good(?) news. But times have changed, who needs a telegram when you have a mobile phone?
Like all other information security [...]
Cynic Bytes: An interview with Fortify
At Infosec Europe 2010 in Earls court, we spoke with Barmac Meftah of Fortify who shared his views on the industry and what Fortify is doing in their space.
Cynic Bytes: An interview with Fortify from Infosec Cynic on Vimeo.
Infosec Cynic Show Episode 8
It’s been a great season, but like all good things, everything must come to an end and here we are at the end of our first season. We’ve had a great time making this pilot season and we hope that you’ve enjoyed watching it too. We hope to be back later in the year with [...]
Infosec Cynic Show Episode 7
Here comes a slightly delayed episode 7 of the Infosec Cynic show, but our technical team, fuelled by caffeine and threats of unemployment have worked tirelessly to bring you this super-cynical episode. Our resident cynics Javvad and Georgina question whether all Security Products have anything to do with security or are they just marketed as [...]
Infosec Cynic Show Episode 6
On this weeks entertaining episode of Infosec Cynic, we have a special guest in Ruth Jacobs from Barclay Simpson talking about the Infosec job market, the weirdest types of emails they receive and how they can tell when a candidate is lying on their CV. Ruth also gets a chance to interview our resident [...]
Infosec Cynic Show Episode 5
Our Cynics are back in action this week, discussing fake Facebook logo’s and Polish priests. Georgina challenges Javvad to try and bypass the security controls on her laptop. Will she succeed? Or will Javvad take another step towards world domination… and who is this mysterious Peter Stevens guy? It’s all in this action-packed episode [...]
Infosec Cynic Show Episode 4
Posted by The Cynic in Blog, Interviews, Videos on May 16, 2010
In this episode our hosts catch up with the Director of Marmalade Box, Mr Bruce Hallas where he shares his insights into the world of Information Security. How can you ensure your employee’s won’t walk away with your database, and why trust is such an important factor in cross business communications.
Infosec Cynic Show Episode [...]
White Hat Rally 2010
Team Cynic has officially thrown it’s not so white hat into the ring and challenge a bunch of inferior security companies and professionals in the White Hat Rally 2010.
The rally takes place over 3 days starting from Laon in France to Venice in Italy with the organisers throwing in a few challenges along the [...]
Episode 3: Infosec Cynic Show
We are back this week in the studio for another action-packed instalment of The Infosec Cynic Show.
In this episode, our Cynics Javvad and Georgina cover issues such as a website that helps thieves rob you, a not so secure combination lock, Argos sending out credit card numbers in emails and look into seeing if [...]
Social Media Policy
The following is a transcript of a conversation that is taking place in corporations around the world. Names have been changed to protect the innocent.
BOSS Hey low-paid over-worked consultant, I want you to write my company a social media policy.
CYNIC Err I [...]
Spring Cleaning
Posted by Cynical Reporter in Blog, News on April 29, 2010
Spring is in the air and one of the many impulses we sometimes get in the springtime is to do a good old fashioned spring cleaning of the garage, the closet or the attic. But there is one place where that spring cleaning may be even more beneficial to your life. That is your computer. [...]
Sandisk Ultra Backup review
The Sandisk Ultra Backup was featured in episode 1. But what did we really think of this unique USB?
It’s is a one-touch backup solution and USB memory stick. It comes in different capacities, we had the 16GB version and found the backup feature quick and easy to setup and use. It has a nice [...]
Trailer: Infosec Cynic Show
Episode 1 airs 26th April 2010. Don’t miss it! In the meantime watch the teaser trailer right here:
Trailer Infosec Cynic Show from Infosec Cynic on Vimeo.
Why Do You Work In Infosec?
I was at a social event the other day and got chatting to a few people sat around my table. People are curious creatures, so the topic of conversation quickly moves onto what you do for a living. I tend to adopt a formula to determine if they are worth continuing having a conversation [...]
Jailbreaking the Ipad
Unless you’ve been living in a nuclear bunker, you would have probably been exposed to the radiation known as the Ipad hype.
Yes, Apple’s newest shiniest gadget has been setting fanboys and girls swooning like teenagers at a Hannah Montana concert over in the US since its release a couple of days ago. Unfortunately, being on [...]
ICO on A Nice Little Earner
From today, the 6th of April 2010, the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) has now got the ‘power’ to impose penalties of up to £500,000 on companies for ‘serious’ breaches of the Data Protection Act. Up from the previous penalty of £5,000.
Yes, that’s all well and good, providing we can all agree on what constitutes a [...]
Opportunities at Cynic Central
Are you interested in gaining some really useful work experience at Infosec Cynic? Well, somebody asked me the other day, what makes Cynic so special?
The answer is easy, we are built around traditional values. Values that have been passed down from previous generations in the form of 70’s and 80’s TV shows.
Let’s take a look [...]
A History Of Bot Fraud
It’s been a while since anyone’s ever asked us an even semi-serious question, so it we were quite taken aback when we were asked for advice on avoiding Bots when online
Now there are many different ways to answer this question, so after much deliberation, pizza and a roll of the dice we thought it [...]
Infosec Cynic Show – Be Part of it
Posted by The Cynic in Blog, News, Uncategorized on February 15, 2010
“The thing about the written blog is that you can attribute any quotation to anyone and no-one will be able to distinguish fact from fiction” – Abraham Lincoln
But the camera never lies. Which is why The Infosec Cynic show is coming to a computer monitor to you soon. A weekly show bringing you the latest [...]
What’s the Fuss McKinnon?
Posted by Another Cynic in Blog on February 12, 2010
It has been quite some time I have heard views on the McKinnon case, the people in InfoSec say he should be extradited for his heists but most UK citizens do not share such view. I tried to dig a little into what the entire fuss is all about, why so much hue and [...]