Mar 12, 2020 | Articles, Posts
A few weeks ago, a friend who looks after a web server had an outage on their website and asked me to help troubleshoot. The cause of the outage surprised me and is the reason why I’m writing about it. The website outage was due to a dependency it had on the server of...
Oct 12, 2018 | Articles, Posts
That was the main take away for me from today’s talks by SANS instructor Eric Johnson. He was in the country running a workshop and talk at AISA conference in Melbourne and SANS contacted me if I was interested in having him doing a private talk to the team. I was...
Oct 10, 2018 | Articles, Posts
Today we had a combined application security event with another tech company.It was the first time we ran the combined event and it involved security champions from both companies. We had planned on spending the morning reviewing 4 security concepts; XSS, CSRF, RCE...
Feb 28, 2016 | Articles, Posts
I sometimes do a search for my name on the University of Wollongong’s website as you never know what the search results might you. Today I discovered that I’ve been featured on the UOW Computer Science Page. 🙂...
Nov 15, 2015 | Articles, Posts
This week, I attended a SANS community night talk and we had presenters Dr. Eric Cole and Jake Williams talk about the different types of attacks and their prevention and mitigation strategies. It was my first SANS community night event and I was also at the venue...
Sep 4, 2015 | Articles, Posts
Yesterday evening, I had the opportunity to attend a sneak preview of the SANS SEC561 Course on Immersive Hands-On Hacking Techniques. This is the first time SANS is introducing the course to Australia and hence they are presenting this sneak preview. The sneak...
