Thousands of GitHub repositories deliver fake PoC exploits with malware
When we’re investigating a security vulnerability, we might download a PoC (Proof of Concept) to help with our remediation. Researchers have analysed around 47,000 such repositories on GitHub and found around 10% of them were malicious, themselves containing malware....Australian Defence Department caught up in ransomware attack
The Australian Department of Defense has been caught up in a ransomware attack. Hackers have targeted an external information and communications provider with the company initially telling the defense that no data of current former personnel have been compromised....
Speaker at OWASP Lagos Chapter
One of the benefits of video conferencing is that you can speak to audiences all over the global. I’ve never been to Lagos, let along Africa, but had the opportunity to speak at the OWASP Lagos Chapter. Due to the timezone differences, I think I had to do the...
OWASP 20th Anniversary
I had the privilege to speak at the 20th Anniversary OWASP event. It’s a live 24hr global...
It’s Not Your Developers’ Fault
This year’s RSA theme is Resilience. It’s once again a virtual event, which means I get to attend as a speaker without needing to travel to San Francisco. Title: It’s Not Your Developers’ Fault Time: 5:00pm to 5:30pm (EDT) Description:The...
RSA Conference Asia Pacific &Japan 2020
This was my first virtual RSA presentation. Previously it had always been in person at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. However due to the pandemic, this session was done virtually. The title of my talk was Your Application is Mostly Written by...
Guest on IDC DevOps Breakfast on Open Source Security
I had the opportunity to be a guest on the IDC DevOps Breakfast show with Gina Smith and Michael Araneta where we got to speak on open source...