Ollie Whitehouse

@ollie_whitehouse@infosec.exchange
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CTO as the UK's National Cyber Security Centre

Former: PortSwigger, InterruptLabs, Group CTO at NCC Group, BlackBerry, Symantec, Atstake etc..

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Back in 🇦🇺 for the first tim in 20 years..

Went to Mona Museum and found these ..

.. yours the cyber tourism board of Tasmania

Article on tech debt and technical security debt is spot on

'The Invisible $1.52 Trillion Problem: Clunky Old Software'

https://archive.ph/NSEFh

James & I wrote on this 12 yrs ago in

'Software Security Austerity - Software security debt in modern software development'

https://github.com/ajaquith/securitymetrics/blob/master/content/attachments/2012-03-05-Software-Security-Austerity.pdf

A fun little canary for you all in cyber defence to help detect breaches/data theft.

QT & MP4 files can reference external urls via 'rdrf' sections. These can be URLs and thus you can get a DNS resolution and/or HTTP request on open.

Have an MP4 working example in VLC...

Last nights fortune cookie was vocational in nature..
Merry Christmas cyber [defenders|researchers]
Got a couple of presentations coming up for SANS and BlackHat .. attire decisions are real..

Was in the @PortSwigger office last week, made me 🤣

We are hiring office based roles in Knutsford (UK) for these technical areas:
- IT Ops/Security Engineer
- Web Vuln Researcher
- Software Engineers (.NET/Java)

Come enable the world to secure the web.

https://portswigger.net/careers

Careers - PortSwigger

Find out why joining PortSwigger, a cybersecurity firm in the North West of England and creators of Burp Suite, could be the best career choice for you

I deliver two MSc modules, one of which covers this type of scenario and the complexity of the challenge..

Sounds easy doesn't it?

Proper V for Vendetta inspired Hollywood cyber operations going on in Iran.

Iranian TV hacked Saturday during presidential address with V for Vendetta inspired broadcast

Hollywood has a lot to answer for.

Life imitates art etc.

More prophetic comics about this threat actor.