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There has been a lot of coverage regarding the use of fake Irish passports by the team that assassinated a senior Hamas official Mahmud al-Mabhouh in Dubai last month. Details of how or what types of passports were used are still unavailable and it is not clear yet whether the passports were of the old type [...]
Last week the RSA Europe Conference was held in London and the main themes that I picked up from the various talks I attended and from other delegates were; The Security Issues Caused by Social Networks Cloud Computing Cyber Warfare I was at the conference to give my “Knowing Me, Knowing You” presentation on how I stole [...]
Various news media are reporting that over 30,000 email accounts belonging to users of web based email providers such as Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail and Aol (to name a few) have been compromised. It is unclear yet as to the exact nature of the compromise. Some reports state that the accounts were compromised by a [...]
A friend rang me today to discuss how she and her husband had become the victim of an apparent keylogger attack resulting in large amounts of money taken from their bank account. Thankfully once they reported the suspicious activity to their bank their funds were recovered and the bank are now investigating the case themselves. My [...]
On a recent broadcast of the RTE Radio 1 Drive Time program I was interviewed regarding the risks posed to people having their identity stolen as a result of their passport going missing/stolen. According to this Sunday Tribune Article over 5,000 passports were lost last year. The show is available online and my interview is 48 mins [...]
I am delighted to say that I have been selected to speak at the upcoming RSA Conference Europe 2009 in October. RSA Conference Europe is regarded as one of the top European information security events of the year so it is particularly exciting for me to be able to address so many of my peers. I will be [...]
I have been invited to speak at the 2nd Digital Security Forum to be held in Lisbon in June. I will be giving a presentation based on the ID Theft project in which I gathered enough information to steal the identity of journalist Marie Boran.
The 4th Annual Privacy & Data Protection Ireland 2009 seminar is due to be held on the 18th and 19th of February 2009. I will be giving and Interactive case study on Identity Theft at the seminar. As a speaker I am happy to be able to pass on a discounted rate to those of [...]
The Irish League of Credit Unions has issued a warning alerting people to spoofed emails that are trying to get credit union customers to surrender their personal details. People are advised to ignore the emails. The warning from the ILCU can be found here
I have been asked to speak at the 4th Annual Privacy & Data Protection Ireland 2009 which is scheduled for next February. My talk is titled “Identity Theft: An Interactive Study”and I will be using my experience in stealing Marie Boran’s, from the SiliconRepublic.com, identity which she wrote up and I posted about earlier. There are a [...]