by Richard Merrygold | Nov 15, 2021 | Blog
International Fraud Awareness Week is an initiative that promotes a global effort to minimise the risk of fraud through awareness and education. This year the initiative is taking place between the 14 -20 of November. The main purpose of the initiative is to encourage...
by Richard Merrygold | Nov 11, 2021 | Blog
Respect in security was founded in 2021 by a group of cybersecurity professionals who have decided to take a stand against all forms of harassment within our industry. It stemmed from a discussion that a group of professionals had following an event. Upon hearing the...
by Richard Merrygold | Oct 13, 2021 | Blog
Charities are becoming increasingly vulnerable in the current threat landscape. The databases that they hold full of personal and financial information are the targets for cybercriminals. Losing this information can have a significant impact on the charity’s...
by Richard Merrygold | Oct 11, 2021 | Blog
This year is the first-ever Cyber Outstanding Security Performance Awards (Cyber OSPAs). The awards were set up with a difference, aiming to recognise and highlight outstanding performance by companies, people, products, and initiatives across the cyber security...
by Richard Merrygold | Oct 8, 2021 | Blog
On a recent web application pentest I was given two different subdomains in scope for the engagement. One of the subdomains had only 1 functionality available for testing (as the rest were out-of-scope) which contained an input field for commenting and the ability to...
by Richard Merrygold | Aug 12, 2021 | Blog
Microsoft has been hit with yet again another critical vulnerability in 2021 by security researcher @jonasLyk who discovered this zero-day while messing around with the upcoming Windows 11 OS – Microsoft’s latest product set to release late this year. If you’ve been...