Defending Cybercrime as a Service (CaaS)

Introduction Have you heard of cybercrime as a Service? Australians have started the race to have 80% of the adult population fully vaccinated by the end of 2021. This is important because vaccination reduces the health, social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, hackers don’t share the same morals as us. They see…

The Arcane Art of Attribution

  “Home and office routers come under attack by China state hackers, France warns” – Ars Technica headline. This story was shared in my team’s Slack channel a few weeks ago and prompted a short conversation about how do we know it’s China? Are we just checking the IPs on the incoming messages? What if…

Cyber Security – Where do you start?

  Not a day goes by without a cyber security incident reported in our news feed. Organisations are increasingly concerned about cyber security, and rightly so, as pressure mounts on business leaders to act and protect their organisations. Do nothing, and you are flying blind, unaware of what is happening in your organisation’s network .…

Monitoring Kubernetes and Docker Container Logs

  When building containerized applications, logging is definitely one of the most important things to get right from a DevOps standpoint. Log management helps DevOps teams debug and troubleshoot issues faster, making it easier to identify patterns, spot bugs, and resolve them. In this article, we’ll introduce how to generate logs from containers and how…

Why privacy still matters

  The death of information privacy has been heralded by the tech industry for over two decades. Then Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy once said, “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it” (Sprenger, 1999). At the time, the now-ubiquitous social media giants Facebook, Twitter, Instagram didn’t exist. If, as Scott so subtly put it,…

Elasticsearch and IoT: Match Made in Heaven?

  With a mushroom-like growth in the implementation of IoT practical use cases, there has been much thought about how to manage and use the vast amounts of data produced by the IoT devices. Among many options available in the market Elastic Stack is fast becoming the preferred choice among the available options. This article…