Data Science
A Cautionary Tale About Fraud, Maths, and Why You Should Never Let a Raccoon Manage Your SIEM Reggie was elbow-deep in a bin outside a Pret a Manger on Farringdon Road when his pager went off. His pager. Not his phone, his pager. Reggie had strong opinions about phones, most
Counter-Intelligence
Executives rarely imagine themselves as intelligence targets. This is understandable. Espionage sounds glamorous and dangerous, whereas most senior leadership work involves emails, meetings, flights, and pretending to enjoy panel discussions. Unfortunately, this is exactly why OPSEC matters in business: modern intelligence work is not glamorous either. It is mostly admin,
Security
There are many ways to measure disaster. Meteorologists have wind speeds, seismologists have magnitudes, economists have charts that go down and to the right in an unsettling shade of red. None of these, however, answer the question most people actually ask during a crisis, which is: can I still function
Security
So, we’re sitting here in 2025, and everyone is patting themselves on the back because we’ve finally got a "British" tech unicorn that isn’t just a food delivery app. Enter Anduril. It’s got the cool name, the "defense disruptor" branding, and it’
Security
If you’ve ever read about corporate incident response, you’ll know it usually involves a boardroom full of executives who look like they’ve just learned what a computer is, several security analysts who haven’t slept since 2014, and a consultant who charges more per hour than a
Security
Somewhere right now, a perfectly innocent-looking smart kettle in Milton Keynes is quietly participating in a global cybercrime infrastructure with better uptime than your employer’s VPN. It does not complain. It does not open a ticket. It does not send passive-aggressive emails about “workload priorities.” It simply does its
Cryptography
There’s a peculiar comfort in knowing that governments have always been bewildered by technology. Today they struggle with TikTok; in the 1990s they struggled with mathematics. Not complicated mathematics, either, just the sort involving large prime numbers and a few lines of code. But give a politician even a
Surveillance
Modern Britain loves a good motoring myth. For decades we believed our cars were faithful companions: sturdy mechanical horses helping us gallop through life, guided only by petrol, luck, and a questionable relationship with the Highway Code. But that age has vanished faster than a government minister faced with accountability.
Networks
At 02:14 on an otherwise unremarkable Wednesday, an accountant at Thames & District Water Services (fictitious), a critical infrastructure provider whose security budget was approved by someone who still calls Wi-Fi “the wireless internet”, appeared to log in and begin transferring large volumes of financial records to an external
Security
There’s something wonderfully comforting about space. The vastness. The stars. The crushing existential reminder that one day all this will end, and none of your unread Slack threads will matter. And of course, the satellites, those sophisticated metal darlings we’ve lobbed into orbit to beam encrypted packets of
Networks
There comes a moment in every student’s or analyst’s life when they double-click a .pcap file and realise, with quiet horror, that they’ve just opened the digital equivalent of War and Peace, written in hexadecimal and performed entirely by arguing machines. You scroll for a bit, see
Networks
There are two kinds of network traffic: the stuff you expect, polite HTTP calls, earnest software updates, and the occasional desperate Zoom feed, and the stuff that looks exactly like the first lot but is actually committing crimes in a bowler hat. ICMP sits firmly in the first category: a