Common Sense Security

Stop leaving it up to the users

Great transparency from Snowflake to allow the publication of this report from their IR provider, Mandiant.

Jun 10, 2024 • 

Toby Lewis

February 2024

The blind men and the Elephant

I accept that I have some odd hobbies - one of which recently was reading through the released chat logs from ransomware gangs’ chat servers. They…

Feb 28, 2024 • 

Toby Lewis

December 2023

A wild Pokémon appears!

This, 100% this:

Dec 15, 2023 • 

Toby Lewis

November 2023

Banning Ransomware Payments

I was recently quoted in an article by Katie Prescott in The Times, regarding the discussion on whether ransom payments should simply be banned.

Nov 21, 2023 • 

Toby Lewis

October 2023

Phishing: it's not the user's fault...

I was reading an article around the potential of Generative AI being used by attackers for improving the efficacy of their phishing emails, and a…

Oct 19, 2023 • 

Toby Lewis

September 2023

We were hit with 1.21 jigawatts of cyber attacks!

Does counting attacks actually mean anything?

Sep 13, 2023 • 

Toby Lewis

June 2023

Paying a ransom

As a topic for a cybersecurity panel, the question “To Pay or Not To Pay” in the context of ransomware often becomes a hotly contested discussion on…

Jun 26, 2023 • 

Toby Lewis

Unearthing the past

This weekend I received an email from Google Scholar that a paper of mine had been cited in a new piece of research.

Jun 13, 2023 • 

Toby Lewis

May 2023

We take security seriously

Although that depends on your definition of "seriously"...

May 3, 2023 • 

Toby Lewis

March 2023

Is banning TikTok the right approach?

There's been a lot of news recently about various national governments issuing diktats banning the use of TikTok on government issued devices, for which…

Mar 1, 2023 • 

Toby Lewis

February 2023

Is the loss of SMS-based 2FA on Twitter really that bad?

The security keyboard warriors were out in force over the weekend – and I’ll be honest, I was very nearly one of them (technically, for about 5mins…

Feb 20, 2023 • 

Toby Lewis

Asking the questions

The 5 Why's... and some Cryptomining

Feb 16, 2023 • 

Toby Lewis