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| bio | website | scotsts.com |
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| location | Scotland, United Kingdom | |
| age | 39 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 6 months |
| seen | 11 mins ago | |
| stats | profile views | 518 |
I'm an IT Security professional based in Scotland. I've been in IT Security for over 13 years now, with the last eight focusing on penetration testing/ethical hacking.
Currently director at a Scotland based Security Testing consultancy called ScotSTS
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Jul 26 |
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Should IP addresses be validated to prevent SQL Injection? D'oh I was confusing Prepared statements and stored procedures ... |
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Jul 25 |
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Should IP addresses be validated to prevent SQL Injection? Updating to take account of @Lucb1e's comment on the $_SERVER array |
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Apr 2 |
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Besides OpenVas and Nessus, what are my other options for vulnerability detection? doh retina is a windows prod |
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Dec 28 |
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Two SSIDs on same Access point- not good? finished my thought |
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Nov 27 |
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What are the most challenging IT security certifications to obtain? added bracket |
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Sep 20 |
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Information on the phpMyAdmin probe? typo |
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Sep 19 |
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Guarding against rogue certificates previous edit changed sentence to suggest that all certs are hard coded into chrome. AFAIK it's just for googles services |
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Jul 28 |
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How can I reliably erase all information on a hard drive? updated with additional references and quotes |
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Jun 6 |
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incoming packets in server formatting use of angle brackets caused text to disapper :) |
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May 26 |
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Secure Development costs added another reference to a building security in page |
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May 26 |
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Secure Development costs added reference to informationweek article and Aberdeen group report |
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May 23 |
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What is the best option for setting up a several sites supporting SSL on the same IP? adding update indicating where a list of supported browsers is available |
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Mar 1 |
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Vulnerable OS's? added 250 characters in body |
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Jan 18 |
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If someone breaks encryption, how do they know they're successful? Fixed Typo in title (Successfull to Successful) |
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Jan 18 |
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Is posting from HTTP to HTTPS a bad practice? Just changing OSASP to OWASP which I think is what was meant |
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Dec 30 |
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What benefits does Nessus have over OpenVAS? added 652 characters in body; deleted 53 characters in body |
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Dec 18 |
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Are there any decent web app security scanners that can integrate with a build server? added web-application tag |
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Nov 13 |
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How to securely hash passwords? added 545 characters in body |
