Keith is an architect by day, blogger by night. He’s responsible for all the content on this blog, and irresponsible for everything else.
Ok, I’ve been pretty involved in the latest data breach, so here’s my side of the story. At around 11pm last Friday, I got a query from Zurairi at The Malay Mail, asking for a second opinion on a strange email the newsdesk received from an ‘anonymous source’. The email was regular vulnerability disclosure, but one that was full of details, attached with an enormous amount...
Couple months back I started GovTLSAudit. A simple service that would scan .gov.my domains, and report on their implementation of TLS. But the service seems to have benefits above and beyond that, specifically around having a list of a government sites that we can use to cross-check against other intel sources like Shodan (which we already do daily) and VirusTotal. So here’s 3 times...
If you’ve come here from a link on twitter — you’d see that the address bar still says login.astro.com.my, but the site is rendering this page from my blog. If not, click this link to see what I mean. You’ll get something like this: Somehow I’ve managed to serve content from my site on an astro domain. Rest assured, I haven’t ‘hacked’ astro servers...
I previously wrote about how data breaches are like diamonds: They’re not as rare as you think They’re worth far more to you than to a thief They last forever And the recent debacle over the Astro data breach epitomizes all of these characteristics. First off, Lowyat has already reported 3 big data breaches (at least by my count), and rest assured these won’t be the last. Data...
In 2015, I was invited to a variety program on Astro to talk about cybersecurity. This was just after Malaysian Airlines (MAS) had their DNS hijacked, but I was specifically told by the producer that I could NOT talk about the MAS hack, because MAS was a government linked company, and they couldn’t talk bad about GLCs. Then half-way through the interview they asked me about government...
Gov TLS Audit finally has a website to complement the API. I used the services of a guy from fiverr to code the site, it isn’t the best design in the world, but it’s good enough for now. The site allows you to query a site and view the historical details of a particular .gov.my website. The full list of .gov hostnames can be found here. It also links to the full daily scan outputs (in...
Two weeks ago, I rage-tweeted something regarding Malaysian politics that got a lot more viral than I liked (I’ve censored out the profanity for various reasons, most notably, there are teenagers who read this blog). It was a pointless collection of 200 characters, that somehow resonated with people enough to be shared across social media. Obviously, since it was me, the tweet was filled...
Last Month, I embarked on a new project called GovTLS Audit, a simple(ish) program that would scan 1000+ government websites to check for their TLS implementation. The code would go through a list of hostnames, and scan each host for TLS implementation details like redirection properties, certificate details, http headers, even stiching together Shodan results into a single comprehensive data...
Let’s start this post the same way I start my day — by looking at Facebook. Facebook made $40 Billion dollars in revenue in 2017, solely from advertising to pure schmucks like you. The mantra among the more technically literate is that facebook doesn’t have users it has products that it sells to advertisers, it just so happens that all its products are homo-sapien smart-phone...
Let’s start with the basics. Data Breaches are common — and will continue to be the norm. How the App Economy and Big Data ruined it As we shifted towards the ‘App-Economy’ and ‘Big-Data’ (circa 3 years ago), consumers begun sharing more data with more apps. Everyone and their granny, wanted to create a new app, and everyone was told to collect as much data as...