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Barry Coatesworth
Barry Coatesworth

Barry works for Kit Digital, and has over 21 years extensive experience dealing with strategic and tactical security initiatives for a variety of organisations . He advises on the security requirements on a variety of subjects, and has carried out security research on information security, cyber crime and social media. A Speaker at various international conferences on cybercrime and threat mitigation. In 2006 he participated in the first ever virtual prime ministers question time in conjunction with Microsoft. Currently in his spare time he is discovering and writing a book on Martini's.

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Security

Phreaking out or How Hackers Still Have The Mojo

06 Feb 2012 News
Phreaking out or How Hackers Still Have The Mojo
The Anonymous/Lulzsec hacker collective released details of a conference call between the FBI and UK police forces last week. The topic of conversation was "Anon-Lulz...
Security

MySQL Here, MySQL there, SQL Injection Everywhere..

07 Dec 2011 News
MySQL Here, MySQL there, SQL Injection Everywhere..
It appears that part of the MySQL website has been compromised again, this time by the hacker D35M0ND142 using SQL injection, to recover user credentials from the MySQL blog (see...
Security

OpRobinHood And His NOT So Merry (Anonymous) Men...

07 Dec 2011 News
OpRobinHood And His NOT So Merry (Anonymous) Men...
The hacking groups TeaMp0isoN and Anonymous have been busy over the last week, with their latest Operation "OpRobinHood" - "Operation Robin Hood is going to return the money to...
Security

The Loss Of Privacy : Where Does Your Responsibility Lie?

02 Dec 2011 News
The Loss Of Privacy : Where Does Your Responsibility Lie?
This week we saw Facebook settle a long standing dispute with the Federal Trade Commission on privacy concerns, and Facebook must now be more transparent with its online consumer...