Introduction   I stumbled into infosec the same year the NSA graced us with Ghidra. It’s by far become the most used tool in ...

When the talks wrap up, the party takes over. PTP Cyber Fest 2026 proudly welcomes back the legendary Cyber House Party for an unforgettable Wednesday night powered by Pen Test Partners.

I’m a huge fan of micro generation and domestic power storage batteries. However, as we dash for net zero, one of the ways to balance the grid is to capitalise on EV batteries and their large capacity ...

Product security has matured significantly over the last decade. Secure defaults, defined ownership of security risk, reliable update mechanisms, and structured vulnerability handling are now ...

It’s more common than you might think to miss built-in defences. Windows has a lot of features that help keep your identity safe, make endpoints more secure, control what software can run, and make it ...

Kubernetes has changed the way we deploy and scale workloads. It’s powerful, flexible, and very good at hiding a lot of complexity. It is also very good at hiding security problems until someone ...

Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) has a certain appeal to aspiring cybersecurity professionals. The mix of ‘CSI-style’ forensic investigations with the chaos and pressure of incident ...

Windows thumbnail cache, or thumbcache, is a well-known forensic artifact, but often one that is overlooked. The thumbcache stores small previews of images, videos and documents and can persist even ...

You’ve done a build review on a host and need to get files from a host, or need to access an application, for example, a Nessus instance running internally. There’s always evidence generated, but ...

I’ve been advising on cyber risk in the insurance sector for over a decade. It still surprises me how many proposal forms include questions that offer very little insight into the actual risk being ...

AI is proving to be a useful companion for analysing data at scale for forensic examiners (data that is already publicly available if not privately hosted). This involves building an AI chatbot system ...