Disinformation and propaganda has been one of the key features of the war between Russia and Ukraine. One of the many groups that have sprung up to push pro-Russian propaganda narratives is a small hacktivist organisation called Beregini. This article by Givi Gigitashvili provides a useful introductory insight into the methods of Beregini by analysing …
Recently I’ve been setting up a web application built with Docker. The setup posed a little challenge since it was necessary to run the app on the internet but at the same time I didn’t want it to be directly accessible on the web for anyone to poke around. It’s possible to limit access to …
One of the biggest challenges of internet investigation is preserving data once you’ve found it. We have access to more information than ever before, but so much of it can be easily lost if we don’t take steps to archive it. If you’ve ever bookmarked an important resource only to come back later and see …
I have a love/hate relationship with WordPress. It’s the world’s most popular CMS and it makes managing websites very easy. The downside of this widespread popularity is that there is sometimes far too much technical support for WordPress out there. Wading through all the incorrect advice, adverts for more dumpster fires plugins disguised as tech …
Over the weekend my site suffered from a spike in traffic that caused the WordPress interface and then the rest of the site to grind to a halt. This blog runs on a VPS that has about the same computing power as a first generation Raspberry Pi and so it doesn’t take much to exhaust …
