When Fiction Becomes Reality: Cutting Edge Thriller Predicts Webcam Spying Hack
How my cutting edge thriller predicted the webcam spying hack recently exposed by The Mail on Sunday!
Continue reading5 Ways Computer Hackers Remain Anonymous
The hacker characters in my cybercrime thriller Invasion of Privacy are incredibly secretive of their real world identities. This is because they are engaging in illegal activities online or actions that would put their life at risk. One has set up an illegal money spinning website that hacks IP webcams in private homes and broadcasts the […]
Continue readingIP Address Tracing is Not As Easy as Dan Brown Makes Out
Today, I’ve been reading Dan Brown’s latest thriller, Inferno. In the early part of the book the bad guys, trying to track down the hero whom they know is hiding somewhere in Florence, spot that he has just remotely accessed his email account based in the USA. They obtain the IP address of the computer […]
Continue readingIs Your Cellphone Voicemail Still Wide Open?
There is a scene in my novel where I needed the protagonist, a computer hacker called Brody, to gain access to someone else’s mobile phone voicemail. Like most people, I remember the July 2011 phone hacking scandal that brought down the News of the World. So, at the time of writing the scene in the […]
Continue readingAnonymous Banking for Cybercriminals
Black hat hackers do what they do for a variety of reasons. Some do it for the fun of the challenge. Some to enhance their status amongst their peers. Some to deliberately cause chaos. And then there’s the majority, who do what they do to make money. But if you’re a cybercriminal, how do you […]
Continue readingIs Ethical Hacking Actually Ethical or even Legal?
There are three main generally accepted categories of hacker, each represented by a hat of a different colour: white, grey and black. All of them exploit weaknesses in computer systems and networks. The differences between them are their motivations. The most infamous are the black hat hackers, computer criminals epitomised by Hollywood, whose malicious activities serve their […]
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