About Geek Peninsula II

N.B. Although a significant proportion of my income has come from consultancy for the security industry, this blog is not sponsored or directly influenced by anyone but me. 

Since it seems that there are actually people in the world who have no idea who I am, let me first direct you to this Wikipedia article about me (blushes becomingly...), which was, the last time I looked, reasonably accurate. And now, to business. Or not actually business, since I'm pretty much retired from the security business.

Here's where you can find some of my security blogs:

  • The Geek Peninsula includes most of my papers and links to many of my security blogs/articles/papers and the occasional interview.
  • We Live Security is the current home of what used to be the ESET Threatblog, though I no longer work with ESET so no longer blog there.
  • The AVIEN blog is now only occasionally maintained, but until 2019 I maintained a tech support scam resources page there, and another about ransomware, among others. 
  • I no longer post for the (ISC)2 blog as I dropped my subscription to the organization some time ago: there's an archive of my own articles othe other Geek Peninsula.
  • IT Security UK is a highly independent blog run by Kevin Townsend for which I blogged fairly regularly until 2019. Not much happening there now, I don't think. 
  • I haven't written for Infosecurity Magazine recently, and am unlikely do so again now. However, I've published quite a few articles there.
  • Anti-Malware Testing is about testing (who'd have thought it?), especially product testing. Launched originally as a home for blog articles orphaned when AMTSO (the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization) decided that it was bad for its image to have independent commentary posted under the AMTSO banner and asked for the AMTSO blog to be removed. I'm still thinking about a book on testing, so there may be more happening there at some point.
  • Chain Mail Check and Hoaxes Originally focused on chain-letters and hoaxes, but also addresses various types of scam, spam, fraud and general misinformation. Basically all mine, with occasional input from Old Mac and the legendary Letitia Teaspoon.
  • Mac Virus is the current incarnation of the site I inherited many years ago from Susan Lesch. I'm not maintaining it currently, and hasn't in any case been as busy as it used to be for years, but it's about all sorts of malware and other security issues, and is concerned not only with Macs but also iGadgets, Android and such. 
  • Small Blue-Green World is me wearing my independent consultancy hat. It's not a hat I put on very often now, though. 
  • Securiteam is a blog with a wide range of bloggers, often taking advantage of the site to represent themselves to present their own thoughts, rather than representing the companies they work for. We all need to do that from time to time... I haven't blogged there in years, though.
Most of my activity on Twitter comes from @DavidHarleyBlog, but that's not all security. To be honest, I hardly ever remember to use Twitter.

And here are some blogs that aren't primarily security-focused. 
  • As I drift deeper into semi-retirement and music supplants security, Wheal Alice Music is becoming the focus for more musical activity. Some of the stuff that already exists elsewhere is gradually drifting into Cornwall, virtually speaking. There's still quite a lot of music at dharley.com, though.
  • You'll never guess what David Harley's Miscellaneous Prose is about. Or David Harley's Songs, Or David Harley's Verse. Or Parodies Regained - .
  • Sabrinaflu is a blog site based on a site formerly maintained by Fliss Burke, devoted to folk music along the course of the Severn and beyond. Unfortunately, I'm not able to devote as much time to it as I did before I moved out of the area, but I'm doing my best.
  • Shropshire Blues was my main site for Shropshire-oriented material: it's getting a bit dusty since I moved to the West Country, though. 
  • Shropshire Laddishness is particularly focused on Housman-related material. Well, Housman-ish...
  • Dataholics: the IT Addiction satisfies my occasional urge to inflict a cartoon or other short sharp shock on my innocent readers. It's IT-oriented, but not strictly, and often strays far from security issues. More about humour, cheesy cartoons, and raw sarcasm. 
  • David Harley Photos is mostly for photos and artwork. Not much happening there, though.
  • David Harley Words and Music is mostly a repository for stuff like MP3s, but the main articles that link to them are generally elsewhere. 

Watch this space. But you might want to blink occasionally. 

David Harley

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