Writing
Notes from the desk
Fewer posts, more substance. Every article is sourced, dated and re-reviewed rather than published once and forgotten.
- Careers20 Aug 2026 · 2 min read
Free Cybersecurity Training That Is Actually Useful
Free material that teaches transferable skill rather than badge collection, grouped by what it prepares you to do.
READ ARTICLE → - Careers13 Aug 2026 · 2 min read
How to Start a Cybersecurity Career
The sequence that keeps working: fundamentals, one specialism, demonstrable work, then applications aimed at roles that actually hire juniors.
READ ARTICLE → - Careers12 Aug 2026 · 3 min read
Cloud Security
Identity, configuration and automation in one provider, deeply. What cloud security engineers do and what interviews test.
READ ARTICLE → - Careers10 Aug 2026 · 2 min read
Vulnerability Management
The discipline of finding, prioritising and driving out vulnerabilities at scale — and why prioritisation, not scanning, is the job.
READ ARTICLE → - Careers7 Aug 2026 · 3 min read
Security Analyst
A broader remit than the SOC: risk, controls, vulnerabilities and awareness. What the title really covers, and how to read the job advert.
READ ARTICLE → - Website Security6 Aug 2026 · 2 min read
Security Headers Explained
What each HTTP security header protects against, sensible starting values, and the order to deploy them without breaking your site.
READ ARTICLE → - Careers4 Aug 2026 · 2 min read
SOC Analyst
What a SOC analyst does hour to hour, the skills that get you hired, and the realistic route from tier 1 to detection engineering.
READ ARTICLE → - Website Security30 Jul 2026 · 2 min read
Website Security Checklist
A prioritised checklist covering access, patching, backups, monitoring and response — ordered by how much risk each control removes.
READ ARTICLE → - Website Security25 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
Small Business Website Security
No security team, no budget line, real risk. The five controls worth your limited time, and the two questions to ask your web supplier.
READ ARTICLE → - Website Security23 Jul 2026 · 2 min read
How to Check if a Website Is Hacked
Eight checks that reliably separate a compromised site from a slow or misconfigured one, in the order that finds problems fastest.
READ ARTICLE → - Website Security18 Jul 2026 · 2 min read
E-commerce Website Security
Online stores face a specific threat set: payment-page skimmers, third-party script risk, and account abuse. What to monitor and why.
READ ARTICLE → - SEO Spam16 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
How to Remove Injected Spam Links
Removing injected outbound links without breaking your templates — and making sure they do not come back on the next cache rebuild.
READ ARTICLE → - Website Security11 Jul 2026 · 2 min read
WordPress Security
WordPress compromises concentrate in plugins, credentials and writable directories. What to fix, in the order that removes the most risk.
READ ARTICLE → - SEO Spam9 Jul 2026 · 2 min read
How to Detect SEO Spam on Your Website
A repeatable detection routine: search-side checks first, then crawler-view comparison, then file and database review.
READ ARTICLE → - SEO Spam2 Jul 2026 · 2 min read
Cloaking
Cloaking serves different content to search engines than to people. It is the mechanism that keeps most injected spam invisible to site owners.
READ ARTICLE → - Website Malware25 Jun 2026 · 2 min read
Malicious Redirects
Conditional redirects send your mobile or search visitors to scam pages while the site looks normal to you. How they are implemented and how to trace them.
READ ARTICLE → - SEO Spam18 Jun 2026 · 2 min read
Hidden Link Injection
Attackers hide outbound links in your templates and content to pass authority to their own sites. Where the links hide, how to find them, and how to remove them safely.
READ ARTICLE → - SEO Spam11 Jun 2026 · 4 min read
Japanese Keyword Hack
An SEO spam attack that injects Japanese-language pages into a compromised site to hijack search listings. How it works, how to confirm it, and how to clean up.
READ ARTICLE → - Website Security4 Jun 2026 · 2 min read
SEO Spam: The Complete Picture
The pillar page for injected search spam: the attack family, how the variants relate, and the detection and remediation path shared by all of them.
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