Here’s a report I found online, reporting on a 2-man crimewave using bumpkeys. Lasting over several years, the police had a very good idea who was behind it, and despite traiing them for 2 years theey never got them red-handed. However, when police eventually went to one of their houses, they found it packed with [...]
Here’s a good scam! Very nicely done, they only messed up in a few places. Normally when you get a phishing attempt, from “ebay” or whoever, the fastest way to tell is to hover on the URL and see that it really links to “www.scammerhome.net”. This one avoids that, by using a cleverly crafted ebay [...]
Got back yesterday from a sort of Busman’s Holiday. We took 6 days off and visited a really brilliant technology and security festival, held every 4 years in The Netherlands. The event is called Hacking At Random, and, as the name suggests, involved a lot of people sat behind computers in a field! However, it [...]
Got back yesterday from a sort of Busman’s Holiday. We took 6 days off and visited a really brilliant technology and security festival, held every 4 years in The Netherlands. The event is called Hacking At Random, and, as the name suggests, involved a lot of people sat behind computers in a field! However, it [...]
Here’s an interesting job. Called to open a door in the countryside south of Tenbury Wells, with lost keys. I tried picking it, and nothing. No movement, nothing’s working. I finally get the door open without damage, open the lock case, and see this. A family of wasps had built a home inside it, out [...]
A recent job took rather longer than might be expected from the task – “Fit a door closer”. However, due to careful pre-planning and two site visits, the actual installation went well. The door that required a closer mechanism, to firmly lock the door for security, but also to reduce the thunderous impact of the [...]
According to this week’s New Scientist, there is a new threat to our credit cards from Russia, which the banks and everyone else totally overlooked. Yet it is obvious, even without hindsight. The why is obvious – millions of dollars there for the taking. The how is very neat – a card is used to [...]
If it was as easy as pay a few hundred pounds, take a short training course and earn more money than a doctor, then doctors would be doing [locksmithing]! 1 Martin Pink, Rapid Locksmiths, Nottingham The state of the locksmith industry is a poor one. Training houses are churning out hundreds, perhaps thousands, of new [...]
Discreet Security now has both the skills and equipment to repair all your uPVC “plastic” doors and windows, from failed or jamming locks and locking strips, right through re-glazing a failed unit, to repairing both structural and cosmetic damage to both white and wood-effect PVCu windows and doors. Repairing a frame made of unplasticised PolyVinylChloride, [...]
As part of the latest Home Office “I’ve been caught fiddling my expenses” initative, the Home Secretary has annouced that, in a clearly anti-competitive move, they will be giving away B&Q vouchers for 15% off the cost of locks and other home security equipment. For the duration of this initative, for as long as they [...]
