2003 in review
2003 retrospective. SQL Slammer, August's worm cluster, Microsoft's progress.
Notes from the field
Writing
Long-form thinking on cyber defence, detection, and resilience — from Slackware-era honeypots through to AI-driven SOC analytics.
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2002 in review
Looking back at 2002. The year of structural responses to 2001's threats. A walk through what changed.
2001 in review
Looking back at 2001. The year is the most operationally significant since I started this notebook. The structural shifts are large enough to deserve their own retrospective.
2000 in review: the year of distributed attacks
Looking back at 2000. The year is harder to summarise than 1999 was. Distributed attacks dominated; structural shifts continued; the threat landscape moved faster than I had expected.
Midyear reflection: six months into 2000
Six months into a year I expected to be busy. Time to take stock — what has happened, what has surprised me, what I want to do over the next six months.
Last post of the millennium
Two hours from midnight in the UK. The year is closing. The decade is closing. The millennium, by some accountings, is closing too. A short note, mostly to put a marker down.
1999 in vulnerabilities: a year-end review
Looking back at the year's CERT advisories and Bugtraq archive. The pattern is clearer than any individual advisory: the same classes of bug, in different software, on a steady drumbeat. The structural lessons are worth pulling out.