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By Gurpreet Thathy, Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Countermeasures, Valkyrie After every TSCM inspection, as you would expect we produce a detailed report for the client describing what we have done, findings and recommendations etc. Interestingly, numerous clients have recently commented on several of the additional areas we cover when conducting a sweep, none […]

When I was a young policeman walking the streets of Notting Hill & Kilburn, I had occasion to knock on doors and speak to the residents.  Often, young children opened the door.  This always concerned me, especially as most of the time, I knocked on these doors unannounced and the occupants didn’t know who was […]

As we mentioned in yesterday’s post the VALKYRIE (GB) LIMITED team have been kept busy over the last couple of weeks on a variety of taskings. With the type of work we do it often involves ‘unsocial hours’: late nights, early mornings or weekends etc., and quite often it’s easy to forget that your operating in some […]

By Gurpreet Thathy, Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Countermeasures, Valkyrie The VALKYRIE (GB) LIMITED Cyber-TSCM team were busy last week conducting several taskings. There have been some interesting findings throughout the week which we will post about in the coming days; however, on a TSCM sweep over the weekend in central London the client requested a […]

By Gurpreet Thathy, Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Countermeasures, Valkyrie Whilst on a break from a sweep tasking over the weekend the team were discussing privacy and stalking. Simon Lincoln mentioned that during his police career he regularly dealt with cases of this type and it was a serious problem. All cases of stalking […]

By Gurpreet Thathy, Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Countermeasures, Valkyrie It has been widely reported in the last few days that WhatsApp data containing approx. 500 million WhatsApp records has been leaked and is up for sale online, in what ‘could’ be one of the most serious modern data breaches. The breach allegedly contains […]

By Gurpreet Thathy, Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Countermeasures, Valkyrie Over recent weeks we’ve had clients enquire about the rules, policies and practices involved with ‘screenshotting’ on social media (SM)/messaging platforms. Screenshots let you capture exactly what you’re seeing on your screen (computer/mobile phone) to share with others or reference later. Screenshotting has been […]

Last year Nov 16th, I hadn’t long joined Valkyrie and one of my early tasking was to accompany a client to a restaurant in Knightsbridge SW1, a restaurant we know well and is not too far from our office. We left the restaurant at around 12.30am heading back on Basil St. to the client’s hotel […]

By Gurpreet Thathy, Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Countermeasures, Valkyrie After a night-time sweep, Gurpreet Thathy was in the office yesterday. While we were waiting for a client to arrive we continued our previous discussion about mobile devices. He said he had found an old hard drive in our secure store labelled ‘Spyware’. He […]

By Gurpreet Thathy, Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Countermeasures, Valkyrie Another busy few days for Valkyrie. We travelled to Paris at the end of last week and returned over the weekend. We then had a short notice TSCM tasking in London last night followed by a client meeting this morning. The short notice task […]

By Gurpreet Thathy, Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Countermeasures, Valkyrie One of our core services is investigations which often involves looking at people’s social media feeds. On occasion, we are tasked to review an individual’s social media to assess what content is being posted. With social media, it’s easy to hide behind a screen […]

As I investigated our Friday ‘London executions’ post I came across several articles/sites providing details of ‘causes of death’ in the 17th and 18th century (1632, Aug 1665, 1720-1721). I found many of the listed names of the cases of death to be truly fascinating, bizarre and baffling. I was unable to decide on my […]

By David Webb, Managing Director, Valkyrie Last week we had a surveillance tasking in Islington. I was running the desk for the task and one of the team called to inform me he had parked up in the vicinity of the now closed (2016) Holloway prison. The mention of this prison immediately reminded me of […]

Yesterday Simon Lincoln popped along to the Business Show UK 2022 being held at the London ExCel (16th/17th Nov) to support our sister company, Volopa Financial services – the Volopa team are exhibiting and showcasing their services and products at the show and can be found at stand B620 – they will be there all day today from 0800 […]

Valkyrie are pleased to contribute to an article by Annabelle Spranklen released yesterday (15th Nov) in TATLER   The title of the article is – ‘How high-net-worths manage their online presence’ – From online profile curation to digital vulnerability audits, the savviest UHNWs are investing heavily in protecting themselves online.   https://www.tatler.com/article/high-net-worths-online-security