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By Gurpreet Thathy, Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Countermeasures, Valkyrie Over the weekend, Gurpreet Singh Thathy visited his parents. Whilst there, his father passed over several tablets/mobile phones to him, all old and no longer used – a couple were old personal ones, the others were work related. He asked Gurpreet whether any of […]

By Gurpreet Thathy, Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Countermeasures, Valkyrie Recently, I was with a client in central London and whilst parking his car, I noticed a QR Code sticker at the parking meter.  This sticker looked as if it had been placed over the original parking notice.  This led me to do some […]

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Recently, VALKYRIE (GB) LIMITED had a client who was going through a complex divorce from her husband. She had reason to believe that her husband had put eavesdropping devices (bugs) into the family home after he had moved out. When we conduct a task, we always attempt to gain as much background information as possible or as […]

Final update on the ‘iPhone-in-a-fish-tank’ investigation. In phase-1 (20th Oct post) we assessed the phone and were able to identify the issues and procure the requisite replacement parts. During phase-2 (3rd Nov post) we successfully powered up the device. Phase-3 – ‘extraction of the data’, took longer than expected due to the occasional power issue […]

By Gurpreet Thathy, Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Countermeasures, Valkyrie I was sitting in the office this morning catching up with Gurpreet Singh Thathy, along with the usual topics (weather, football etc.) and we started to discuss how technology has changed and advanced so quickly, especially mobile phones. We regularly post about technology and […]

By David Webb, Managing Director, Valkyrie Back in June we posted about an incident that resulted in a head injury, the post included the immediate action that should be taken after an incident. In the last 4 weeks, three people known to Valkyrie have had cardiac arrests (CA) – a serious medical emergency – sadly […]

By David Webb, Managing Director, Valkyrie Yesterday, I was on a surveillance task, which took me through several London boroughs and as it’s Friday, I thought I’d continue my passion for origins of names & history and write a post of the etymology of the various boroughs I went through while on task. Parliamentary boroughs […]

By Gurpreet Thathy, Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Countermeasures, Valkyrie We posted previously (20th Oct) about an iPhone that had apparently fell – ‘by accident’ – into a fish tank. Following on from that post, the VALKYRIE (GB) LIMITED team purchased several replacement parts for the iPhone and set about repairing it, the repairs, cleaning and […]

By Gurpreet Thathy, Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Countermeasures, Valkyrie We were recently tasked to investigate an individual suspected of harassment within the workplace. As part of the process, our team preserved the individual’s mailbox and analysed the emails, and we identified emails of harassment.  However, what we further discovered came as quite a […]

By Gurpreet Thathy, Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Countermeasures, Valkyrie Recent events reported in the media show that device compromise is still a common occurrence. Here at Valkyrie, we have seen more and more of our clients combining device compromise checks with our TSCM services. As we have mentioned in previous posts, technology is […]

Just as we thought it was going to be a quiet weekend, we received a late Friday request for a ‘fast ball’ tasking from one of our law firm clients. So much so, that one of the executive team had to chip in and assist. Our client was in discussions with a group about possible […]

Happy birthday to the Royal Marines, 358 today! Formed in the reign of King Charles II on October 28, 1664 as the Duke of York and Albany’s Maritime Regiment of Foot (or Admiral’s Regiment), the name Marines first appeared in the records in 1672 and in 1802 they were titled the Royal Marines by King […]

By Matthew Newton, Director of Investigations and Crisis Response, Valkyrie Whilst in a coffee shop in London last week, we were approached by someone asking for money. She had an A4 sign written in broken English. From my police background, I knew this was a distraction theft attempt and sent her on her way. MET police […]

By Gurpreet Thathy, Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Countermeasures, Valkyrie On a recent Technical-Surveillance-Counter-Measures (TSCM) inspection the client had a keen interest in knowing what we doing during the sweep and how we went about it. So, our Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Counter Measures, Gurpreet Thathy provided him with a brief and then showed […]