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All at Valkyrie are deeply saddened by yesterday’s news of the death of our Queen, Elizabeth II (1926-2022).

Our TSCM team have been busy with an urgent job coming through last night. It was a long night with a large area to cover before our client’s employees come back to the office the next day. We will be going again tonight to complete another area. One of the things which is often overlooked […]

As mentioned in yesterday’s post, Dave and I attended the DroneX Tradeshow & Conference at the Excel London today. The event was a hive of activity with plenty to see.  We received excellent briefings from several of the exhibitors who we will follow up with, particularly, Glenn Brown from Atlas Aerospace, James Wardlow from Phase […]

Dave Webb and I will be heading over to the DroneX Tradeshow & Conference tomorrow morning. Its running for 2 days (7th & 8th of Sept) at the Excel London, we hope to see you there if you’re attending.

By Gurpreet Thathy, Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Countermeasures, Valkyrie Last month we delivered our first basic training course in Technical Surveillance Counter Measures (TSCM). The aim of this two-day course is to provide attendees with the ability to understand and carry out basic physical TSCM assessments. By understanding the principles of TSCM, attendees […]

It’s been a busy few weeks for our cyber, intelligence and surveillance operatives at Valkyrie, tasked with a variety of interesting projects. One of the projects was a physical penetration test (PPT) task on a critical national infrastructure (CNI) complex and associated buildings. It was a fascinating but complex project which involved multiple disciplines conducted […]

Remembering multiple passwords might be the bane of our existence but Apple might have a solution to do away with them entirely.  It may sound odd, but passwords are a very poor security system. Apple ‘passkeys’ are due to arrive this month with the iOS 16, macOS Ventura and iPadOS 16 updates could very well replace your passwords. […]

By Matthew Newton, Director of Investigations and Crisis Response, Valkyrie Last month, a client contacted us and informed us that a family member had gone missing.  After a short investigation we found the person. They were safe and well and we arranged for them to be taken back to the family home. The circumstance of […]

Social media in many ways is the perfect surveillance tool for criminals Following from our post last week on ‘high value timepiece crime’ we thought we would re-highlight the risks associated to posting ‘too much’ information on social media sites allowing criminals to utilise the information to target people and commit crimes; in essence using […]

I have always had a keen interest in etymology (the origin of a word and the historical development of its meaning) and decided to write a light-hearted post for Friday about the history of street names around our office in Belgravia. Interestingly, a lot of the names are after landowners who owned land in different […]

By Matthew Newton, Director of Investigations and Crisis Response, Valkyrie As you may have no doubt seen in the media this week, moped thieves were caught on camera smashing in the window of a Bugatti Chiron in Mayfair in a bid to ‘steal the driver’s watch’. Last month the Metropolitan Police appealed to the public […]

At Valkyrie, we encourage our teams to think outside the box and research various pieces of kit to stay current and improve our service offerings. Our Cyber team recently purchased a portapack H2. It allows you to experiment with, record, listen, decode and transmit RF signals out in the field, without the need for any […]

LinkedIn is a critical tool for businesses and business professionals to interact with each other, share ideas and progress careers. It is also a useful tool for criminals and state-actors to infiltrate organisations and governments.  A recent breach in 2021 reportedly exposes the data of 700M users, which is more than 92% of the total […]

By Gurpreet Thathy, Director of Cyber Security and Electronic Countermeasures, Valkyrie Apple users have been advised to immediately update their iPhones, iPads and Macs to protect against a pair of security vulnerabilities that can allow attackers to take complete control of their devices, from access to your photos, to access to your camera, microphone, bank […]

During my police career, incidents of crime involving fire arms was an ever present threat. The majority of shootings in the UK are committed by street gangs involved in many types of criminality, such as armed robberies and drug distribution On Saturday 6th August, a family’s summer’s day out by a river in south London […]