19 August 2011

Infosec expert traces and recovers his laptop - stolen in the London riots | #googlemaps #prey

According to Greg Martin, he returned home to his flat in Ealing Broadway only to discover the apartment had been ransacked during the riots, with his Macbook stolen, along with a number of other personal effects.

Newswire reports suggest that Martin's flat was broken into after a thief used a scaffold pole to pry open the security bars on the basement window.

Fortunately, the ArcSight technical expert had installed Prey, an open source tracking application from Fork and, whilst his laptop was protected using a password and other security software, he – understandably – wanted to get the machine back.

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