Weekly Update 458
I’m in Austria! Well, I was in Austria, I’m now somewhere over the Aussie desert as I try and end this trip on top of my “to-do” list. The Have I Been Pwned Alpine Grand Tour was a great success with loads of time
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I’m in Austria! Well, I was in Austria, I’m now somewhere over the Aussie desert as I try and end this trip on top of my “to-do” list. The Have I Been Pwned Alpine Grand Tour was a great success with loads of time
Firstly, apologies for the annoying clipping in the audio. I use a Rode VideoMic that’s a shotgun style that plugs straight into the iPhone and it’s usually pretty solid. It was also solid when I tested it again now, just recording a video into the phone,
It’s time to fly! It’s two months to the day since we came back from the last European trip, again spending the time with some of the agencies and partners we’ve fostered at HIBP over the years. This time, it’s the driving
The bot-fighting is a non-stop battle. In this week’s video, I discuss how we’re tweaking Cloudflare Turnstile and combining more attributes around how bot-like requests are, and… it almost worked. Just as I was preparing to write this intro, I found a small spike of anomalous
We’re two weeks in from the launch of the new HIBP, and I’m still recovering. Like literally still recovering from the cold I had last week and the consequent backlog. A major launch like this isn’t just something you fire and forget; instead, it
This has been a very long time coming, but finally, after a marathon effort, the brand new Have I Been Pwned website is now live!

Feb last year is when I made the first commit to the public repo for the rebranded service, and we soft-launched the new brand in
Funny how excited people can get about something as simple as a sticker. They’re always in hot demand and occupy an increasingly large portion of my luggage as we travel around. Charlotte reckoned it would be the same for other merch too, so, while I’ve been
Today, we welcome the 40th government onboarded to Have I Been Pwned’s free gov service, Malaysia. The NC4 NACSA (National Cyber Coordination and Command Centre of the National Cyber Security Agency) in Malaysia now has full access to query all their government domains via API, and monitor them
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The Have I Been Pwned Alpine Grand Tour is upon us! I’ve often joked that work is always either sitting at my desk at home in isolation or on the other side of the world, and so it is with this trip. As we’ve done with
For many years, people would come to Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), run a search on their email address, get the big red “Oh no – pwned!” response and then… I’m not sure. We really didn’t have much guidance until we partnered with 1Password
Continue reading After the Breach: Finding new Partners with Solutions for Have I Been Pwned Users