Weekly Update 440
Wait – it’s Tuesday already?! When you listen to this week’s (ok, last week’s) video, you’ll probably get the sense I was a bit overloaded. Yeah, so that didn’t stop, and the stealer log processing and new feature building just
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Weekly Update 439
We’re now eyeball-deep into the HIBP rebrand and UX work, totally overhauling the image of the service as we know it. That said, a guiding principle has been to ensure the new looks is immediately recognisable and over months of work, I think we’ve achieved that.
Weekly Update 438
I think what’s really scratching an itch for me with the home theatre thing is that it’s this whole geeky world of stuff that I always knew was out there, but I’d just never really understood. For example, I mentioned waveforming in the video,
Weekly Update 437
It’s IoT time! We’re embarking on a very major home project (more detail of which is in the video), and some pretty big decisions need to be made about a very simple device: the light switch. I love having just about every light in our connected.
Weekly Update 436
We’re heading back to London! And making a trip to Reykjavik. And Dublin. I talked about us considering this in the video yesterday, and just before publishing this post, we pulled the trigger and booked the tickets. The plan is to pretty much repeat the US and Canada
You Can’t Trust Hackers, and Other Data Breach Verification Tales
It’s hard to find a good criminal these days. I mean a really trustworthy one you can be confident won’t lead you up the garden path with false promises of data breaches. Like this guy yesterday:
For my international friends, JB Hi-Fi is a massive electronics
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Weekly Update 435
If I’m honest, I was in two minds about adding additional stealer logs to HIBP. Even with the new feature to include the domains an email address appears against in the logs, my concern was that I’d get a barrage of “that’s useless
Experimenting with Stealer Logs in Have I Been Pwned
TL;DR — Email addresses in stealer logs can now be queried in HIBP to discover which websites they’ve had credentials exposed against. Individuals can see this by verifying their address using the notification service and organisations monitoring domains can pull a list back via a new
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Weekly Update 434
This week I’m giving a little teaser as to what’s coming with stealer logs in HIBP and in about 24 hours from the time of writing, you’ll be able to see the whole thing in action. This has been a huge amount of work
Weekly Update 433
It sounds easy – “just verify people’s age before they access the service” – but whether we’re talking about porn in the US or Australia’s incoming social media laws, the reality is way more complex than that. There’s no unified