Weekly Update 416
It’s been a while since I’ve just gone all “AMA” on a weekly update, but this was just one of those weeks that flew by with my head mostly in the code and not doing much else. There’s a bit of discussion
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Weekly Update 415
I still find the reactions to the Telegram situation with Durov’s arrest odd. There are no doubt all sorts of politics surrounding it, but even putting all that aside for a moment, the assertion that a platform provider should not be held accountable for moderating content on the
The North American Have I Been Pwned Tour
It was 2019 that I was last in North America, spending time in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vegas, Denver, Minnesota, New York and Seattle. The year before, it was Montreal and Vancouver and since then, well, things got a bit weird for a while. It’s a shame it&
Weekly Update 414
This is such a significant week for us, to finally have Stefan join us as a proper employee at HIBP. When you start out as a pet project, you never really consider yourself a “proper” employee because, well, it’s just you mucking around. And then when
The Trouble with Procurement Departments, Resellers and Stripe
It should be so simple: you’re a customer who wants to purchase something so you whip out the credit card and buy it. I must have done this thousands of times, and it’s easy! I’ve bought stuff with plastic credit cards, stuff with Apple
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Weekly Update 413
Whilst there definitely weren’t 2.x billion people in the National Public Data breach, it is bad. It really is fascinating how much data can be collected and monetised in this fashion and as we’ve seen many times before, data breaches do often follow. The NPD
Inside the “3 Billion People” National Public Data Breach
I decided to write this post because there’s no concise way to explain the nuances of what’s being described as one of the largest data breaches ever. Usually, it’s easy to articulate a data breach; a service people provide their information to had someone
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Weekly Update 412
When is a breach a breach? If it’s been breached then re-breached, is the second incident still a breach? Here’s what the masses said when I asked if they’d want to know when something like this happened to their data:
If you’re
Weekly Update 411
The ongoing scourge that is spyware (or, as it is commonly known, “stalkerware”), and the subsequent breaches that so often befall them continue to amaze me. More specifically, it’s the way they tackle the non-consensual spying aspect of the service which, on the one hand is
Begging for Bounties and More Info Stealer Logs
TL;DR — Tens of millions of credentials obtained from info stealer logs populated by malware were posted to Telegram channels last month and used to shake down companies for bug bounties under the misrepresentation the data originated from their service.
How many attempted scams do you get each day?
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