Weekly Update 356

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Today was a bit back-to-back having just wrapped up the British Airways Magecart attack webinar with Scott. That was actually a great session with loads of engagement and it’s been recorded to so look out for that one soon if you missed it. Anyway, I filled this week&

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Lucky MVP 13

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Each year since 2011, Microsoft has sent me a lovely email around this time:

I’ve been fortunate enough to find a passion in life that has allowed me to do what I love and make a great living out of it all whilst contributing to the community in

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Weekly Update 355

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Alrighty, “The Social Media”. Without adding too much here as I think it’s adequately covered in the video, since last week we’ve had another change at Twitter that has gotten some people cranky (rate limits) and another social media platform to jump onto (Threads)

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Weekly Update 354

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I’m in Thailand! It’s spectacular here, and even more so since recording this video and getting out of Bangkok and into the sorts of natural beauty you see in all the videos. Speaking of which, rather than writing more here (whilst metres away from the most

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Weekly Update 353

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This feels like a week of minor frustrations with little real world consequence but they just bugged the hell out of me. Couldn’t record in my office due to a weird ground loop problem, my Home Assistant instance was unexpectedly rebooting, the Yale IoT door locks had near

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Weekly Update 352

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Domain searches in HIBP – that’s the story this week – and I’m grateful for all the feedback I’ve received. I’ve had a few messages in particular since this live stream where people gave me some really excellent feedback to the point

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Have I Been Pwned Domain Searches: The Big 5 Announcements!

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There are presently 201k people monitoring domains in Have I Been Pwned (HIBP). That’s massive! That’s 201k people that have searched for a domain, left their email address for future notifications when the domain appears in a new breach and successfully verified that they control the

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Weekly Update 351

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I spent most of this week’s update on the tweaking I went through with Azure’s API Management service and then using Cloudflare to stop a whole bunch of requests that really didn’t need to go all the way to the origin (or at least

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Weekly Update 350

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And so ends a long period of back-to-back weeks of conferences and talks. It’s funny how these things seem to cluster together at times and whilst the last 6 or 8 weeks (I honestly lose track!) have been chaotic, I’ve now got a few weeks of

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Weekly Update 349

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This week’s update is dominated by my experience with “Lena”, the scammer from Gumtree who tried to fleece my wife of $800. There’s a blow-by-blow rundown of how it all happened in this video and it’s fascinating to think that these things

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