Weekly Update 308

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It was all a bit last minute today after travel, office works and then a quick rebuild of desk and PC before doing this livestream (didn’t even have time to comb my hair!) So yes, I took a shortcut with the description of this video, but it all

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Weekly Update 307

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A very early weekly update this time after an especially hectic week. The process with the couple of data breaches in particular was a real time sap and it shouldn’t be this hard. Seriously, the amount of effort that goes into trying to get organisations to own their

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Sending Spammers to Password Purgatory with Microsoft Power Automate and Cloudflare Workers KV

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How best to punish spammers? I give this topic a lot of thought because I spend a lot of time sifting through the endless rubbish they send me. And that’s when it dawned on me: the punishment should fit the crime – robbing me of my time

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Weekly Update 306

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I didn’t intend for a bunch of this week’s vid to be COVID related, but between the breach of an anti-vaxxer website and the (unrelated) social comments directed at our state premier following some pretty simple advice, well, it just kinda turned out that way. But

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Weekly Update 305

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I broke Yoda’s stick! 3D printing woes, and somehow I managed to get through the explanation without reverting to a chorus of My Stick by a Bad Lip Reading (and now you’d got that song stuck in your head). Loads of data breaches this week and

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If You’re Not Paying for the Product, You Are… Possibly Just Consuming Goodwill for Free

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How many times have you heard the old adage about how nothing in life is free:

If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product

Facebook. LinkedIn. TikTok. But this isn’t an internet age thing, the origins go back way further, originally being used

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Weekly Update 304

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It’s very much a last-minute agenda this week as I catch up on the inevitable post-travel backlog and pretty much just pick stuff from my tweet timeline over the week 😊 But hey, there’s some good stuff in there and I still managed to knock out

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Weekly Update 303

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And we’re finally done with this trip. 26 days, 14 different accommodations, 5,146km of driving through 4 states and the last 4 weekly vids all done on the road. Travel is great, but right now going home is even better 😊 Next week’s vid will

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Welcoming the Polish Government to Have I Been Pwned

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Continuing the rollout of Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) to national governments around the world, today I’m very happy to welcome Poland to the service! The Polish CSIRT GOV is now the 34th onboard the service and has free and open access to APIs allowing them to query

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