Weekly Update 300

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Well, we’re about 2,000km down on this trip and are finally in Melbourne, which was kinda the point of the drive in the first place (things just escalated after that). The whole journey is going into a long tweet thread you can find below (or mute –

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Weekly Update 299

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How on earth does an enterprise rack-mounted NAS not come with rails to actually install it in the rack?! So yeah, that’s what’s in the box, something that should have been in the original box and not in a separate purchase. Just to add to the

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Welcoming the Indonesian Government to Have I Been Pwned

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Four years ago now, I started making domains belonging to various governments around the world freely searchable via a set of APIs in Have I Been Pwned. Today, I’m very happy to welcome the 33rd government, Indonesia! As of now, the Indonesian National CERT managed under the National

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Weekly Update 297

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So I basically spent my whole day yesterday playing with Ubiquiti gear and live-tweeting the experience 😊 This was an unapologetically geeky pleasure and it pretty much dominates this week’s video but hey, it’s a fun topic. Still, there’s a bunch of data breach

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Weekly Update 296

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Data breaches, 3D printing and passwords – just the usual variety of things this week. More specifically, that really cool Pwned Passwords downloader that I know a bunch of people have been waiting on, and now we’ve finally released. It hits the existing k-anonymity API over 1 million

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Downloading Pwned Passwords Hashes with the HIBP Downloader

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Just before Christmas, the promise to launch a fully open source Pwned Passwords fed with a firehose of fresh data from the FBI and NCA finally came true. We pushed out the code, published the blog post, dusted ourselves off and that was that. Kind of – there was just

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Weekly Update 295

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A short one this week as the previous 7 days disappeared with AusCERT and other commitments. Geez it was nice to not only be back at an event, but out there socialising and attending all the related things that tend to go along with it. I’ll leave you

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Weekly Update 294

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It’s back to business as usual with more data breaches, more poor handling of them and more IoT pain. I think on all those fronts there’s a part of me that just likes the challenge and the opportunity to fix a broken thing. Or maybe I&

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