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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Weekly Update 293

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Didn’t get a lot done this week, unless you count scuba diving, snorkelling, spear fishing and laying around on tropical sand cays 😎 This week is predominantly about the time we just spent up on the Great Barrier Reef which has very little relevance to infosec, IoT, 3D

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Weekly Update 292

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Well that was an unusual ending. Both my mouse and keyboard decided to drop off right at the end of this week’s video and without any control whatsoever, there was no way to end the live stream! Wired devices from kids borrowed, I eventually got back control and

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Breach Disclosure Blow-by-Blow: Here’s Why It’s so Hard

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For many years now, I’ve lamented about how much of my time is spent attempting to disclose data breaches to impacted companies. It’s by far the single most time-consuming activity in processing breaches for Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) and frankly, it’s about the

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Weekly Update 291

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Bit of a long one this week, just due to a bunch of stuff all coinciding at the same time. The drone is obviously the coolest one and it was interesting to hear other people’s experiences with theirs. This is just super cool tech and I can’

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Welcoming the North Macedonian Government to Have I Been Pwned

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In my ongoing bid to make more useful information on data breaches available to impacted national governments, today I’m very happy to welcome the 32nd national CERT to Have I Been Pwned, the Republic of North Macedonia! They now join their counterparts across the globe in having free

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Weekly Update 290

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I hope scheduling these in advance is working well for everyone, the analytics certainly suggest a much higher viewership so I’m going to keep scheduling these and refining the whole thing further. Other than that, it’s same-same this week with the usual array of breaches, tech

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Welcoming the Serbian Government to Have I Been Pwned

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Supporting national governments has been a major cornerstone of Have I Been Pwned for the last 4 years. Today, I’m very happy to welcome the 31st government on board, Serbia! The National CERT and the Gov-CERT of the Republic of Serbia now has free and complete access to

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Weekly Update 289

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Everyone just came for the Ubiquiti discussion, right? This is such a tricky one; if their products sucked we could all just forget about them and go on with our day. But they don’t suck – they’re awesome – and that makes it hard to fathom

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