Collaborate Disseminate
In the beginning, it was simple. A website, a database and 150M+ email addresses to search. Time has added serverless functions (which run on servers 🤷♂️), code on the edge, new data storage constructs and a completely different mechanism for even just querying a simple email address.
Since starting HIBP a dozen and a bit years ago, I’ve loaded an average of one breach every 4.7 days. That’s 959 of them to date, but last week it was five in only two days. That’s a few weeks’ worth of
The Odido breach leaks were towards the beginning during this week’s update. I recorded it the day after the second dump of data had hit, with a third dump coming a few hours later, and a final dump of everything the day after that. From what I hear,
The recurring theme this week seems to be around the gap between breaches happening and individual victims finding out about them. It’s tempting to blame this on the corporate victim of the breach (the hacked company), but they’re simultaneously dealing with a criminal intrusion, a ransom
Well, the ESP32 Bluetooth bridge experiment was a complete failure. Not the radios themselves, they’re actually pretty cool, but there’s just no way I could get the Yale locks to be reliably operated by them. At a guess, BLE is a bit too passive to detect
A big “thank you” to everyone who helped me troubleshoot the problem with my “Print Screen” button on the new PC. Try as we all might, none of us could figure out why it refused to bind to SnagIt and instead insisted on dumping the entire
This week I’m in Hong Kong, and the day after recording, I gave the talk shown in the image above at INTERPOL’s Cybercrime Expert Group. I posted a little about this on Facebook and LinkedIn, but thought I’d expand on what really stuck with
It’s the discussion about the reaction of some people in the UK regarding their impending social media ban for under 16s that bugged me most. Most noteably was the hand-waving around “the gov is just trying to siphon up all our IDs” and “this means
I thought Scott would cop it first when he posted about what his solar system really cost him last year. “You’re so gonna get that stupid AI-slop response from some people”, I joked. But no, he got other stupid responses instead! And I got the AI-slop
I’m in Oslo! Flighty is telling me I’ve flown in or out of here 43 times since a visit in 2014 set me on a new path professionally and, many years later, personally. It’s special here, like a second home that just feels…