Swimming Pools, Pee, and Trying to Delete Your Data From the Internet

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I can’t recall if someone else originally came up with this saying or if I said it in some off-the-cuff comment and it just propagated, but since it’s often attributed back to me, I’ll relay it here regardless:

Trying to delete yourself

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Weekly Update 510: Live From Mallorca with Scott Helme

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How’s the view?! Back to business, it’s now 8 years ago that Scott and I thought it would be a cool idea to build Why no HTTPS? We used the site to shame companies for not implementing their transport later security property, and to make it

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Weekly Update 509

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I know enough about home cinema audiovisual to know there’s a lot I don’t know. It’s conscious incompetence, if you like, which is different to the unconscious incompetence most people have on the topic. That’s not to sound derogatory (it’s

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Weekly Update 508

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Light switches. How on earth is it so hard to find decent light switches?! It sounds ridiculous until you actually spend enough time looking for ones that meet two simple criteria:

  1. Aren’t stateful (switch is up or down, has to be push-button)
  2. Looks good

Now, I’

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Weekly Update 507

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1,000 breaches is one hell of a milestone. It’s not just the process of getting data, verifying it, loading it, sending notifications etc, it’s all the other stuff that goes into keeping the whole thing afloat. Legal docs. Trademarks. Accounting. Agreements. The most mind-numbingly boring

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Welcoming the Philippine Government to Have I Been Pwned

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Today, we welcome the 46th government onboarded to Have I Been Pwned’s free gov service: the Philippines.

The Philippines’ National CERT, working with the Department of Information and Communications Technology, now has access to monitor official government domains against the data in HIBP. This gives their Cyber

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1,000 Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag is Worse Than Ever

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Today, I loaded the 1,000th data breach into Have I Been Pwned. Reflecting on that milestone number, I pondered how to mark the occasion in writing, and what immediately came to mind was a very simple question: why is it still needed? Especially considering the emergence of privacy regulations

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Weekly Update 506

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I’m finding it quite fascinating to watch the current spate of ShinyHunters breaches and dumps. There’s the obvious criminality of it all, but then there’s also the response from organisations (or lack thereof, as it relates to disclosure to victims), the appearance and disappearance

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Welcoming the Bhutanese Government to Have I Been Pwned

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Today, we welcome the 45th government onboarded to Have I Been Pwned’s free gov service: Bhutan. The Bhutan Computer Incident Response Team, BtCIRT, now has access to monitor Bhutanese government domains against the data in HIBP. As Bhutan’s national CIRT, BtCIRT is responsible for consuming threat

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Weekly Update 505

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Well, that didn’t last long! Recording this on Saturday morning my time, I observed ShinyHunters having gone quiet since the massive haul that would have been the Instructure ransom. It was two weeks almost to the hour since I’d first heard rumour of payment being made,

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