Collaborate Disseminate
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
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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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
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&
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
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
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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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’
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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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