Collaborate Disseminate
When someone passed me hundreds of thousands of records on kids taken from CloudPets a few years ago, I had a nightmare of a time getting in touch with the company. They’d left a MongoDB instance exposed to the public without a password and someone had snagged all
Where does the time go? Feels like not a lot happening then three quarters of an hour later… But there are so many cool, interesting angles to this industry that there’s always something or other happening. This week, it’s new (still broken) tech courtesy of R&
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Now this office is starting to look good! New wallpaper is in and brackets for the shelf are ready, just waiting for it to be made and fitted now. Oh – I mentioned a sound absorbing material that’ll go up the wall in front of me and the
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Well this is a totally different office view! I’m properly getting into working more on the acoustics and aesthetics to make this the most productive environment possible which means this week things are in a bit of disarray due to ongoing works. Speaking of disarray, I’ve
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We choose this photo for the cover because this was when it all started. 18-year old Troy, having just discovered the web in early 1995 and chomping at the bit to do something with it. The full tale of what I first did (and how disastrous it ultimately became), is
Continue reading Pwned – The Collected Blog Posts of Troy Hunt (Preview)
I had a bunch of false starts with this one. I don’t know if it was just OBS or something else, but we got there after several failed attempts and me resorting to reading Gov Parson’s nutty tweets until it all started working. “Nutty”
A lot of cyber things this week: loads of data breach (or “scrape”, In LinkedIn’s case) incidents, Windows 11 upgrade experiences and then bricking my house courtesy of a Home Assistant update that fundamentally changed the Tuya integration. So pretty much “same, same but different&
Lots of little bits and pieces this week in a later and shorter than usual update. See the references for all the details, but plenty of cyber, some IoT weather station discussion and a bit of chatter around career and me deciding I want to do a “Hack Your
5 years of weekly updates, wow. It’s not like anything of much significance has happened in that time, right?! I’ve done these videos every single week without fail, through high and lows and no matter where I was in the world. As I say early on,
Never a dull moment! Most important stuff this week is talking about next week, namely because Scott Helme and I will be dong a live stream together for the 5th anniversary of my weekly update vids. We’d love questions and topics in advance or just drop in on