Weekly Update 264

Presently sponsored by: 1Password is a secure password manager and digital wallet that keeps you safe online

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&

Continue reading Weekly Update 264→

Weekly Update 262

Presently sponsored by: Boxcryptor cloud security: Free end-to-end encryption for your files. Check out the seamless encryption solution, Made in Germany!

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,

Continue reading Weekly Update 262→

You Don’t Need to Burn off Your Fingertips (and Other Biometric Authentication Myths)

Presently sponsored by: 1Password is a secure password manager and digital wallet that keeps you safe online

111 years ago almost to the day, a murder was committed which ultimately led to the first criminal trial to use fingerprints as evidence. We’ve all since watched enough crime shows to understand that fingerprints are unique personal biometric attributes and to date, no two people have ever

Continue reading You Don’t Need to Burn off Your Fingertips (and Other Biometric Authentication Myths)→

Welcoming the Czech Republic Government to Have I Been Pwned

Presently sponsored by: 1Password is a secure password manager and digital wallet that keeps you safe online

For the last few years, I’ve been welcome national governments to Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) and granting them full and free access to domain-level searches via a dedicated API. Today, I’m very happy to welcome the Czech Republic’s National Cyber and Information Security

Continue reading Welcoming the Czech Republic Government to Have I Been Pwned→