Weekly Update 143

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Well this was a big one. The simple stuff first – I’m back in Norway running workshops and getting ready for my absolute favourite event of the year, NDC Oslo. I’m also talking about Scott’s Hack Yourself First UK Tour where he’ll be hitting up Manchester, London and Glasgow with

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Hack Yourself First – The UK Tour by Scott Helme

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It’s the Hack Yourself First UK Tour! I’ve been tweeting a bit about this over recent times and had meant to write about it earlier, but I’ve been a little busy of late. Last year, I asked good friend and fellow security person Scott Helme to help me out running

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Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned

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Back in 2013, I was beginning to get the sense that data breaches were becoming a big thing. The prevalence of them seemed to be really ramping up as was the impact they were having on those of us that found ourselves in them, myself included. Increasingly, I was writing

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Weekly Update 142

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I made it to the Infosecurity hall of fame! Yesterday was an absolutely unreal experience that was enormously exciting:

It was an absolute honour to induct the fantastic @troyhunt into the @Infosecurity @InfosecurityMag Hall of Fame today at #Infosec19. Troy is a credit to our industry and also a really

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Weekly Update 141

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Another week, another conference. This time, Scott and I have just wrapped up the AusCERT event which is my local home town conference (I can literally see my house from Scott’s balcony). We’re talking about the event, upcoming ones, Scott’s Hack Yourself First UK tour, some funky default values in

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Weekly Update 140

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I’m a day and a half behind with this week’s update again – sorry! Thursday and Friday were solid with training in Melbourne so I recorded Saturday and am pushing this out in the early hours of Sunday before going wakeboarding – is that work / life balance? But there’s been

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PayPal’s Beautiful Demonstration of Extended Validation FUD

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Sometimes the discussion around extended validation certificates (EV) feels a little like flogging a dead horse. In fact, it was only September that I proposed EV certificates are already dead for all sorts of good reasons that have only been reinforced since that time. Yet somehow, the discussion does seem

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Weekly Update 138

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After a mammoth 30-hour door-to-door journey, I’m back in the USA! It’s Minnesota this week and I’ve just wrapped up a couple of days of Hack Yourself First workshop followed by the opening keynote at NDC followed by PubConf. All great events but combined with the burden of travel, all

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