Collaborate Disseminate
Recently, I’ve witnessed a couple of incidents which have caused me to question some pretty fundamental security basics with our local Aussie telcos, specifically Telstra and Optus. It began with a visit to the local Telstra store earlier this month to upgrade a couple of phone plans which resulted in…
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Here’s the tl;dr – someone named “Md. Shofiur R” found troyhunt.com on a “free online malware scanner” and tried to scare me into believing my site had security vulnerabilities then shake me down for a penetration test. It didn’t work out so well for…
Home again which means more time to blog and per the intro to this week’s update, time to catch up on how HIBP is tracking. Here’s the 2 tweets with some stats I mention at the start of this week’s update:
It’s been almost a month since I
There’s no way to sugar-coat this: Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) only exists due to a whole bunch of highly illegal activity that has harmed many individuals and organisations alike. That harm extends all the way from those in data breaches feeling a sense of personal violation (that’s certainly how…
Last day of travel! The weekly update is out late due to a packed week which I endured whilst battling a cold as well which has made it pretty rough. But other than that, it was a fantastic week recording Pluralsight courses and meeting with some really cool tech companies…
I’m in Seattle! This has been a mega week at the Microsoft MVP and Regional Director summits and as I say in the video, I’m actually a little run down now that it’s all done. But I’ve had a wonderful week of meeting a heap of people and seeing some…
Massive, massive week! I’m not trying to make these videos longer (and the next two while I’m overseas will definitely be shorter), but yeah, this week was a biggie. Pwned Passwords dominated throughout, interrupted only by a few thousand new data breaches going into HIBP. But the big one -…
If I’m honest, I’m constantly surprised by the extent of how far Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) is reaching these days. This is a little project I started whilst killing time in a hotel room in late 2013 after thinking “I wonder if people actually know where their data…
In the immortal words of Ricky Bobby, I wanna go fast. When I launched Pwned Passwords V2 last week, I made it fast – real fast – and I want to talk briefly here about why that was important, how I did it and then how I’ve since shaved another…
Continue reading I Wanna Go Fast: Why Searching Through 500M Pwned Passwords Is So Quick
tl;dr – a collection of nearly 3k alleged data breaches has appeared with a bunch of data already proven legitimate from previous incidents, but also tens of millions of addresses that haven’t been seen in HIBP before. Those 80M records are now searchable, read on for the full story:…
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