Collaborate Disseminate
One of the by-products of an increasingly public profile is that companies want you to promote their things. You see this all the time in all walks of life whether it be product placement in movies, celebs sponsored by car companies or indeed the sponsor banner you see at the…
Continue reading Here’s How I Decide What I Endorse and How I Ensure Transparency
Ah, home! It’s nice at home, I think I’ll stay here. When I got back from Utah on Sunday I checked my TripIt and noticed I’d been away bang on 40% of the year but fortunately, that’s it for the 2017 overseas stuff. That said, I’ve got a bunch of…
I’ve been thinking a lot about the relevance of formal education such as university degrees for those of us working in tech lately. Not just degrees, but various other forms of certifications so for the sake of simplicity, let’s bundle it all up into “qualifications”:
qualification
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Continue reading How Important Are Qualifications to Modern Technology Jobs?
No matter how much anyone tries to sugar coat it, a service like Have I been pwned (HIBP) which deals with billions of records hacked out of other peoples’ systems is always going to sit in a grey area. There are degrees, of course; at one end of the spectrum…
Continue reading The Ethics of Running a Data Breach Search Service
What a week! Epic hardly describes the experience I’ve just had at Pluralsight Live in Utah, not least of which was this stage:
No new writing this week but I did want to comment on the Equifax CSO degree story (and my poorly worded tweet about it) as well as…
Hey, it’s weekly update 52! That’s almost a year’s worth of weekly videos, next week will actually be that anniversary (ok, it’s a day short, but close) and by that time I’ll be over in Utah doing the Pluralsight Live thing. I’m especially looking forward to this event, there’s a…
I was wondering recently after poring through yet another data breach how many people actually use multi-step verification. I mean here we have a construct where even if the attacker has the victim’s credentials, they’re rendered useless once challenged for the authenticator code or SMS which is subsequently set. I…
Continue reading Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security
Really quick intro as I rush between events today: I’m in Melbourne and have just finished a “Hack Yourself First” workshop then it’s OWASP conference time tomorrow. It’s been a mostly fun week with a couple of oddball experiences thrown in, but leave you to watch the video…
I have no idea who it was that first modified Maslow’s hierarchy of needs in this fashion, but I do know that’s it’s never been truer than now:
More wifi things used by more people in more corners of the house. Many people do now consider connectivity to be a…
Continue reading How I Finally Fixed My Parents Dodgy Wifi With AmpliFi
Yep, hit right in the face with a dodgeball. There was blood. But retribution was swiftly mine as I hunted down the kids on the other team. Oh – and I also loaded 711 million records into HIBP.
That’s the real story this week and I wanted to speak in