Collaborate Disseminate
There’s a seemingly endless flood of data breaches these days. Pretty much every day I get sent dumps from somewhere or other, usually websites I’ve never heard of and often dating back to compromises from years ago. They vary in size from thousands of accounts to many millions – and
Continue reading I just added another 140 data breaches to Have I been pwned
Y’know, for all the talk of jet skis, I’d never actually done a weekly update on it. Until today. It’s autumn here and the weather is still beautiful so I went for a quick blast and recorded this one. This week, there’s my Security Sense column on the futility of
Earlier this week, I read a really interesting piece on 3 things that need to be done to save the web. The first observation was that “we’ve lost control of our personal data” and the author went on to observe the following:
As our data is then held in
Continue reading We’ve lost control of our personal data (including 33M NetProspex records)
This isn’t intentional, but I know these updates are starting to get a bit longer. Ok, last week was a bit mega with Cloudbleed and Cloupets, but this week, well, I just talked until I felt I was done. Let me know if you think this is too long, not
There are many challenging aspects about being an Australian. For example, being terrorised by kangaroos:
Being terrorised by koalas:
Or my own unique challenge: not having a decent wifi signal whilst my jet ski is moored on the jetty out the back of the house. This makes every day, normal
Continue reading How I finally fixed the dodgy wifi on my jet ski with Ubiquiti’s UniFi Mesh
Crikey, what a week! Between the two Cloud[thing] stories, most of the last 7 days has disappeared with research, writing, media and seeing the first Cloud[thing] turn into a bit of a non-event whilst recoiling in abject horror as the second Cloud[thing] continued to unfold. This ended
One of the best things I do on trips away is walk. It’s a combination of things really; it’s great for getting over jet lag, a fantastic way a seeing new places and if you do enough of it, a good workout too. I’ll regularly walk 20+ kilometres when I’ve
Continue reading A marathon (and a bit) in San Francisco, Lenovo Yoga 900 in tow
Only a couple of weeks ago, there were a lot of news headlines about how Germany had banned an internet-connected doll called “Cayla” over fears hackers could target children. One of their primary concerns was the potential risk to the privacy of children:
conversations between the child and others can
It has a cool name and a logo – this must be serious! Since Heartbleed, bug branding has become a bit of a thing and more than anything, it points to the way vulnerabilities like these are represented by the press. It helps with headlines and I’m sure it does
I started out doing this weekly update with not much news to share due to being away running a workshop for a couple of days then sitting on planes and in airports for another day. It was only as I finished recording I saw both shattered.io and CloudBleed, both