Collaborate Disseminate
Today, I arrived at my PC first thing in the morning to find the UPS dead (battery was cactus) and the PC obviously without power. So, I tracked down a powerboard and some IEC C14 to mains cable adaptors and powered back up. On boot, neither the Bluetooth mouse nor
How do seemingly little things manage to consume so much time?! We had a suggestion this week that instead of being able to login to the new HIBP website, you should instead be able to log in. This initially confused me because I’ve been used to logging on
After an unusually long day of travelling from Iceland, we’ve finally made it to the land of Guinness, Leprechauns, and a tax haven for tech companies. This week, there are a few more lessons from the successful phish against me the previous week, and in happier news, there
Well, this certainly isn’t what I expected to be talking about this week! But I think the fact it was someone most people didn’t expect to be on the receiving end of an attack like this makes it all the more consumable. I saw a lot
You know when you’re really jet lagged and really tired and the cogs in your head are just moving that little bit too slow? That’s me right now, and the penny has just dropped that a Mailchimp phish has grabbed my credentials, logged into my account
Continue reading A Sneaky Phish Just Grabbed my Mailchimp Mailing List
What an awesome response to the new brand! I’m so, so happy with all the feedback, and I’ve gotta be honest, I was nervous about how it would be received. The only negative theme that came through at all was our use of Sticker Mule, which
Designing the first logo for Have I Been Pwned was easy: I took a SQL injection pattern, wrote “have i been pwned?” after it and then, just to give it a touch of class, put a rectangle with rounded corners around it:
Job done! I mean really, what
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We survived the cyclone! That was a seriously weird week with lots of build-up to an event that last occurred before I was born. It’d been 50 years since a cyclone came this far south, and the media was full of alarming predictions of destruction. In the end,
I think I’ve finally caught my breath after dealing with those 23 billion rows of stealer logs last week. That was a bit intense, as is usually the way after any large incident goes into HIBP. But the confusing nature of stealer logs coupled with an overtly long
Continue reading We’re Backfilling and Cleaning Stealer Logs in Have I Been Pwned
Processing data breaches (especially big ones), can be extremely laborious. And, of course, everyone commenting on them is an expert, so there’s a heap of opinions out there. And so it was with the latest stealer logs, a corpus of data that took the better part of a