Collaborate Disseminate
There’s a lot of people getting themselves worked up about the Australian census whose five-yearly cycle falls due today. For the most part, it’s like any other normal census we’ve done ever since I can remember, but what’s changed this year is the duration for which names and addresses will
Continue reading What you should and shouldn’t worry about when you complete today’s census
You know the best way to sell security products? Scare the shit out of people. I mean make them really genuinely fearful that if they don’t have the thing you’re pushing that a bunch of nasty stuff will happen to them. It’s the Donald Trump school of winning hearts and
Continue reading Stop the madness! Ridiculous security scare tactics revealed
I tweeted this the other day, and the internet was not pleased:
HTTPS is slow. No – wait – is it HTTP that’s slow?! https://t.co/T49GG7oCaK pic.twitter.com/cfnYOpXMWc
— Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) July 8, 2016
In fact, a bunch of the internet was pretty
Continue reading I wanna go fast: HTTPS’ massive speed advantage
This question in the title of this post comes up after pretty much every data breach I load so I thought I’d answer it here once and for all then direct inquisitive Have I been pwned (HIBP) users when confusion ensues in the future. Let me outline a number of
Continue reading Why am I in a data breach for a site I never signed up to?
If you follow my Twitters, you may have noticed I can be a bit, well, “despondent” about the climate in Europe. No, not the whole Brexit political climate situation, I mean more like this:
Crowds of people in Birmingham waiting for summer before they go outside: pic.twitter.com/7ImjmCt4Bf
Continue reading Round 4 of Europe for 2016: More talks, more workshops
Two of the things you’ll have found me most frequently writing about on this blog are “cloud” and “security”. Whilst the latter seems to have been what I’ve gravitated towards most in recent years, the former is something I’ve very heavily involved in, particularly with my work on Have I
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Data breaches can be shady business. There’s obviously the issue of sites being hacked in the first place which is not just shady, but downright illegal. Then there’s the way this information is redistributed, the anonymous identities that deal with it and the various motives people have for bringing this
Continue reading Introducing unverified breaches to Have I been pwned
Let us start with what’s wrong with the world today, and that’s certificate authorities. Just take a look at the trusted root CAs running on a Windows 10 machine:
The very premise of having these root CAs on your machine is that they ultimate get to decide which websites your
I’ve had this post in mind for a while now. It’s a little tangential to the sort of stuff I’d normally write, yet it’s something I’m passionate about and has become more topical in the last few days. The catalyst for finally completing this piece came after last week’s reporting
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Some days, it just feels like the world is working against you or in the case of today, like it’s all just going to metaphorical security hell. As much as we like to keep pushing the needle further around the “strong security dial” with things like security headers, strong HTTPS
Continue reading Security insanity: how we keep failing at the basics