Weekly Update 356

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Today was a bit back-to-back having just wrapped up the British Airways Magecart attack webinar with Scott. That was actually a great session with loads of engagement and it’s been recorded to so look out for that one soon if you missed it. Anyway, I filled this week&

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Weekly Update 354

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I’m in Thailand! It’s spectacular here, and even more so since recording this video and getting out of Bangkok and into the sorts of natural beauty you see in all the videos. Speaking of which, rather than writing more here (whilst metres away from the most

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Weekly Update 353

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This feels like a week of minor frustrations with little real world consequence but they just bugged the hell out of me. Couldn’t record in my office due to a weird ground loop problem, my Home Assistant instance was unexpectedly rebooting, the Yale IoT door locks had near

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Weekly Update 352

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Domain searches in HIBP – that’s the story this week – and I’m grateful for all the feedback I’ve received. I’ve had a few messages in particular since this live stream where people gave me some really excellent feedback to the point

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Weekly Update 351

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I spent most of this week’s update on the tweaking I went through with Azure’s API Management service and then using Cloudflare to stop a whole bunch of requests that really didn’t need to go all the way to the origin (or at least

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Weekly Update 350

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And so ends a long period of back-to-back weeks of conferences and talks. It’s funny how these things seem to cluster together at times and whilst the last 6 or 8 weeks (I honestly lose track!) have been chaotic, I’ve now got a few weeks of

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Weekly Update 349

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This week’s update is dominated by my experience with “Lena”, the scammer from Gumtree who tried to fleece my wife of $800. There’s a blow-by-blow rundown of how it all happened in this video and it’s fascinating to think that these things

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Weekly Update 348

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I feel like the .zip TLD debate is one of those cases where it’s very easy for the purest security view to overwhelm the practical human reality. I’m yet to see a single good argument that is likely to have real world consequences as far as

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Weekly Update 347

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A late one this week as I cover from the non-stop conferencing that was the Azure user group in Perth, followed by the Cyber West keynote, then the social drinks that night, the flight back home straight into the AusCERT gala dinner, the panel on data governance that morning then

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Weekly Update 346

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It’s a bit of a mixed bag this week with a very light-hearted look at the death of the browser padlock icon (which has been replaced by an icon that looks like a sex act), and a much more serious discussion about divorce. It took a long time

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