Troy Hunt

Early last year, I announced that I was making HIBP data on government domains for the UK and Australia freely accessible to them via searches of their respective TLDs [https://www.troyhunt.com/the-uk-and-australian-governments-are-now-monitoring-their-gov-domains-on-have-i-been-pwned/] . The Spanish government followed a few months later [https://www.troyhunt.com/welcoming-the-spanish-government-to-have-i-been-pwned/] with each getting unbridled access to search their own domains via an authent...

Something totally new this week - Israel! I spent the week in Tel Aviv at Cyber Week [https://cyberweek.tau.ac.il/], a massive infosec conference where I shared the keynote stage with an amazing array of speakers [https://cyberweek.tau.ac.il/2019/Speakers] including many from three letter acronym departments and even PM Benjamin Netanyahu. It's funny how on the one hand an event like this can be so completely different to the very familiar NDC Oslo scene I was in just last week yet by the same t...

So first things first - my patience for the Instamics [https://instamic.io/] we're wearing just reached zero. One of them recorded and one of them didn't which means we've had to fallback to audio captured by the iPhone I was recording from so apologies it's sub-par. I ended up just uploading the unedited clip direct from the phone because frankly, after trying to recover the non-existent audio both my time and patience were well into the red. Be that as it may, there's video, audio and a narr...

Well this was a big one. The simple stuff first - I'm back in Norway running workshops and getting ready for my absolute favourite event of the year, NDC Oslo. I'm also talking about Scott's Hack Yourself First UK Tour where he'll be hitting up Manchester, London and Glasgow with public workshops. Tickets are still available at those and it'll be your last chance for a long time to do that event in the UK. Then there's Project Svalbard. I think it'll come across in the video below, but putting...

It's the Hack Yourself First UK Tour! I've been tweeting a bit about this over recent times and had meant to write about it earlier, but I've been a little busy of late [https://www.troyhunt.com/project-svalbard-the-future-of-have-i-been-pwned/]. Last year, I asked good friend and fellow security person Scott Helme to help me out running my Hack Yourself First workshops [https://www.troyhunt.com/im-teaming-up-with-scott-helme-to-run-hack-yourself-first-workshops-in-europe/] . I was overwhelmed w...

Back in 2013, I was beginning to get the sense that data breaches were becoming a big thing. The prevalence of them seemed to be really ramping up as was the impact they were having on those of us that found ourselves in them, myself included. Increasingly, I was writing about what I thought was a pretty fascinating segment of the infosec industry; password reuse across Gawker and Twitter resulting in a breach of the former sending Acai berry spam via the latter [https://www.troyhunt.com/why-you...

I made it to the Infosecurity hall of fame! Yesterday was an absolutely unreal experience that was enormously exciting: > It was an absolute honour to induct the fantastic @troyhunt [https://twitter.com/troyhunt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] into the @Infosecurity [https://twitter.com/Infosecurity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] @InfosecurityMag [https://twitter.com/InfosecurityMag?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Hall of Fame today at #Infosec19 [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Infosec19?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]. Troy is a...

Another week, another conference. This time, Scott and I have just wrapped up the AusCERT event which is my local home town conference (I can literally see my house from Scott's balcony). We're talking about the event, upcoming ones, Scott's Hack Yourself First UK tour, some funky default values in EV certs and then we head off down a rabbit hole of 2FA and people getting fired for failing simulated phishing tests. Next one from London next week! [https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/troy-hunts-...

I'm a day and a half behind with this week's update again - sorry! Thursday and Friday were solid with training in Melbourne so I recorded Saturday and am pushing this out in the early hours of Sunday before going wakeboarding - is that work / life balance? But there's been a hell of a lot going on, particularly around HIBP and I'll be talking a lot more about that in the weeks to come. For now, I did actually get a post out this week and also found myself in a rather unexpected debate about pa...

Sometimes the discussion around extended validation certificates (EV) feels a little like flogging a dead horse. In fact, it was only September that I proposed EV certificates are already dead [https://www.troyhunt.com/extended-validation-certificates-are-dead/] for all sorts of good reasons that have only been reinforced since that time. Yet somehow, the discussion does seem to come up time and again as it did following this recent tweet of mine: > Always find comments like this amusing: “The...