I've been teaching my 13-year old son Ari how to code since I first got him started on Scratch many years ago, and gradually progressed through to the current day where he's getting into Python in Visual Studio Code. As I was writing the new domain search API for Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) over the course of this year, I was trying to explain to him how powerful APIs are: Think of HIBP as one website that does pretty much one thing; you load it in your browser and search through data breaches whi...

So about those domain searches... 😊 The new subscription model launched this week and as many of you know from your own past experiences, pushing major new code live is always a bit of a nail-biting exercise. It went out silently on Sunday morning, nothing major broke so I published the blog post Monday afternoon then emailed all the existing API key subscribers Tuesday morning and now here we are! One thing I talk a bit about in the video today are the 2 new APIs someone reached out and reque...

This is a big one. A massive one. It's the culmination of a solid 7 months of work that finally, as of now, is live. The full back story is in my blog post from mid-June about The Big 5 Announcements but to save you trawling through all of that, here are the cliff notes: 1. Domain searches in HIBP are resource intensive and the impact was becoming increasingly obvious 2. More than half the Fortune 500 are using this feature, along with a who's who of big brands 3. We decided to introduce pri...

Somewhere in the next few hours from publishing this post, I'll finally push the HIBP domain search changes live. I've been speaking about it a lot in these videos over recent weeks so many of you have already know what it entails, but it's the tip of the iceberg you've seen publicly. This is the culmination of 7 months of work to get this model right with a ridiculous amount of background effort having gone into it. Case in point: read my pain from last night about converting thousands of words...

IoT, breaches and largely business as usual so I'll skip that in the intro to this post and jump straight to the end: the impending HIBP domain search changes. As I say in the vid, I really value people's feedback on this so if nothing else, please skip through to 48:15, listen to that section and let me know what you think. By the time I do next week's vid my hope is that all the coding work is done and I'm a couple of days out from shipping it, so now is your time to provide input if you think...

Sad news to wake up to today. Kevin was a friend and as I say in this week's video, probably the most well-known identity in infosec ever, and for good reason. He made a difference, and I have fun memories with him 😊 Felt really sad waking up and seeing “RIP Kevin” in my timeline. I doubt there is a more well known name in our industry but if he’s unfamiliar to you (or you haven’t read this book), go and grab “Ghost in the Wires” which is an exceptional read. Kevin started regularly coming… p...

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's update with a bunch of random things from the week. I especially enjoyed discussing the HIBP domain search progress and as I say in the video, talking through it with other people really helps crystalise things so I think I'll kee...

Each year since 2011, Microsoft has sent me a lovely email around this time: I've been fortunate enough to find a passion in life that has allowed me to do what I love and make a great living out of it all whilst contributing to the community in a meaningful and impactful way. In last year's MVP announcement blog post, I talked about one of my favourite contributions of all that year being the Pwned Passwords ingestion pipeline for the FBI. This year, they sent me something nice in return: Thi...

Alrighty, "The Social Media". Without adding too much here as I think it's adequately covered in the video, since last week we've had another change at Twitter that has gotten some people cranky (rate limits) and another social media platform to jump onto (Threads). I do wonder how impactful the 1k tweet view limit per day is for most people (I have no idea how many I usually see, I just know I've never hit the limit yet), and as I say in the video, I find it increasingly hard to tell when commu...

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 amazing scenery), I'm going to push the publish button on this week's video and go enjoy it. Seeya! 😊 References 1. Sponsored by Kolide. Kolide can get your cross-platform fleet to 100% compliance. It's Zero Trust for Okta. Want to see f...