Let me start by very simply explaining the problem we're trying to solve with passkeys. Imagine you're logging on to a website like this: And, because you want to protect your account from being logged into by someone else who may obtain your username and password, you've turned on two-factor authentication (2FA). That means that even after entering the correct credentials in the screen above, you're now prompted to enter the six-digit code from your authenticator app: There are a few differen...

Looking back at this week's video, it's the AI discussion that I think about most. More specifically, the view amongst some that any usage of it is bad and every output is "slop". I'm hearing that much more broadly lately, that AI is both "robbing" creators and producing sub-par results. The latter is certainly true in many cases (although it's improving extraordinarily quickly), but the former is just ridiculous when used as a reason not to use AI. After doing this week's video, I saw press of...

I love a good road trip. Always have, but particularly during COVID when international options were somewhat limited, one road trip ended up, well, "extensive". I also love the recent trips Charlotte and I have taken to spend time with many of the great agencies we've worked with over the years, including the FBI, CISA, CCCS, RCMP, NCA, NCSC UK and NCSC Ireland. So, that's what we're going to do next month across some very cool locations in Europe: Whilst the route isn't set in stone, we'll...

Today, we're happy to welcome the Gambia National CSIRT to Have I Been Pwned as the 38th government to be onboarded with full and free access to their government domains. We've been offering this service for seven years now, and it enables national CSIRTs to gain greater visibility into the impact of data breaches on their respective nations. Our goal at HIBP remains very straightforward: to do good things with data breaches after bad things happen. We hope this initiative helps support the Gam...

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 keyboard worked. So, I tracked down a wired version of each, logged on, didn't find anything weird in the Device Manager, then gave it a reboot, which resulted in the machine not getting past the Lenovo splash screen. So, I rebooted a...

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 to things for decades: So, I went and signed in (yep, different again) to X and asked the masses what the correct term was: When accessing your @haveibeenpwned dashboard, which of the following should you do? Preview screen for reference:...

I'm a few days late this week, finally back from a month of (almost) non-stop travel with the last bit being completely devoid of an internet connection 😲 And now, the real hard work kicks in as we count down the next 25 days before launching the full HIBP rebrand. I'm adamant we're going to push this out on the 17th of May, and I reckon it's looking absolutely awesome! Do please feel free to check out what we're doing and chime in on the GitHub repository via the links below. I'm sure there's...

I'm home! Well, for a day, then it's off to the other side of the country (which I just flew over last night on the way back from Dublin 🤦‍♂️) for an event at the Microsoft Accelerator in Perth on Monday. Such is the path we've taken, but it does provide some awesome opportunities to meet up with folks around the world and see some really interesting stuff. Come by if you're over that way or if you're on the east coast of Aus, I'll be at NDC Melbourne only a couple of weeks later. And somewhere...

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 is some really solid progress on the HIBP UX rebuild. We spent a bunch of time with Stefan and Ingiber (the guy rebuilding the front end) whilst in Reykjavik and now have a very clear plan mapped out to get this finished in t...

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 of "if it can happen to Troy, it can happen to anyone" sort of commentary and whilst it feels a bit of obnoxious for me to be saying it that way, I appreciate the sentiment and the awareness it drives. It sucked, but I'm going to make damn sure we get a lot of mileage...