Of course it's virtual because let's face it, nobody is going anywhere at the moment. Plenty of you aren't even going into an office any more let alone fronting up to a conference with hundreds or even thousands of people. That sucks for you because you end up both missing out on events and sooner or later, suffering from cabin fever (I've always found that difficult across many years of remote work). It also sucks for companies like NDC Conferences [https://ndcconferences.com/] whose entire liv...

Geez, where do you even begin given how the world has turned just in the last week? I spend a good quarter hour at the start of this video talking about what I'll be doing, namely getting on with business and running a bunch of public workshops remotely in conjunction with Scott Helme. I felt genuinely excited talking about this; they'll be less than half the price of in-person events, no travel, no accommodation costs and we've both run a heap of these remotely in the past too so this is a pret...

I hate dodgy WiFi, hate it with a passion. I finally lost my mind with it a few years ago now so I went and shelled out good money on the full suite of good Ubiquiti gear [https://www.troyhunt.com/ubiquiti-all-the-things-how-i-finally-fixed-my-dodgy-wifi/]. I bought a security gateway to do DHCP, a couple of switches for all my connected things, 5 access points for my wireless things and a Cloud Key to control them all. I went overboard and I don't regret it one bit! Since that time, Ubiquiti h...

This is the big one. It's all HIBP and Project Svalbard top to bottom this week and I've chosen to exclude everything else in its favour. This is just such an essential part of not just the HIBP narrative, but indeed the narrative of my career and what gets me up each day. So here it is, the video insights version to the announcement post from a few days ago. Here's the 11-month journey to HIBP remaining independent: [https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/troy-hunts-weekly-update-podcast/id117645...

Since launching version 2 of Pwned Passwords with the k-anonymity model [https://www.troyhunt.com/ive-just-launched-pwned-passwords-version-2/] just over 2 years ago now, the thing has really gone nuts (read that blog post for background otherwise nothing from here on will make much sense). All sorts of organisations are employing the service to keep passwords from previous data breaches from being used again and subsequently, putting their customers at heightened risk. For example, this just a...

This is going to be a lengthy blog post so let me use this opening paragraph as a summary of where Project Svalbard is at [https://www.troyhunt.com/project-svalbard-the-future-of-have-i-been-pwned/]: Have I Been Pwned is no longer being sold and I will continue running it independently. After 11 months of a very intensive process culminating in many months of exclusivity with a party I believed would ultimately be the purchaser of the service, unexpected changes to their business model made the...

If last week was the week where I felt like I was drowning in data that was still being processed, this week was the week where it came to light. Not all of it, mind you, I've still got ginormous volumes I'm disclosing but it certainly was a whole heap of it. There are some real zingers in there too in terms of how the breaches went down and were handled, have a listen to that and more in this week's update (oh - and hear how happy I am about the way HIBP handled this week's massive traffic spik...

Back in 2016, I wrote a blog post about the Martin Lewis Money Show featuring HIBP [https://www.troyhunt.com/brief-lessons-on-handling-huge-traffic-spikes/] and how it drove an unprecedented spike of traffic to the service, ultimately knocking it offline for a brief period of time. They'd given me a heads up as apparently, that's what the program has a habit of doing: > I Just wanted to get in contact to let you know we're featuring 'have I been pwned?' on the programme next week (Monday 28 Nov...

On reflection, I feel this week's update was dominated by having a laugh at an IoT candle ? And that's fair, too, even though I then went and bought one because hey, this is gonna be great conference talk material! Delivery is going to be much later this year so don't hold your breath, but it could be really, uh, "interesting" once it lands. Stay tuned for that one but until then, here's this week's update: [https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/troy-hunts-weekly-update-podcast/id1176454699] [ht...

This week I'm at Microsoft Ignite "The Tour" in Sydney with Lars Klint. I've spent most of the last couple of days doing the "hallway track" (basically just wandering around and saying "hi" to people) and doing a bunch of meetings with folks here on cyber things. I didn't mention it in the video, but there was also the Azure User Group Wednesday night and a panel here at Ignite last night so definitely keeping busy. Not too busy, mind you, and I did manage to get a couple of blog posts out this...