Weekly update

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...

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...

Per the beginning of the video, it's out late, I'm jet lagged, all my clothes are dirty and I've had to raid the conference swag cupboard to even find a clean t-shirt. But be that as it may, I'm yet to miss one of these weekly vids in the 2 and a half years I've been doing them and I'm not going to start now! So with that very short intro done, here's this week's and I'll try and be a little more on the ball for the next one. [https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/troy-hunts-weekly-update-podcast...

After a mammoth 30-hour door-to-door journey, I'm back in the USA! It's Minnesota this week and I've just wrapped up a couple of days of Hack Yourself First workshop followed by the opening keynote at NDC followed by PubConf. All great events but combined with the burden of travel, all a bit tiring too (plus, it turns out that emails don't stop coming in when you're busy...) There's a real crypto theme to this week's update courtesy of some of the contents in my keynote, a really ridiculous arti...

It's the last one from home for a few weeks, both for Scott and myself. Whilst I head off to the US for a couple of weeks, he's back home to the UK before other Europe travel then we'll both end up back on the Gold Coast in a few weeks time before the AusCERT conference. This week, we're talking about how kids are so good at circumventing things like parental controls and how maybe - just maybe - talking to your kids and using some social techniques is a better (or at least complimentary) appro...

Scott is still here with me on the Gold Coast lapping up the sunshine before NDC Security next week so I thought we'd do this week's video next to the palm trees and jet ski ? But, of course, there's still a heap of stuff happening that's worthy of discussion, everything from the UK gov's NCSC doing good work to the Reply All podcast I was on this week to new data breaches to the ongoing shenanigans involving kids "smart" watches. And oh boy, the communications strategies of a couple of these in...