Weekly update

What. A. Week. I've been in San Fran meeting with a whole bunch of potential purchasers for HIBP and it's been... intense. Daunting. Exciting. It's actually an amazing feeling to see my "little" project come to this where I'm sitting in a room with some of the most awesome tech companies whilst flanked by bankers in suits. I try and give a bit of insight into that in this week's video, keeping in mind of course that I'm a bit limited by how much detail I can go into right now. As the process un...

It's the last one from Norway before heading off to the US and diving into the deep end of the Project Svalbard [https://www.troyhunt.com/project-svalbard-the-future-of-have-i-been-pwned/] pool followed by Black Hat and DEF CON in Vegas. That's off the back of the last week being focused on pushing out Pwned Passwords V5, loading several hundred million new records worth of new data breaches and finally launching something I've been very excited about for a long time now: auth on the HIBP API. I...

So "Plan A" was to publish Pwned Passwords V5 on Tuesday but a last-minute check showed control characters had snuck in due to the quality (or lack thereof) of the source data. Scratch that and go to "Plan B" which was to push them out today but a last-minute check showed that my "improved" export script had screwed up the encoding and every single hash was wrong. "Plan C" is now to push them out on the weekend with everything working correctly. Hopefully. If I don't screw anything up again......

After a very non-stop Cyber Week in Israel, I'm back in Oslo working through the endless emails and other logistics related to Project Svalbard [https://www.troyhunt.com/project-svalbard-the-future-of-have-i-been-pwned/]. In my haste this week, I put out a really poorly worded tweet which I've tried to clarify in this week's video. On more positive news, the Austrian government came on board HIBP and my MVP status got renewed for the 9th time. I also wanted to talk this week about some of the st...

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...