Weekly update

Not only has this been a super busy blogging week, it's also the week my coffee machine decided to die ? It's not terminal, it's just continually leaking so it's off for a service and I have to fuel my productivity through other means. But fuel it I did and I spent a big whack of the week doing things I hope to talk about next week (namely some major architectural changes to HIBP services), as well as preparing both the Pemiblanc credential stuffing list for HIBP and then pushing out Pwned Pass...

It's a week of tweets! I only wrote the one short blog post this week, but I spent a heap of time on the Twitters arguing with people instead so... that's something? But seriously, there was a huge amount of discussion around HTTPS in particular and some very vocal opinions around its usefulness (or lack thereof), which frankly, had myself and many others tearing their hair out. I'll prepare some great demos over the next few days to illustrate the problems which just seem to be going over the h...

Geez it's nice to be home! I took a ride on the jet ski today which was just one of those typically perfect Gold Coast winters days at a balmy 24C. I cruised around the ocean with a pod of dolphins (probably a dozen of them), grabbed some prawns for lunch (not those "shrimp" you get other places, proper big prawns [https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1012538852236394497]), then sat down here and enjoyed the serenity: > I’ve really gotta stay home more ☀️ ? pic.twitter.com/soi3J7ygox [https://t....

Last day away! As much as I enjoy travel, I love going home and I'm wrapping this post up whilst sitting at the airport in Oslo about to begin the epic journey that is travelling back to the other side of the world. It's been a great trip, but yeah, I like home ? This week, I'm recapping on some workshops, talking about how data breaches circulate, sharing some pretty epic Report URI stats and also covering last week's blog post on the Estonian government providing data to HIBP. Plus, just a li...

We're at NDC Oslo! We found a spot on the floor and recorded this a couple of hours before doing our final talk of the event. In this video, we discuss some of what we were planning to cover in that talk, namely HTTPS anti-vaxxers as Scott wrote about earlier in the week [https://scotthelme.co.uk/https-anti-vaxxers/]. And how did it go? Apparently, exceptionally well! > Best talk of the conf! @troyhunt [https://twitter.com/troyhunt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] and @Scott_Helme [https://twitter.com/Sco...

Wow wow wow! What a week! This video is going out a couple of days late but if ever I had a good excuse for it, this week is the one. Scott and I are in Oslo this week having just flown in from London where we collectively scooped up 3 awards, one each at the European Blogger Awards and the big one (quite literally - the thing weights several kilos), the SC Award for Best Emerging Technology courtesy of Report URI. This is massive for us, and very, very unexpected too. We talk about why this wee...

An exciting weekly update - I got an award! I did write about it earlier this morning, but I talk about it more in this week's update and explain why it means a lot. In other news, I'm heading back to Europe in a few days from now so am doing the last-minute rush tying up loose ends here, finishing presentations and just generally preparing myself for what will be another hectic few weeks. I also killed off the non-anonymous endpoints of Pwned Passwords today so it's k-anonymity all the way now...

Well it's all quietened down here with Scott gone so it's back to business as usual, which means, well, it's not very quiet at all! I've been in Sydney this week talking at one of our big banks and as I say in this week's update, getting out there amongst companies dealing with their unique cyber challenges is always interesting: > #cyber [https://twitter.com/hashtag/cyber?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] pic.twitter.com/CIMDhPfKIP [https://t.co/CIMDhPfKIP] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) May 23, 2018 [...

We're on a beach! It's the day after 3 pretty intense days of NDC conference and the day before Scott heads back to the UK so beach was an easy decision. The conference went fantastically well and, in all honesty, was the most enjoyable workshop I think I've done out of ~50 of them these last few years. NDC will be back on the Gold Coast next year, plus of course it will be in Oslo in a few weeks' time [https://ndcoslo.com/] then Sydney in September [https://ndcsydney.com/] where we'll both do i...

This week, Scott Helme is getting bitten by Aussie critters whilst working from a desert island. He's here on the Gold Coast for the NDC Security event [https://ndcsecurity.com.au/] next week so I thought we'd record the update together so we grabbed a couple of cold ones, wandered down to the backyard and recorded there. We cover off a bunch of bits and pieces related to things we're working on together (workshops and Report URI) as well as some (mostly) commonly held views about HTTPS, EV cer...