Weekly update

It's a traveling weekly update this week as I round out a couple of workshops in Sydney and head to Canberra. That's thrown the normal video cadence out a bit with me recording on a Thursday night (hence the beer) and publishing on a Friday morning, but there's a heap of stuff in there regardless. This week, I'm talking about a couple of different data breaches and delve into the Adult-FanFiction one in particular. Just read that thread I link to in the references below, wow... But there's also...

It's the coffee-machine weekly update! A slight change of scenery but other than that, it's business as usual. I'm going to keep this intro super-brief because it's very near beer o'clock and I have a very important task to go and take care of: > BBQ time ? pic.twitter.com/yq5hXOGABt [https://t.co/yq5hXOGABt] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) August 3, 2018 [https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1025220673092767744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] [https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/troy-hunts-weekly-update-podcast/...

Alrighty, 2 big things to discuss today and I'll jump right into them here: Exactis: it's hard to know where to even start with this one and frankly, the more I think about the more frustrated I am that services like this even exist in the first place. But they do and it's worthwhile being aware of them so have a listen to the video this week and check out the links I've shared below. Why No HTTPS? This is Scott Helme's and my little project which turned out to be a much bigger project but one...

This week I'm doing my best "dress like a professional" impersonation as I prepare to record the next episode in our quarterly Creating a Security-centric Culture series [https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/security-culture-creating]. We're putting these out for free every few months and right after wrapping up this week's update, I recorded the next Pluralsight one and that's now gone off to them for editing. This week, I'm still on HTTPS. I don't mean for this to become a repetitive topic (an...

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...