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Weekly Update 156

Turns out it's actually a sunny day in Oslo today, although it's the last one I'll see here for quite some time before heading off to Denmark then other European things for the remainder of this trip. I'm talking a little about those events (all listed on my events page), this week's changes to EV, more data breaches and a somewhat semantic argument about the definition of "theft".

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References

  1. Entrust are convinced you should still pay them for EV certs (even though the primary value proposition they're still promoting is now gone...)
  2. Scott killed a million bucks worth of EV certs (it turns out that extended validation isn't always so... extended)
  3. The Void.to hacking forum got breached and is now in HIBP (a lot of private messages in there people really wouldn't want being traced back to them)
  4. Garmin in South Africa had a whole bunch of credit cards siphoned off (looks like a classic Magecart attack)
  5. Does a data breach actually constitute "theft" given the original owner isn't deprived of it? (that's a link to the Twitter thread on it, I think the term is a bit overloaded TBH)
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Hi, I'm Troy Hunt, I write this blog, create courses for Pluralsight and am a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP who travels the world speaking at events and training technology professionals