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Presently sponsored by: Malwarebytes Browser Guard blocks phishing, ads, scams, and trackers for safer, faster browsingWell, this certainly isn't what I expected to be talking about this week! But I think the fact it was someone most people didn't expect to be on the receiving end of an attack like this makes it all the more consumable. I saw a lot

Presently sponsored by: Report URI: Guarding you from rogue JavaScript! Don’t get pwned; get real-time alerts & prevent breaches #SecureYourSiteYou know when you're really jet lagged and really tired and the cogs in your head are just moving that little bit too slow? That's me right now, and the penny has just dropped that a Mailchimp phish has grabbed my credentials, logged into my...

Presently sponsored by: Report URI: Guarding you from rogue JavaScript! Don’t get pwned; get real-time alerts & prevent breaches #SecureYourSiteIt's time to fly! 🇬🇧 🇮🇸 🇮🇪 That's two new flags (or if you're on Windows and can't see flag emojis, that's two new ISO codes) I'll be adding to my "places I'

Presently sponsored by: 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.What an awesome response to the new brand! I'm so, so happy with all the feedback, and I've gotta be honest, I was nervous about how it would be received. The only negative theme that came through at all was our use of Sticker Mule, which

Presently sponsored by: 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.Designing the first logo for Have I Been Pwned was easy: I took a SQL injection pattern, wrote "have i been pwned?" after it and then, just to give it a touch of class, put a rectangle with rounded corners around it:Job done! I mean really, what

Presently sponsored by: Report URI: Guarding you from rogue JavaScript! Don’t get pwned; get real-time alerts & prevent breaches #SecureYourSiteWe survived the cyclone! That was a seriously weird week with lots of build-up to an event that last occurred before I was born. It'd been 50 years since a cyclone came this far south, and the media was full of alarming predictions of destruction....

Presently sponsored by: Report URI: Guarding you from rogue JavaScript! Don’t get pwned; get real-time alerts & prevent breaches #SecureYourSiteI think I've finally caught my breath after dealing with those 23 billion rows of stealer logs last week. That was a bit intense, as is usually the way after any large incident goes into HIBP. But the confusing nature of stealer logs coupled with...

Presently sponsored by: Report URI: Guarding you from rogue JavaScript! Don’t get pwned; get real-time alerts & prevent breaches #SecureYourSiteProcessing data breaches (especially big ones), can be extremely laborious. And, of course, everyone commenting on them is an expert, so there's a heap of opinions out there. And so it was with the latest stealer logs, a corpus of data that took the better...

Presently sponsored by: Report URI: Guarding you from rogue JavaScript! Don’t get pwned; get real-time alerts & prevent breaches #SecureYourSiteI like to start long blog posts with a tl;dr, so here it is:We've ingested a corpus of 1.5TB worth of stealer logs known as "ALIEN TXTBASE" into Have I Been Pwned. They contain 23 billion rows with 493 million unique website and

Presently sponsored by: Report URI: Guarding you from rogue JavaScript! Don’t get pwned; get real-time alerts & prevent breaches #SecureYourSiteWait - it's Tuesday already?! When you listen to this week's (ok, last week's) video, you'll probably get the sense I was a bit overloaded. Yeah, so that didn't stop, and the stealer log processing and new feature building just

Presently sponsored by: 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.We're now eyeball-deep into the HIBP rebrand and UX work, totally overhauling the image of the service as we know it. That said, a guiding principle has been to ensure the new looks is immediately recognisable and over months of work, I think we've achieved that.

Presently sponsored by: Report URI: Guarding you from rogue JavaScript! Don’t get pwned; get real-time alerts & prevent breaches #SecureYourSiteI think what's really scratching an itch for me with the home theatre thing is that it's this whole geeky world of stuff that I always knew was out there, but I'd just never really understood. For example, I mentioned waveforming in the video,

Presently sponsored by: 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.It's IoT time! We're embarking on a very major home project (more detail of which is in the video), and some pretty big decisions need to be made about a very simple device: the light switch. I love having just about every light in our connected.

Presently sponsored by: Report URI: Guarding you from rogue JavaScript! Don’t get pwned; get real-time alerts & prevent breaches #SecureYourSiteWe're heading back to London! And making a trip to Reykjavik. And Dublin. I talked about us considering this in the video yesterday, and just before publishing this post, we pulled the trigger and booked the tickets. The plan is to pretty much repeat the...

Presently sponsored by: Report URI: Guarding you from rogue JavaScript! Don’t get pwned; get real-time alerts & prevent breaches #SecureYourSiteIt's hard to find a good criminal these days. I mean a really trustworthy one you can be confident won't lead you up the garden path with false promises of data breaches. Like this guy yesterday:For my international friends, JB Hi-Fi is a massive electronics

Presently sponsored by: Report URI: Guarding you from rogue JavaScript! Don’t get pwned; get real-time alerts & prevent breaches #SecureYourSiteIf I'm honest, I was in two minds about adding additional stealer logs to HIBP. Even with the new feature to include the domains an email address appears against in the logs, my concern was that I'd get a barrage of "that's useless

Presently sponsored by: Report URI: Guarding you from rogue JavaScript! Don’t get pwned; get real-time alerts & prevent breaches #SecureYourSiteTL;DR — Email addresses in stealer logs can now be queried in HIBP to discover which websites they've had credentials exposed against. Individuals can see this by verifying their address using the notification service and organisations monitoring domains can pull a list back via a new

Presently sponsored by: Report URI: Guarding you from rogue JavaScript! Don’t get pwned; get real-time alerts & prevent breaches #SecureYourSiteThis week I'm giving a little teaser as to what's coming with stealer logs in HIBP and in about 24 hours from the time of writing, you'll be able to see the whole thing in action. This has been a huge amount of work

Presently sponsored by: Report URI: Guarding you from rogue JavaScript! Don’t get pwned; get real-time alerts & prevent breaches #SecureYourSiteIt sounds easy - "just verify people's age before they access the service" - but whether we're talking about porn in the US or Australia's incoming social media laws, the reality is way more complex than that. There's no unified

Presently sponsored by: 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.There's a certain irony to the Bluesky situation where people are pushing back when I include links to X. Now, where have we seen this sort of behaviour before? 🤔 When I'm relying on content that only appears on that platform to add context to a

Presently sponsored by: 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.I fell waaay behind the normal video cadence this week, and I couldn't care less 😊 I mean c'mon, would you rather be working or sitting here looking at this view after snowboarding through Christmas?! Christmas Day awesomeness in Norway 🇳🇴 Have a great one

Presently sponsored by: 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.I'm back in Oslo! Writing this the day after recording, it feels like I couldn't be further from Dubai; the temperature starts with a minus, it's snowing and there's not a supercar in sight.Back on business, this week I'm

Presently sponsored by: 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.A super quick intro today as I rush off to do the next very Dubai thing: drive a Lambo through the desert to go dirt bike riding before jumping in a Can-Am off-roader and then heading to the kart track for a couple of afternoon sessions. I post lots...

Presently sponsored by: Cyberattacks are guaranteed. Is your recovery? Protect your data in the cloud. Join Rubrik’s Cloud Resilience Summit.Nearly four years ago now, I set out to write a book with Charlotte and RobIt was the stories behind the stories, the things that drove me to write my most important blog posts, and then the things that happened afterwards. It's almost like a...