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HTTPS adoption has reached the tipping point
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That's it - I'm calling it - HTTPS adoption has now reached the moment of critical mass where it's gathering enough momentum that it will very shortly become "the norm" rather than the exception it so frequently was in the past. In just the last few months, there's been some
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Thoughts on the LeakedSource take down
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Yesterday, the website known as "LeakedSource" went offline. It's still early days and there's not yet an official word on exactly what happened, but the unfolding story seems to be as follows: Yeah you heard it here first. Sorry for all you kids who don't have all your own Databases.
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Security Sense: Security Requires Pragmatism
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In security, we can't simply decry everything that doesn't meet the strongest possible criteria, we have to balance this off against the upsides of the approach.
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A data breach investigation blow-by-blow
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Someone has just sent me a data breach. I could go and process the whole thing, attribute it to a source, load it into Have I been pwned (HIBP) then communicate the end result, but I thought it would be more interesting to readers if I took you through the
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I just permanently removed all ad network code from my blog
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I don't mind ads on websites as a concept, that is I don't mind the idea of a message appearing somewhere that helps the producer of said content earn a crust. However, there are other things about ads that I do mind enormously and most of them are due to
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That's a very fair point David and this model only works for me because of the profile I'm leveraging. It's not going to work for many others and we really need a better ad model for that.
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Weekly update 15 (the poolside edition)
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Last one of the year! And yes, it's summer, it's hot and I'm doing it by the pool. However, as I say in the intro, it's only a fortnight until I'll be back in London which is about as far away as you get in every sense. On a more
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Weekly update 19 (brewery edition)
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Supercar factory last week. Brewery this week. This is how it's done! As I've written before, despite the many awesome moments these trips have, they're enormously busy with a huge amount jammed into them. This week I talk about travels in Belgium, how they crashed HIBP with a massive surge
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Weekly update 18 (McLaren edition)
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How's this for a spot to be?! This week I'm at the McLaren factory in Woking just outside London courtesy of a kind invite from a friendly Twitter follower. On Sunday, I was shown around some great spots in London by another one and as I've said before, I've only
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Weekly update 17 (the veranda edition)
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This is a somewhat shorter, very tired version of my weekly update. As I say in the video, preparing for the NDC conference in London next week has been extremely taxing with two new talks and a bunch of other activities to organise. I didn't mention it in the vid,
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Weekly update 16
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It's a new year! Which means looking back at the old year and while I'm there, also looking back at how much we didn't know we didn't know. This week I also permanently nuked all remaining remnants of the ad network given the success of the sponsorship model and that
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Security Sense: There Are Many "Unknown Unknowns" in Security
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The information security world is full of serious incidents that have already occurred but as yet, we have no idea of. These "unknown unknowns" are rampant and we'll see many of them again in 2017.
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2016 retrospective
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I never used to do these "year in review" style things, but 2015 was a really foundational year for me in many ways so I wrote a 2015 retrospective. Thinking about it over the last few weeks as we approached the end of 2016, a bunch of stuff really stuck
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Microsoft MVP for Developer Security, Pluralsight author and international speaker, you’ll usually find me talking about web security and “The Cloud”.
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New Course: OWASP Top 10 Web Application Security Risks for
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We are proud to announce our newest author, Troy Hunt from the land down under, who has just published his first course: OWASP Top 10 Web Ap

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The folks at Veracode put together this infographic that describes some of the more notable Twitter hacks -- or "twacks" over the recent pas

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Westfield Australia 'Find My Car' privacy blunder uncovered
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An embarrassing blunder has been discovered with Westfield's 'Find My Car' feature announced in July, that allowed anyone to access images t

Troy Hunt: Browsing the broken web: a software developer behind the Grea...
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Security Nirvana: Short comments on #STRATFOR
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Short comments on #STRATFOR. Lots of articles popping up on the #stratfor leaks all over the web. Some good, some not that good. Just a few

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