Troy Hunt

JANUARY 4, 2019

Funny how quickly it gets away from you, someone just posted on my 2018 retrospective blog post this week and asked why I didn't include my congressional testimony and if I'm honest, it took me a bit to think about why as well (it was in 2017). And then it was 2019. But we're here now so it's back to business as usual blog wise.

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Elie

MARCH 9, 2018

This talk provides a retrospective on how during 2017 Check Point and Google jointly hunted down Gooligan – one of the largest Android botnets at the time. Beside its scale what makes Gooligan a worthwhile case-study is its heavy reliance on stolen oauth tokens to attack Google Play’s API, an approach previously unheard of in malware.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 1, 2018

I want to be able to do these retrospectives - not just on Jan 1 but every day - and say to myself "yeah, I'm happy with how far I've moved ahead" And believe me when I say that not a day goes by where I don't reflect on the last few years and think "yeah, this is awesome!" Here's how I feel about 2017: Blogging.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 30, 2017

*This post originally appeared in Law 360 on October 24, 2017. We’ve seen it happen time and again. New information may come to light indicating the victimized company suffered previous breaches months, or years, earlier. Rumors of cyber-inadequacy gain currency among current and former employees and, ultimately, regulators and plaintiffs.

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 14, 2017

On 28 November 2017, the Article 29 Working Party (the “ WP29 ”) published detailed draft guidelines on consent under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (the “ GDPR ”), which is to come into effect on 25 May 2018. The draft guidance has been submitted for public consultation for a six week period before being adopted.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

The NSA suffered an even worse leak of its secrets by the Russians, under the guise of the Shadow Brokers, in 2016 and 2017. This essay previously appeared in an IETF publication, as part of an Edward Snowden ten-year retrospective. The NSA has rebuilt. It again has capabilities we can only surmise.

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eDiscovery Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2017

To read a retrospective on one of rock music’s most notable airplane disasters, here’s a terrific article from Rolling Stone. 28, 2017) , New York District Judge Robert W. To check out case law that relates to use of the band’s name – less dramatic, but still interesting (at least to some of us), read below. In Ronnie Van Zant, Inc.

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