Troy Hunt

JULY 13, 2023

In last year's MVP announcement blog post , I talked about one of my favourite contributions of all that year being the Pwned Passwords ingestion pipeline for the FBI. Reading my posts, watching my videos, turning up to my talks and consuming services like HIBP and Pwned Passwords.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

Microsoft blogged about its attack at the hands of LAPSUS$, and about the group targeting its customers. “They were calling up consumer service and tech support personnel, instructing them to reset their passwords. Many employees passed the messages onto the security team and went back to business.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 30, 2022

Four and a half years ago now, I rolled out version 2 of HIBP's Pwned Passwords that implemented a really cool k-anonymity model courtesy of the brains at Cloudflare. Actually, the multiple problems, the first of which is that it's just way too fast for storing user passwords in an online system.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The study also revealed that 94% of IT professionals say their organizations’ security policies around access management was influenced by breaches of consumer services in the last 12 months. Perhaps someday, password fatigue, frustration and password resets can truly be a thing of the past.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 7, 2021

This blog will introduce access management evaluation criteria guidelines and discuss what features you should look for and what vendors to consider for your next employee access management solution. Password-based app access: convenient but risky. Selecting the Right Cloud SSO Solution for Your Organization. Thu, 01/07/2021 - 17:10.

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