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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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

Recent high-profile breaches, such as the Choice Hotels cloud breach which spanned 40 countries and exposed 700,000 records, is a poignant example of a lesson learned. For example, the study shows that when it comes to cloud solutions, three-quarters (75%) of organizations already rely on access management.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 7, 2021

Password-based app access: convenient but risky. The other widely used convention by enterprises is to allow employees to login directly to cloud-based applications such as, (but not limited to) Office365, Slack, Agile, with passwords. For example, Thales offers a combined FIDO-PKI smart card. FIDO Authentication.

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