Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Slightly different column count to mine (and similar but different to the hacker forum post), and slightly different email count, but the similarities remain striking. So how many "Acuity" companies are out there in total?! And it's called Acuity!

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

As I started delving back through my own writing over the years, the picture became much clearer and it really crystallised just this week after I inadvertently landed on a nasty phishing site. In the end I broke it down into 3 Ps: padlocks, phishing and privacy. Here's the value proposition of a VPN in the modern era: 1.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 7, 2018

And let's be fair to Barclays - it's not just them offering outdated and inaccurate advice about the true meaning of the padlock: Taking a mandatory Cyber Awareness Course. Last year, I wrote a long piece on certs and phishing which I'll come back to and talk about more a little later on. But the option does not exist.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 21, 2019

Here's the exact moment deep-linked in the recorded video: Well that was unexpected. Now, you may have actually spotted in the video that the cert was issued by "DigiCert SHA2 Extended Validation Server CA" which would imply EV. Of course they are! It all started on stage at NDC Sydney in September, more than 8 months ago now.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches. NetScout: Observed 13,142,840 DDoS attacks, including: 104,216 video gaming enterprise attacks. 20,551 gambling industry attacks.

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