Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Yesterday, I wrote the first part of this 5-part series on fixing data breaches and I focused on education. The next few parts of this series all focus on cures - how do we fix data breaches once bad code has already been written or bad server configurations deployed? Best of all, it's about prevention rather than cure.

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Data Protection Report

JUNE 1, 2020

But this is a tricky area to navigate, particularly following the General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR ), since both the ICO and the FCA have started to pay more attention to this area.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

Many people will land on this page after learning that their email address has appeared in a data breach I've called "Collection #1". It's made up of many different individual data breaches from literally thousands of different sources. Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 15, 2023

Here's mine: One of the problems the dashboard approach helps tackle is unsubscribing on an individual domain basis. It was an all or nothing affair that nuked the lot of them whereas now, it's a domain-by-domain exercise. This doesn't fix the pain of doing it once, but it does mean that it's now a one-off pain.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

My views are shaped by a life that's very public due to the nature of what I do and as such, my kids receive more exposure than most (the picture above, for example). For example, my son teaching kids to code in London a couple of weeks ago: Teaching kids to code at #NDCLondon with @CodeCombat. They can't change their passcodes.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 2, 2020

For example, I was regularly asked if I'd ever received any legal threats which is apparently pretty normal for any M&A process, but you can imagine why it'd be particularly interesting when dealing with a heap of data originally obtained via illegal methods. of the company.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 10, 2019

Back in 2013, I was beginning to get the sense that data breaches were becoming a big thing. Increasingly, I was writing about what I thought was a pretty fascinating segment of the infosec industry; password reuse across Gawker and Twitter resulting in a breach of the former sending Acai berry spam via the latter.

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