Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

I've written before about what's involved in verifying data breaches and it's often a non-trivial exercise. This provided a means of implementing guidance from government and industry bodies alike , but it also provided individuals with a repository they could check their own passwords against.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Particularly when we're talking about public figures in positions of influence, we need to see leadership around infosec, not acknowledgement that elected representatives are consciously exercising poor password hygiene. The most impactful example of this is Edward Snowden persuading NSA colleagues to provide their credentials to him.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 9, 2021

Tune in to FuzzCon TV to get the latest fuzzing takes directly from industry experts. Ollam: So lockpicking has always been a huge part of the hacker world, and the community, both as a hobby interest, and also now increasingly as with faces like mine as a professional endeavor. Want to Learn More About Fuzz Testing?

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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

These were companies spanning all sorts of different industries; big tech, general infosec, antivirus, hosting, finance, e-commerce, cyber insurance - I could go on. The point is the net was cast very wide. We whittled the original 141 companies down to the 43 that were best aligned to the goals I outlined in the original blog post.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 10, 2019

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. HIBP's brand is intrinsically tied to mine and at present, it needs me to go along with it.

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Brandeis Records Manager

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

A recent futurist reading binge has been an exercise in masochism, or deer-in-the-headlights simulation, or emperor’s new clothes realization. Reading through Kelly’s book as a records manager or archivist is an exercise in marathon squirming. Chaotic, Counter-Control Culture . The Rise of the Machines (and Software).

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 3, 2021

differs: For example, because they couldn't find any public discussion about the breach they assumed that @WIRED reporters were "essentially assisting the hacker in his efforts to smear our business" There are *always* discussions held in private about a breach before it's made public. Gab's approach. Coincidence?

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