John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 25, 2019

How much have you thought about that word in the past two years? Given how much it’s been in the news lately, likely quite a lot. Big data, data breaches, data mining, data science…Today, we’re all about the data. And to get to them, we really need to understand how we’re governed today. First, Data.

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Government IT Marketing ROT 92

ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

In this episode, Stok talks about his beginnings in enterprise security and his transition into the top tier of bug bounty hunters. Vamosi: Like a lot of us, information security wasn’t necessarily our first line of work. But did you know there’s an elite group of bug bounty hunters that travel the world? and such.

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Communications IT Security Mining 40

ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In this episode, Stok talks about his beginnings in enterprise security and his transition into the top tier of bug bounty hunters. Vamosi: Like a lot of us, information security wasn’t necessarily our first line of work. But did you know there’s an elite group of bug bounty hunters that travel the world? and such.

Communications 40

Communications IT Security Mining 40

ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In this episode, Stok talks about his beginnings in enterprise security and his transition into the top tier of bug bounty hunters. Vamosi: Like a lot of us, information security wasn’t necessarily our first line of work. But did you know there’s an elite group of bug bounty hunters that travel the world? and such.

Communications 40

Communications IT Security Mining 40

Troy Hunt

APRIL 15, 2019

Two months later, critical security flaws still remained in some of the watches tested , the most egregious of which was with Gator's product: Adding to the severity of the issues, Gator Norge gave the customers of the Gator2 watches a new Gator3 watch as compensation. But what if a stranger had that ability - how would you feel about that?

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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. So that's where the data has come from, let me talk about how to assess your own personal exposure. My hope is that for many, this will be the prompt they need to make an important change to their online security posture.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

And, but really, when I look back on that, you know, like, that was a shifting time for how people saw and treated the word hacker you know, when I grew up. You had to figure out how to configure Kermit, get passwords to get on. Mine was 2000. of pleasure, or rage, where operational security levels are much lower.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 10, 2021

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. You don't want to give them the hardest exercise or the heaviest weights that will discourage them. The lock is just verifying that.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 9, 2021

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. You don't want to give them the hardest exercise or the heaviest weights that will discourage them. The lock is just verifying that.

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IT Security Marketing Access 52

Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

And importantly, teaching them how to use secure passwords with @1Password ?? Be that as it may, you have a lot of control over who can see what: As a rule of thumb with all things security and privacy related, apply the principle of least privilege or in other words, only share things with those who need to see them.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 2, 2020

They didn't know who I was, had likely never heard of Have I Been Pwned before this exercise and if I was to take a guess, wouldn't have even known how to pronounce it. We whittled the original 141 companies down to the 43 that were best aligned to the goals I outlined in the original blog post. I got a bill for that argument.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 3, 2021

Most organisation begin with "we take the security of your data seriously", layer on lawyer speak, talk about credit cards not being exposed and then promise to provide further updates as they come to hand. In total, the file has 43,015 unique email addresses (including mine) which is a far cry less than the total row count.

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