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Fixing Data Breaches Part 2: Data Ownership & Minimisation

Troy Hunt

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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Down the Cloudflare / Stripe / OWASP Rabbit Hole: A Tale of 6 Rabbits Deep ? ? ? ? ? ?

Troy Hunt

The Back Story When you buy an API key on Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), Stripe handles all the payment magic. I love Stripe, it's such an awesome service that abstracts away so much pain and it's dead simple to integrate via their various APIs. Let's go find the rabbits! suboptimal: Dammit!

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10 Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals

Troy Hunt

This is part of the opening monologue of the Ozark series and when I first heard it, I immediately stopped the show and dropped it into this blog post. It's a post that has been many years coming, one I started drafting about 5 years ago. This is a measure of my choices. Of my wife's choices.

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Have I Been Pwned Domain Searches: The Big 5 Announcements!

Troy Hunt

There are presently 201k people monitoring domains in Have I Been Pwned (HIBP). Today, I'm launching an all new domain search experience and 5 announcements about major changes surrounding it. Today, I'm launching an all new domain search experience and 5 announcements about major changes surrounding it.

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#ModernDataMasters: Bob More, SVP Global Field Operations

Reltio

Despite the hype the key to success in these areas has always required reliable data to make the systems work properly – and that was a challenge for all of them too – so we as sales and customer success (before they had a name for it) people lived and breathed all the data problems. Why did you choose a Sales job originally?

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Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

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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Building the Ultimate Home Office (Again)

Troy Hunt

I was searching around for a quote a long the lines of you only being as good as the tools you use and somehow, I ended up down this rabbit hole of painters quotes and carpenters quotes and stuff about artists and their brushes. until eventually, I thought "stuff it, let's just write about the computer bits". So here are.

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