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Marking the 25th national CERT to have full and free API level access to in HIBP, I'm very happy to welcome CERT-IL in the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD) on board. They join many other governments around the world in having access to data impacting their departments amongst the more than 11 billion records already in HIBP, and inevitably the billions yet to come. I'm really encouraged to see the amount of enthusiasm expressed by national government defenders to gain access to breach d...

Between school holidays and a house full of tradies repairing things, there wasn't a lot a free time this week. That said, I've got another gov onto HIBP, snared by 11th MVP award, did a heap of other cyber-things and Charlotte and I even managed to slip in our first COVID shots amongst all that. Next week will start getting back to full steam as the winter holidays end (yeah, it's winter here, I know that's confusing for some people!) and I'm sure there'll be an all new stash of cyber-IoT-other...

A little over a decade ago now, I awoke from a long haul flight to find an email I never expected to see: my first Microsoft MVP award [https://www.troyhunt.com/accidental-mvp/]. I earned the award by doing something many people couldn't understand, namely devoting a bunch of my time to creating things for the community. Not for money, not for glory, but for the love of technology and for the joy of seeing it make a difference to people. All this time later and in a fundamentally different world...

Today I'm very happy to welcome the Dutch government to HIBP, marking 24 national CERTs that now have full and free access to API level domain searches. The Nationaal Cyber Security Centrum of the Netherlands (NCSC-NL) now has access to monitor the exposure of government departments across all the data breaches that make their way into HIBP. Visibility into the impact of data breaches helps defenders protect national assets and I'm very pleased to see the Netherlands join so many other nations...

This week is a bit of everything again, although the main difference this time was an update on the COVID situation we're facing in Australia. We've been largely virus-free (relative speaking) but as a result, vaccine rollout has been really slow (as in about 5% of the country being covered) and following some outbreaks of the Delta strain this past couple of weeks, everyone is feeling a bit nervous. We'll get there, but it's a bit of on add time for us and it's certainly dominated headlines rec...

Today I'm very happy to welcome the 23rd national government to Have I Been Pwned, the Slovak Republic. As of now, CSIRT.sk has full and free access to query all their government domains via an API that returns all their email addresses impacted by each data breach in HIBP. Granting governments this level of access gives them visibility into not just the 11.4 billion records that are already in HIBP but provides an early warning system for the billions of records yet to come. I look forward to...

A bit of a shorter work week this one as we escaped to a little getaway for a few days. That said, it gave me some nice downtime to continue writing the book and speaking of which, after today's video we had a regular catch up with Rob Conery and I think we made a bit of a breakthrough with how I intro it so hopefully we're one step closer again to a finished product now (do sign up to be kept up to date with progress [https://book.troyhunt.com/]). That, and all the usual stuff this week (except...

Recently, I've been providing a lot of additional government access to Have I Been Pwned. Today I'm happy to welcome the Jamaica Cyber Incident Response Team (JaCIRT), the 22nd national CERT on HIBP and 11th in the last 4 months. They now have full and free API level access to query all government domains belonging to the Caribbean nation. I'm encouraged by the enthusiasm I'm seeing from governments to use breach data in positive ways that help protect their departments and I look forward to we...

Thought I'd do a bit of AMA this week given the rest of the content was a bit lighter. If you like this sort of content then I'll try and be a bit more organised next time, give some notice and make more of an event out of it. Other than that, I'm screwing around with more IoT things, dealing with more breaches, onboarding new governments so yeah, same same 🙂 [https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/troy-hunts-weekly-update-podcast/id1176454699] [https://playmusic.app.goo.gl/?ibi=com.google.PlayM...

Today I'm very happy to welcome the Finnish government to Have I Been Pwned by granting their National Cyber Security Centre full and free access to query their government domains. API access to query their domains will give them greater visibility into the impact of data breaches on the Finnish government. Finland is now the 5th Nordic country and 21st national CERT to be onboarded with many more from around the globe to be announced shortly....