Troy Hunt

On reflection, I feel this week's update was dominated by having a laugh at an IoT candle ? And that's fair, too, even though I then went and bought one because hey, this is gonna be great conference talk material! Delivery is going to be much later this year so don't hold your breath, but it could be really, uh, "interesting" once it lands. Stay tuned for that one but until then, here's this week's update: [https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/troy-hunts-weekly-update-podcast/id1176454699] [ht...

This week I'm at Microsoft Ignite "The Tour" in Sydney with Lars Klint. I've spent most of the last couple of days doing the "hallway track" (basically just wandering around and saying "hi" to people) and doing a bunch of meetings with folks here on cyber things. I didn't mention it in the video, but there was also the Azure User Group Wednesday night and a panel here at Ignite last night so definitely keeping busy. Not too busy, mind you, and I did manage to get a couple of blog posts out this...

I don't know exactly why the recent uptick, but lately I've had a bunch of people ask me if I've tried the Brave web browser [https://brave.com/tro914]. Why they'd ask me that is much more obvious: Brave is a privacy-focused browser that nukes ads and trackers. It also has some cool built-in stuff like the ability to create a new private browsing window in Tor rather than just your classic incognito window that might ditch all your cookies and browsing history but still connect to the internet...

Today is Safer Internet Day [https://www.saferinternetday.org/] which marks the annual occurrence of parents thinking about their kids' online presence (before we go back to thinking very little about it tomorrow!) It's also the day the Courier-Mail here in my home state of Queensland published a piece on sharenting [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharenting] or as Wikipedia more accurately describes it, the practice of "sharing too much information" about your kids online. That's a worthy discus...

I've got audio! Ok, so I cheated a bit in terms of recording back in the home office, but the plugs I need to make the Zoom H6 work the way it should (and yeah, I know I said "Rode" H6 in the vid, sorry!) are on the way and hopefully they'll be all good for next week when I'm in Sydney. I'm talking about that trip in this week's update along with the Chrome 80 changes to SameSite cookies not that its hit, the Adult FriendFinder breach and then recapping on a heap of the week's news in tweets. I...

Well that's the audio issues fixed - mostly. The Zoom H6 is an awesome recorder, I just can't quite work out the right adaptors for the mic. I've got a couple of Saramonic SR-XLM1 [SR-XLM1] lav mics and the guy at the DJ store I bought the Zoom from was convinced we'd be fine with just with 3.5mm to 6.35mm jack converters which appears to be incorrect. Someone else hen said we'd need a TRRS to TRS adaptor so we grabbed a couple of Rode SC3s [http://www.rode.com/accessories/sc3] which also didn'...

Alright, let me get this off my chest first - I've totally lost it with these bloody Instamics [https://instamic.io/]. I've had heaps of dramas in the past with recordings being lost and the first time I do a 3-person weekly update only 2 of them recorded (mine being the exception). I was left with a zero-byte file on my unit which we tried to recover to no avail. It's not just that; the mobile app is clunky AF (Scott was demonstrating how many times he had to mash a button on his just to get it...

Geez time flies. It's just a tad under 4 years ago that I wrote about teaching kids to code with code.org [https://www.troyhunt.com/kids-and-code-simple-programming-on/] which is an amazing resource for young ones to start learning programming basics. In that post I shared a photo of my then 6-year-old son Ari holding a Lenovo Yoga 900 I gifted him as part of the Insiders program I'm involved in: He got a lot of mileage out of that machine and learned a lot about the basics of both code and us...

We're in Norway! More specifically, Scott Helme and I are in Hafjell [https://www.hafjell.no/en] and recording this after a day on the snow before heading back to Oslo and the NDC Security conference [https://ndc-security.com/] next week. For now though, we're talking about some really screwy global roaming behaviour with telcos, the Danish gov coming onto HIBP, babies in data breaches and the takedown of We Leak Info. We'll do this again together next week from Oslo and then again the followin...

In a continued bid to make breach data available to the government departments around the world tasked with protecting their citizens, I'm very happy to welcome the first country onto Have I Been Pwned [https://haveibeenpwned.com/] for 2020 - Denmark! The Danish Centre for Cyber Security [https://fe-ddis.dk/cfcs/Pages/cfcs.aspx] (CFCS) joins the existing 7 governments who have free and unbridled API access to query and monitor their gov domains. As the year progresses, I'll keep onboarding add...