Troy Hunt

These days, I find myself spending more and more time in Europe. Four trips last year and one already this year versus only a single trip to the US each year (which I'm still on). There just tends to be more demand for events and workshops and if I'm honest, I particularly like the place. I've got a lot of history there having lived in the UK and Netherlands before and I love spending time back there sitting the sun at historic locations with a decent coffee or sampling the local breweries. Fun...

What an awesome spot for a weekly update! Just one of the sensational views I saw today, the first day I've completed a full marathon: Ok, bit more than a marathon, 51.19km in total according to Runkeeper [https://runkeeper.com/user/troyhunt/activity/935895934]. Now frankly, I'm not overly keen on running (I just get bored), so I walked all over San Francisco, looked at interesting things, took plenty of photos and had some nice breaks instead. I took my Lenovo Yoga 900 in the backpack (I'll...

I got up this morning thinking "I need to do my weekly update today because it's Friday". Except it's not, and due to the joy that is international travel, I really had no idea what day it was! So bottom line, I'm a day late, but with me heading off to the US for the RSA conference on Wednesday, I'm not even sure there's a lot of point me trying to acclimatise to home before I go. Regardless, this week I talk about some of that travel, how I'm now handling "fabricated" data breaches in HIBP (an...

I hit a bit of a milestone last week with HIBP which I thought deserved a little celebration: > Sometime today, @haveibeenpwned [https://twitter.com/haveibeenpwned] broke through the 1M verified subscriber mark. Having a quiet champagne alone before flying home ?? pic.twitter.com/whIss3OXeO [https://t.co/whIss3OXeO] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) February 2, 2017 [https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/827214872119226368] A million verified subscribers (that is they've received a welcome email and click...

I've written before about how I verify data breaches [https://www.troyhunt.com/heres-how-i-verify-data-breaches/] and discussed it at length in various conference talks. I take verification very seriously because misattribution can have serious consequences on the company involved, those in the alleged breach and indeed, on myself as well. To give you a sense of how much effort can go into verification, last month I wrote about a data breach investigation blow by blow [https://www.troyhunt.com/a...

It's the end of another big trip and time to take the long journey home. This time it's Copenhagen to London, then Dubai, then finally Brisbane and a ride home to the Gold Coast. It's been a busy week in the lead up to the travel too with lots of talks and writing. But the big pone I'm most proud of this week is this: > Sometime today, @haveibeenpwned [https://twitter.com/haveibeenpwned] broke through the 1M verified subscriber mark. Having a quiet champagne alone before flying home ?? pic.twit...

That's it - I'm calling it - HTTPS adoption has now reached the moment of critical mass [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tipping_Point] where it's gathering enough momentum that it will very shortly become "the norm" rather than the exception it so frequently was in the past. In just the last few months, there's been some really significant things happen that have caused me to make this call, here's why I think we're now at that tipping point. We've already passed the halfway mark for request...

Supercar factory last week. Brewery this week. This is how it's done! As I've written before, despite the many awesome moments these trips have, they're enormously busy with a huge amount jammed into them. This week I talk about travels in Belgium, how they crashed HIBP with a massive surge of traffic after some good press, my upcoming Copenhagen workshop and the inevitable demise of LeakedSource which finally happened yesterday. Next week... somewhere on a plane... on the way to somewhere warm...

Yesterday, the website known as "LeakedSource" went offline. It's still early days and there's not yet an official word on exactly what happened, but the unfolding story seems to be as follows [http://www.zdnet.com/article/breach-site-leakedsource-raided-by-feds/]: > Yeah you heard it here first. Sorry for all you kids who don't have all your own Databases. Leakedsource is down forever and won't be coming back. Owner raided early this morning. Wasn't arrested, but all SSD's got taken, and Leake...

How's this for a spot to be?! This week I'm at the McLaren factory in Woking just outside London courtesy of a kind invite from a friendly Twitter follower. On Sunday, I was shown around some great spots in London by another one and as I've said before, I've only ever had good things come from meeting people "in real life" that I've interacted with online. Highly recommended! Not a lot to talk about in terms of new content I've written, but I give a rundown on the NDC conference, the new Plural...