Speaking

That’s right folks, I’m finally getting over to London! I’ve made so many awesome connections there over the years (hi Tesco [https://www.troyhunt.com/2012/07/lessons-in-website-security-anti.html]!) and despite getting around quite a bit of late, I haven’t had the opportunity to actually spend time in the UK. All that changes in Jan and it’s thanks to the awesome guys at NDC [http://www.ndc-london.com/]! [http://www.ndc-london.com/] I actually spent a year living in London over the turn of t...

I’m very happy to be heading back to the US in a couple of months, this time to keynote at OWASP’s AppSecUSA in San Fransisco [https://2015.appsecusa.org/]. I had a great time in Amsterdam only a couple of months ago keynoting at AppSecEU as well [https://www.troyhunt.com/2015/02/app-sec-in-europe.html] and the whole event was just a heap of fun. It was a really good mix of security pros and developers, each bringing their own strengths to the show and making for some really interesting talks...

Recent I wrote about Speaker style bingo [https://www.troyhunt.com/2015/06/speaker-style-bingo-10-presentation.html] which called out a bunch of common anti-patterns I see (and indeed have done myself) in technical talks. If I’m honest, I’m a bit surprised at how much attention that post garnered and it appears to have really resonated with people. When I wrote that post, I was back home but between speaking events in Europe so was both reflecting on the talks I’d just done and preparing for the...

I had a crazy trip to the Norwegian Developers Conference in Oslo this month; 2 days of workshops, a user group presentation, 2 conference talks, a podcast and a panel discussion. Despite the craziness of it all though, I was massively pleased that after the dust settled on the more than 150 speakers presenting over 200 talks, I found myself up here: Those little buzzers in front of the screen were hit on the way out and it so happened that I had a huge number of the green ones selected for...

For the first time in about as long as I can remember, I’m at a conference and not actually presenting anything. It’s enormously liberating actually and it’s allowed me to soak up a heap of info without being preoccupied with actually, well, doing stuff. Mind you, I’m chairing half a dozen sessions at AusCERT 2015 but that amounts to introducing someone, sitting back to enjoy their talk then thanking them very much. Anyway, all this sitting around and watching other people talk about technology...

Back in December, I was privileged enough to be asked along to the Yow! Conference [http://yowconference.com.au/] road show down here in Australia. I say “road show” as myself and a bunch of speakers from around the world spent a couple of days in Melbourne, a weekend up in sunny Queensland, a couple of days in Brisbane then jetted down to Sydney and spent a couple of days there. It was pretty much the same content in each city, but obviously different audiences. This was my first Yow! and it w...

A little while back I wrote about The Conversation [https://www.troyhunt.com/2015/01/introducing-secure-account-management.html], that’s the one I often have with developers looking to build web applications which need to manage accounts but who perhaps haven’t quite thought through all the ins and outs of it. That was also the launch of a new Pluralsight course Secure Account Management Fundamentals [http://www.pluralsight.com/courses/secure-account-management-fundamentals] which goes through...

Through what I can only describe as enormously fortuitous circumstances (and I’ll better qualify that in a later post), I have the bandwidth to do a bunch of things over the next few months that previous commitments kept me from. One of the immediate things I’m now doing is saying “yes” when I previously had to decline. Yes to conferences. Yes to training. Yes to consulting and in the context of this blog post, yes to folks in the EU. I’m off to Europe a couple of times over the coming months f...

For many regular readers here, this is probably not overly surprising: some of your apps may do nasty things. Yes, yes, we’re all very shocked about this but all jokes aside, it’s a rather nasty problem that kids in particular are at risk of. There was a piece a few days back on Channel 4 in the UK about Apps, ads and what they get from your phone [http://blogs.channel4.com/geoff-white-on-technology/apps-ads-phone/1415] where a bunch of kids had their traffic intercepted by a security firm. The...

It was the story that got weirder and weirder and will likely remain the high water mark for impactful security breaches for, well, probably not very long given this industry! Be that as it may, the Sony saga was unprecedented in many ways and it provoked some really interesting discussions. A couple of weeks back I suggested that many of us are working for the next Sony Pictures [https://www.troyhunt.com/2014/12/are-you-working-for-next-sony-pictures.html] insofar as a lot of the atrocious pr...