Troy Hunt

  1. Weekly Update 457

    Firstly, apologies for the annoying clipping in the audio. I use a Rode VideoMic that's a shotgun style that plugs straight into the iPhone and it's usually pretty solid. It was also solid when I tested it again now, just recording a video into the phone,

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  2. Weekly Update 456

    It's time to fly! It's two months to the day since we came back from the last European trip, again spending the time with some of the agencies and partners we've fostered at HIBP over the years. This time, it's the driving

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  3. Weekly Update 455

    The bot-fighting is a non-stop battle. In this week's video, I discuss how we're tweaking Cloudflare Turnstile and combining more attributes around how bot-like requests are, and... it almost worked. Just as I was preparing to write this intro, I found a small spike of anomalous

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  4. Weekly Update 454

    We're two weeks in from the launch of the new HIBP, and I'm still recovering. Like literally still recovering from the cold I had last week and the consequent backlog. A major launch like this isn't just something you fire and forget; instead, it

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  5. Weekly Update 453

    Well, the last few weeks of insane hours finally caught up with me 🤒 Not badly, but I evidently burned enough midnight oil to leave the immune system somewhat degraded and just after recording this video, I really didn't feel like doing much at all. Some congestion and

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  6. Have I Been Pwned 2.0 is Now Live!

    This has been a very long time coming, but finally, after a marathon effort, the brand new Have I Been Pwned website is now live! Feb last year is when I made the first commit to the public repo for the rebranded service, and we soft-launched the new brand in

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  7. Weekly Update 452

    Funny how excited people can get about something as simple as a sticker. They're always in hot demand and occupy an increasingly large portion of my luggage as we travel around. Charlotte reckoned it would be the same for other merch too, so, while I've been

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  8. Welcoming the Malaysian Government to Have I Been Pwned

    Today, we welcome the 40th government onboarded to Have I Been Pwned's free gov service, Malaysia. The NC4 NACSA (National Cyber Coordination and Command Centre of the National Cyber Security Agency) in Malaysia now has full access to query all their government domains via API, and monitor them

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  9. Weekly Update 451

    The Have I Been Pwned Alpine Grand Tour is upon us! I've often joked that work is always either sitting at my desk at home in isolation or on the other side of the world, and so it is with this trip. As we've done with

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  10. After the Breach: Finding new Partners with Solutions for Have I Been Pwned Users

    For many years, people would come to Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), run a search on their email address, get the big red "Oh no - pwned!" response and then... I'm not sure. We really didn't have much guidance until we partnered with 1Password

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  11. Welcoming the Isle of Man Government to Have I Been Pwned

    Today we welcome the 39th government and first self-governing British Crown Dependency to Have I Been Pwned, The Isle of Man. Their Office of Cyber-Security & Information Assurance (OCSIA) now has free and open access to query the government domains of their jurisdiction.We're delighted and encouraged…

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  12. Passkeys for Normal People

    Let me start by very simply explaining the problem we're trying to solve with passkeys. Imagine you're logging on to a website like this:And, because you want to protect your account from being logged into by someone else who may obtain your username and password,

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  13. Weekly Update 450

    Looking back at this week's video, it's the AI discussion that I think about most. More specifically, the view amongst some that any usage of it is bad and every output is "slop". I'm hearing that much more broadly lately, that AI

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  14. The Have I Been Pwned Alpine Grand Tour

    I love a good road trip. Always have, but particularly during COVID when international options were somewhat limited, one road trip ended up, well, "extensive". I also love the recent trips Charlotte and I have taken to spend time with many of the great agencies we've

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  15. Welcoming The Gambia National CSIRT to Have I Been Pwned

    Today, we're happy to welcome the Gambia National CSIRT to Have I Been Pwned as the 38th government to be onboarded with full and free access to their government domains. We've been offering this service for seven years now, and it enables national CSIRTs to gain

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