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  • Weekly Update 477

    Weekly Update 477 What. A. Week. It wasn’t just the preceding weeks of technical pain as we tried to work out how to get this data loaded, it was all the subsequent queries we had to deal with too. Some of them are totally understandable, whilst others just resulted in endless facepalms 🤦‍♂️ But we…

  • Weekly Update 476

    Weekly Update 476 The 2 billion email address stealer log breach I talk about this week is almost ready to go at the time of writing. It’s been massively time-consuming, massively expensive (we turned the cloud up to 11) and enormously frustrating. I’ve written about why in the draft blog post, but once you get…

  • Get Pwned, Get Local Advice From a Trusted Gov Source

    Get Pwned, Get Local Advice From a Trusted Gov Source We were recently travelling to faraway lands, doing meet and greets with gov partners, when one of them posed an interesting idea: What if people from our part of the world could see a link through to our local resource on data breaches provided by…

  • Weekly Update 455

    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 traffic that, upon further investigation, should…

  • Weekly Update 441

    Weekly Update 441 Processing data breaches (especially big ones), can be extremely laborious. And, of course, everyone commenting on them is an expert, so there’s a heap of opinions out there. And so it was with the latest stealer logs, a corpus of data that took the better part of a month to process. And…

  • Weekly Update 440

    Weekly Update 440 Wait – it’s Tuesday already?! When you listen to this week’s (ok, last week’s) video, you’ll probably get the sense I was a bit overloaded. Yeah, so that didn’t stop, and the stealer log processing and new feature building just absolutely swamped me. Plus, I spent from then until now in Sydney…