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  • Welcoming Guardio to Have I Been Pwned’s Partner Program

    Welcoming Guardio to Have I Been Pwned’s Partner Program I’m often asked if cyber criminals are getting better at impersonating legitimate organisations in order to sneak their phishing attacks through. Yes, they absolutely are, but I also argue that the inverse is true too: legitimate organisations frequently communicate in ways that are indistinguishable from a…

  • 11 Years of Microsoft Regional Director and 15 Years of MVP

    11 Years of Microsoft Regional Director and 15 Years of MVP I often wonder how much people in other professions genuinely love the industry they’re in to the point that they’d do it regardless of the money. I’m sure there are examples, but I wonder how many lawyers look forward to doing something in the…

  • Good Riddance Teespring, Hello Fourthwall

    Good Riddance Teespring, Hello Fourthwall If I’m honest, I was never that keen on a merch store for Have I Been Pwned. It doesn’t make the code run faster, nor does it load any more data breaches or add any useful features to the service whatsoever. But… people were keen. They wanted swag they could…

  • Weekly Update 461

    Weekly Update 461 The Stripe situation is frustrating: by mandating an email address on all invoices, we’re providing a channel that sends customer queries directly through to us rather than via our support portal, which already has the answers many people are raising tickets for. It’s frustrating because it slows our customers down (they need…

  • Weekly Update 460

    Weekly Update 460 This week’s update is the last remote one for a while as we wind up more than a month of travel. I’m pushing this out just before we jump on the Qantas plane home… right after they’ve advised just how much of my data was impacted by their breach. That got me…