{"id":2768,"date":"2025-03-22T00:03:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T00:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/22\/weekly-update-444\/"},"modified":"2025-03-22T00:03:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T00:03:26","slug":"weekly-update-444","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/22\/weekly-update-444\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Update 444"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Weekly Update 444<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.troyhunt.com\/content\/images\/2025\/03\/Splash-Template-2.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Weekly Update 444\"><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to fly! \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf8 \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddea That&#8217;s two new flags (or if you&#8217;re on Windows and can&#8217;t see flag emojis, that&#8217;s two new ISO codes) I&#8217;ll be adding to my &#8220;places I&#8217;ve been list&#8221; as we start the journey by jetting out to London right after I publish this blog. If you&#8217;re in the area, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bsg.ox.ac.uk\/events\/lessons-billions-breached-records?ref=troyhunt.com\" rel=\"noreferrer\">I&#8217;ll be speaking at Oxford University on Wednesday at 17:00<\/a> and that&#8217;s a free and open event. And since recording this morning, we have managed to confirm that I <em>will<\/em> be speaking at a community event in Reykjavik the following Monday morning, and you&#8217;ll see a link on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troyhunt.com\/2025events\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\">my 2025 events page<\/a> as soon as they make one available. No public events planned for Ireland yet, but if you&#8217;re in Dublin and would like to run something the week after I&#8217;m in Iceland, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troyhunt.com\/contact\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\">get in touch<\/a>. Just to round out a big schedule, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/anz-microsoft-student-accelerator\/events\/306801521\/?ref=troyhunt.com\" rel=\"noreferrer\">I&#8217;ll be back in Aus speaking in Perth at Microsoft&#8217;s Student Accelerator on 14 April<\/a> and then it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/ndcmelbourne.com\/slots\/inside-the-breach-secrets-exposed\/736710?ref=troyhunt.com\" rel=\"noreferrer\">off to NDC Melbourne shortly after that for a talk on the 30th<\/a>. Then rest \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><!--kg-card-begin: html--><\/p>\n<div>\n<div style=\"width: 170px; display: inline-block; margin-right: 3px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/au\/podcast\/troy-hunts-weekly-update-podcast\/id1176454699?ref=troy-hunt\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.troyhunt.com\/content\/images\/2018\/05\/Listen-on-Apple-Podcasts.svg\" alt=\"Weekly Update 444\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 175px; display: inline-block; margin-right: 3px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL7LAAxaabizMAXnJe0s3xjQ30q12EVmjt&amp;ref=troyhunt.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.troyhunt.com\/content\/images\/2024\/09\/Watch-and-Listen-on-YouTube.svg\" alt=\"Weekly Update 444\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 118px; display: inline-block; margin-right: 3px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/7jMtKFohdrw6qmz8AkLqit?ref=troy-hunt\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.troyhunt.com\/content\/images\/2019\/10\/spotify.svg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"Weekly Update 444\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 120px; display: inline-block;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/troy-hunt-weekly-update\/playlists\/podcast.rss?ref=troy-hunt\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.troyhunt.com\/content\/images\/2018\/07\/Download-via-RSS.svg\" alt=\"Weekly Update 444\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fjRTin0iIAk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--kg-card-end: html--><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"references\">References<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/report-uri.com\/?src=troyhunt.com&amp;ref=troyhunt.com\" rel=\"noopener\">Sponsored by:\u00a0Report URI: Guarding you from rogue JavaScript! Don\u2019t get pwned; get real-time alerts &amp; prevent breaches #SecureYourSite<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cloudflare.com\/password-reuse-rampant-half-user-logins-compromised\/?ref=troyhunt.com\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Cloudflare has found almost half of the passwords people use on their customers&#8217; sites are compromised<\/a> (but somehow, that&#8217;s not the story that got many people&#8217;s attention)<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/developers.cloudflare.com\/waf\/detections\/leaked-credentials\/?ref=troyhunt.com\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Cloudflare&#8217;s stats were gathered via their leaked credential detection service<\/a> (one of the sources they use for this is Have I Been Pwned&#8217;s Pwned Passwords)<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/chatgpt.com\/share\/67dcf76f-17dc-800f-8512-f11cb6cd8105?ref=troyhunt.com\" rel=\"noreferrer\">And no, a password alone is not personally identifiable information<\/a> (yes, that&#8217;s an AI-generated response because, no, you can&#8217;t find any reference whatsoever to a password being PII in any formal gov docs)<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/puppygirl-hacker-polycule-leak?ref=troyhunt.com\" rel=\"noreferrer\">The Lexipol breach went into HIBP<\/a> (apparently it was carried out by &#8220;Puppygirl Hacker Polycule&#8221;, who&#8217;d have thunk it?!)<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/03\/19\/data-breach-at-stalkerware-spyx-affects-close-to-2-million-including-thousands-of-apple-users\/?ref=troyhunt.com\" rel=\"noreferrer\">SpyX also went in<\/a> (Zack reckons this is the 25th spyware service to be breached since 2017)<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/haveIBeenPwned\/ux-rebuild\/?ref=troyhunt.com\" rel=\"noreferrer\">We&#8217;re smashing out front end work for the HIBP UX rebuild<\/a> (go and check out that repo, submit issues and join in on the discussion, we&#8217;d love your input)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Troy Hunt<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.troyhunt.com\/weekly-update-444\/\">Go to troyhunt<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekly Update 444 It&#8217;s time to fly! \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf8 \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddea That&#8217;s two new flags (or if you&#8217;re on Windows and can&#8217;t see flag emojis, that&#8217;s two new ISO codes) I&#8217;ll be adding to my &#8220;places I&#8217;ve been list&#8221; as we start the journey by jetting out to London right after I publish this blog. 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