{"id":4524,"date":"2025-06-10T00:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T00:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/10\/weekly-update-455\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T00:00:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T00:00:34","slug":"weekly-update-455","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/10\/weekly-update-455\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Update 455"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Weekly Update 455<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\/06\/Splash-Template.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Weekly Update 455\"><\/p>\n<p>The bot-fighting is a non-stop battle. In this week&#8217;s video, I discuss how we&#8217;re tweaking Cloudflare Turnstile and combining more attributes around how bot-like requests are, and&#8230; 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 have been blocked. So we&#8217;ve pivoted again, adding yet more logic to try and give legit humans the best experience possible whilst making it painful for the bots. Fortunately, we&#8217;re doing this with resources that have minimal impact if a limited number of bot requests come through, but it does make for a challenging if not somewhat infuriating experience.<\/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 455\"><\/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 455\"><\/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 455\"><\/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 455\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TmPHvsPbGQw\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--kg-card-end: html--><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"references\">References<\/h2>\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:\/\/www.troyhunt.com\/after-the-breach-finding-new-partners-with-solutions-for-have-i-been-pwned-users\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\">We&#8217;ve now identified the first round of partners to onboard to HIBP<\/a> (these are companies that can help victims &#8220;after the breach&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/haveibeenpwned\/status\/1929769180414595475?ref=troyhunt.com\" rel=\"noreferrer\">ColoCrossing had a breach that exposed 7k customer email addresses for their cloud service<\/a> (looks like this just ColoCloud)<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/merch.haveibeenpwned.com\/?ref=troyhunt.com\" rel=\"noreferrer\">We love the HIBP merch store, but Teespring&#8217;s support is absolutely woeful<\/a> (we&#8217;ll move to an alternate provider in the very near future)<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/haveibeenpwned.com\/?ref=troyhunt.com\" rel=\"noreferrer\">We&#8217;re still tweaking Cloudflare&#8217;s Turnstile to keep the bad guys out and the good guys in<\/a> (that&#8217;s a link to the HIBP homepage which we think we have dialed in pretty good now, see if you get a nice async request or a full page post-back)<\/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-455\/\">Go to troyhunt<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekly Update 455 The bot-fighting is a non-stop battle. In this week&#8217;s video, I discuss how we&#8217;re tweaking Cloudflare Turnstile and combining more attributes around how bot-like requests are, and&#8230; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,135],"tags":[1382,850,629],"class_list":["post-4524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-troyhunttroyhunt","category-weekly-update","tag-bot","tag-get","tag-re"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}