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"Pwned", the Book, is Finally Here!

Troy Hunt

which I've now included in this book 😊 These are the stories behind the stories and finally, the book about it all is here: I announced the book back in April last year after Rob, Charlotte and I had already invested a heap of effort before releasing a preview in October. This book has it all. Pat Phelan.

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Weekly Update 294

Troy Hunt

It's back to business as usual with more data breaches, more poor handling of them and more IoT pain. Or maybe I'm just a sucker for punishment, I don't know, but either way it's kept me entertained and given me plenty of new material for this week's video 😊 References The book is almost ready to launch!

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Weekly Update 234

Troy Hunt

Cyber stuff, audio stuff, IoT stuff - it's all there! Home Assistant started telling people not to use Pwned Password, and people got pissed (this is nuts, and it deserved a dedicated blog post) Sponsored by safepass.me: Get a FREE password audit on your Active Directory users with pwncheck from safepass.me.

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Weekly Update 232

Troy Hunt

There's probably some hints in the range of different things I'm speaking about this week and the book is certainly now consuming a heap of time, but at least I'm doing what I love. Doing text to speech in Norwegian when the beer fridge is left open is one of the most fun IoT things I've done ??

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Weekly Update 271

Troy Hunt

Coding, IoT'ing, 3D printing and a milestone academic event for Ari: Primary school - done! It's been a busy week with lots of little bits and pieces demanding my attention.

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Weekly Update 231

Troy Hunt

I'm talking (somewhat vaguely) about the book I'm working on, how Facebook has nuked all news in Australia (which somehow means I can't even post a link to this blog post there), yet more data breaches, the awesome Prusa 3D printer I now have up and running and a whole heap more about the IoT things I've been doing.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

ForAllSecure

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. The next day I cut the string, There's a parallel here to IoT light bulbs that change colors. It's like using a hash of your street address, as the password for your front door.

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