Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 18, 2017

It's finally time: it's time the pendulum swings further towards the "secure by default" end of the scale than what it ever has before. At least insofar as securing web traffic goes because as of this week's Chrome 62's launch, any website with an input box is now doing this when served over an insecure connection: It's not doing it immediately for everyone , but don't worry, it's coming very soon even if it hasn't yet arrived for you personally and it's going to take many people by surp

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Since the early days of his career as a software developer, Derek Tumulak has had a fascination with building things – a skill that has served him well throughout his career in the technology industry. He began his professional path at the tech giants of Microsoft and Netscape. He was a software developer, striving to find “elegant ways to solve complex problems,” he says.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Dear contributors, As you know, the ICO market is constantly changing, and the regulations differ based on jurisdiction. As a US based company with an extensive customer portfolio, Spinbackup wants to make sure we proceed in compliance with the US law and regulations. Our primary focus is to keep our investors, customers, and potential token holders satisfied.

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Kali Linux

OCTOBER 18, 2017

WPA2 Key Reinstallation AttaCK or KRACK attack Recently, Mathy Vanhoef of imec-DistriNet, KU Leuven, discovered a serious weakness in WPA2 known as the Key Reinstallation AttaCK (or KRACK) attack. Their overview, Key Reinstallation Attacks: Breaking WPA2 by forcing nonce reuse, and research paper ( Key Reinstallation Attacks: Forcing Nonce Reuse in WPA2, co-authored by Frank Piessens ) have created quite a stir in our industry because the press touts that it “breaks Wi-Fi” There have

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 17, 2017

It's another Pluralsight course! I actually recorded Emerging Threats in IoT with Lars Klint back in June whilst we were at the NDC conference in Oslo. It's another "Play by Play" course which means it's Lars and I sitting there having a conversation like this: We choose to talk about IoT because frankly, it's fascinating. There's just so many angles to security in otherwise everyday devices, for example: The collection of never-before digitised data (adult toys are a perfect example).

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 20, 2017

I'm doing this week's update a little back to front due to the massive incident in South Africa involving what looks like pretty much the entire population. I've spent the first half an hour just talking about that incident in a way that I hope is consumable for the layperson. I wanted to explain what these things many regular viewers understand as "data breaches" are, why I have them and pretty much everything else I know about the incident in South Africa.

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