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"Pwned", the Book, is Finally Here!

Troy Hunt

One of the worst days I've ever had was right in the middle of the Have I Been Pwned sale process, and it left me an absolute emotional wreck. I haven't been able to put the book down. When I wrote about how I deal with online abuse, it was off the back of some pretty nasty stuff. I'd hoped to have it out by Christmas.

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Weekly Update 259

Troy Hunt

let's link back to it here, just for Streisand's sake 🙂) 1 BILLION queries on Pwned Passwords in a month! let's link back to it here, just for Streisand's sake 🙂) 1 BILLION queries on Pwned Passwords in a month! I'm  back from the most epic of holidays!

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Pwned - The Collected Blog Posts of Troy Hunt (Preview)

Troy Hunt

The full tale of what I first did (and how disastrous it ultimately became), is up front early in the book so I won't relay it here, but it's quite the story. The book title - Pwned - also seemed like a natural fit. The book title - Pwned - also seemed like a natural fit. Somehow. "Somehow"

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Weekly Update 311

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Well, after a crazy amount of work, a lot of edits, reflection, and feedback cycles, "Pwned" is almost here: This better be a sizzling read @troyhunt or I'll be crashing the wedding in ways never done before. Learn more here. Also, I thought they'd cancelled Neighbours?

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Weekly Update 323

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Finally, after nearly 3 long years, I'm back in Norway! We're here at last, leaving our sunny paradise for a winter wonderland. because it's a holiday in America, we've made my book cheaper 😊) Sponsored by: 1Password, a secure password manager, is building the passwordless experience you deserve.

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Weekly Update 234

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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. A big, big week with a heap of different things on the boil.

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When Accounts are "Hacked" Due to Poor Passwords, Victims Must Share the Blame

Troy Hunt

I'll come back to that but firstly, let's all agree on who has a role to play here: The person breaking into the account The organisation responsible for the accounts The account holders themselves Let's talk about the responsibility of each and we'll start with the attacker. link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) November 6, 2018.

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