Troy Hunt

JULY 2, 2020

Here's how I sustained my performance whilst under extreme stress: I Leaned on Friends More Than I Ever Had Before I realised something very profound last year; I've very rarely discussed my emotional state with friends. I started writing this blog post alone in a hotel room in Budapest last September.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

These accomplices, known as “money mules,” are typically recruited via work-at-home job solicitations sent out by email and to people who have submitted their resumes to job search Web sites. What follows is an insider’s look at the back-end operations of this gang. Image: FBI. HITCHED TO A MULE.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

Something better? Simon Moffatt from CyberHut joins The Hacker Mind to discuss how identity and access management (IAM) is fundamental to everything we do online today, and why even multi-factor access, while an improvement, needs to yield to more effortless and more secure passwordless technology that’s coming soon. Lewis: Good.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 23, 2022

There’s the flimsy, the firm, the enforceable, and the antiquated, and, unfortunately, much of what determines the quality of your own data privacy rights is little more than your home address. This is the frustrating state of data privacy rights today, but you have a role to play to make it better. Just user choice.

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Security Through Education

APRIL 26, 2021

Using our virtual platform, several of our attendees showed up at 8am (coffee in hand) to talk about their lives, their interests, and what they looked forward to from the conference. We were excited to be hosting our second annual event, The Human Hacking Conference — Year Beta! But the road to HHC 2021 was not a smooth one.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Vamosi: How do we know who’s on the other end of a connection, who it is that is logging into a computer or an account online? We’re also toward uniquely human features such as someone’s face or someone’s fingerprint or how fast someone types. Once again you see how such a simple method can defeat biometrics.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

This was a list of 320 million passwords from a range of different data breaches which organisations could use to better protect their own systems. Now all of this was great advice from NIST, but they stopped short of providing the one thing organisations really need to make all this work: the passwords themselves.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Mick Baccio from Splunk’s SURGe explains how ransomware gangs are evolving into crimeware-as-a-service platforms, as one stop shop for all your online criminal needs. William Bangham is back now with the latest on that story. note: this is a machine generated transcript so there may be transcription errors].

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The Security Ledger

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Related Stories Episode 162: Have We missed Electric Grid Cyber Attacks for Years? Home, remote offices, coffee shops and cars- and do so using laptops, mobile devices and more. All that makes once straight forward questions about authentication much, much more difficult, while human behavior remains just as hard to change.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Kyle Hanslovan CEO of Huntress Labs joins The Hacker Mind to discuss recent LoL attacks, specifically the Microsoft Follina attack and the Kaseya ransomware attack, and how important it is for small and medium sized businesses to start using enterprise grade security, given the evolving nature of these attacks. They're typically hard to find.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 2, 2020

So that's the tl;dr, let me now share as much as I can about what's been happening since April 2019 and how the service will operate in the future. I was in yet another bland, nondescript hotel room, drinking bad coffee in an attempt to stave off the jet lag. I was tired, alone, emotional and if I'm honest, at an all-time low.

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Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 28, 2022

He’s a realtor in Ann Arbor, and has personally sold homes for three couples at the company. But here it was, right in our home of the Midwest. What makes Duo safe: Normalizing failure: People at all levels of the company try to normalize failure. They seemed so…engaged. Offers to grab lunch tomorrow. I talk to someone else.

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