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7 links, first saved October 20, 2011, latest January 17, 2019.
- Troy Hunt: The 773 Million Record "Collection #1" Data Breach
This is a huge dump of usernames and passwords. I use 1Password to protect myself from this stuff, and they have a good blog post on this one. Krebs on Security also wrote about…
- Troy Hunt: Serverless to the Max: Doing Big Things for Small Dollars with Cloudflare Workers and Azure Functions
Deep overview of how Troy Hunt designed Have I Been Pwned? to be very cost efficient to run. It's costing me 2.6c per day to support 141M monthly queries of 517M records. That is…
- Troy Hunt: The Legitimisation of Have I Been Pwned
Interesting background from the creator of Have I Been Pwned that specifically talks about the very grey area that this service runs in, but how it has started to provide very…
- Troy Hunt: I've Just Launched "Pwned Passwords" V2 With Half a Billion Passwords for Download
I use Have I Been Pwned and am impressed with it. I didn’t realize that the creator of that had done this other project as well, to create a database of bad passwords. Interesting…
- The "Have I been pwned" API rate limit has been brought forward - here's why
Three weeks ago today, I wrote about implementing a rate limit on the Have I been pwned (HIBP) API and the original plan was to have it begin a week from today. I want to talk…
- Going dark: online privacy and anonymity for normal people
Last week we got news of the Rosebutt data breach. This is a very particular class of site and like many others we've recently seen compromised, it's highly likely that members…
- Troy Hunt: Secret iOS business; what you don’t know about your apps