Weekly Update 357 – Source: www.troyhunt.com

Sad news to wake up to today. Kevin was a friend and as I say in this week’s video, probably the most well-known identity in infosec ever, and for good reason. He made a difference, and I have fun memories with him 😊

Felt really sad waking up and seeing “RIP Kevin” in my timeline. I doubt there is a more well known name in our industry but if he’s unfamiliar to you (or you haven’t read this book), go and grab “Ghost in the Wires” which is an exceptional read.

Kevin started regularly coming… pic.twitter.com/w1UMm7mGa8

— Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) July 20, 2023

In other news, I share a lot more on the upcoming domain search changes in this week’s video and I’ve gotta say, I’m feeling pretty good about them. I spent most of the day after recording this writing code and drafting the blog post and I’m pretty damn happy with each right now. I’ll keep sharing more info via these updates to the extent that by the time everything launches in a couple of weeks, you’ll know it all anyway if you’re paying attention here 😎

References

1. Sponsored by: Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today!
2. If you haven’t done already, go read Ghost in the Wires, the Kevin Mitnick story (it’s a genuinely entertaining read)
3. If you mistype an email address, it will go to the wrong place! 🤯 (the .mil conflation with .ml story has received way more airtime than what it’s due IMHO)
4. Shellys, Shellys everywhere (after feedback from Richard and Lars on this week’s video, I’m pretty sure I’m going to ditch MQTT altogether now)
5. The Roblox Developers Conference had 4k people’s data leaked (goes back a few years and they did eventually disclose, but it would have been nice for them to beat me to it)
6. It’s more than a month ago now that I wrote about the impending domain search changes (but not long to go now 🙂)