Ticket sales are still open for the Hack Yourself First UK Tour and to make it even easier to attend, we're now offering Hotel Packages!The HYF UK TourWe announced the HYF UK Tour in mid-March and are running the event at 3 locations across the UK. This is a…
A lot has changed in the TLS ecosystem in just the last few years and and a huge drive towards deploying TLS has seen a surge in the adoption of HTTPS across the web. As things move forwards though, we have to leave relics of the past behind.The rise…
Let's Encrypt have announced that on July 8th, 2019 they will begin issuing new certificates from their own intermediate CA and not their current cross-signed intermediate. Here's what that means and what action, if any, site operators need to take.Let's EncryptI've spoken extensively about Let's Encrypt on my blog…
I've been working with Troy Hunt on delivering Hack Yourself First, his 2-day hacking workshop, for a little over a year now and I'm really excited to announce something awesome. I'm going to be doing a public Hack Yourself First workshop tour in the UK!!Hack Yourself FirstTroy announced that…
It's a little late but here it is! The analysis of the Alexa Top 1 Million sites for February of 2019. We have good news, increased numbers, new comparisons and more!The crawlI can't believe this is the 8th report I've done on the Alexa Top 1 Million and the…
I've always loved tinkering with things and I recently found myself wanting to build something. I used to love playing with electronics, didn't want to build something that was too big of a project and something that would be kind of useful. I somehow arrived at a Twitter follower count…
That may sound like a somewhat contradictory blog post title, yet here we are. I recently overclocked my PC to extend its life!OverclockingWhen you overclock a PC you configure it run faster than it is supposed to. Let's say you have a 3.0GHz CPU, you might configure it…
Is your security up to scratch? How do you know? Would you like to know? Security is becoming more and more important each day and it's something I have a keen desire to keep on top of. Over at Report URI we recently had ourselves tested against a UK Government…
It was our most requested feature and simultaneously really simple and really complicated, but it's finally here. DMARC reporting allows you to detect and prevent fraudulent emails being sent that claim to be from your domain when they aren't. DMARC reports are another valuable source of information that you can…
Let's Encrypt are amazing and regular readers will know I'm a huge fan of theirs, having covered them numerous times on my blog. They issue more certificates and cover more domains than any other CA out there, all for free. Whilst all of these are amazing facts, we are creating…
