I've worked at some great companies during my career and worked alongside some great people too. Many of those I still keep in contact with and recently I spoke to an old colleague about joining him on a webinar to discuss bots, bot mitigation and the problems that bots pose.…
I've just deployed a few changes to Security Headers to bring it up to date with recent changes in the industry. Here are the details and how they might affect you. Security Headers SponsorI announced sponsorship of the Security Headers project back in December 2016 and that continues through to…
It's no secret that we use Cloudflare Workers extensively at Report URI and once you're using a Worker, you can keep adding more functionality to it. Here's our latest update on the things we're doing with our Worker! Cloudflare WorkersThere's plenty of documentation out there on Cloudflare Workers and I've…
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…
