Scott Helme

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CT

Finding phishing sites with CT

I've spoken a couple of time recently about CT and it really is an awesome thing to have. We can now add one more wicked feature to our...

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HTTPS

HTTPS Anti-Vaxxers; dispelling common arguments against securing the web

The web is moving to HTTPS, it has been for many years. We've seen an acceleration in the progress in recent months but we still have a long...

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EU Security Blogger Awards

European Security Blogger Awards: Most Educational Blog!

I'm really happy to announce that I'm now an award winning blogger having scooped 'Most Educational Blog' at the EU Security Blogger Awards 2018...

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Report URI

Report URI is the Best Emerging Technology 2018

Wow, what a blog title that is! I can't begin to explain how insanely awesome it is to be telling everyone that Report URI was crowned the '...

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Ansible

Managing servers with Ansible

We've undergone some pretty significant changes with our infrastructure at Report URI and one of the things that's made those changes a lot easier to handle...

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Report URI

When logging causes security incidents; What we learned from GitHub and Twitter

You may have seen the news recently about Twitter and GitHub having accidentally logged sensitive information like passwords in their applications or server logs. Logging is great and it provides...

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Expect-CT

CT is coming, are you ready?

We're living in a pretty awesome time right now as we observe significant advances being made in the TLS/PKI ecosystem all around us. One of those advances...

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Cryptojacking

Coinhive need to tidy up their act

Coinhive have been in the news a lot lately and we often hear about them when a site has suffered a cryptojacking attack. They are the easiest way to get...

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chrome

Adding Expect-CT and Expect-Staple entries to the HSTS Preload List

Two of the new reporting features in https://report-uri.com currently require additions to the HSTS Preload List in Chromium. Here's a quick guide on how to request...

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EV

When your CA turns against you

For those that read my blog often you may have seen me talk about EV certificates before. From a technical perspective there are many things that I don't...