Scott Helme

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Certificate Transparency

A new security header: Expect-CT

With the October 2017 deadline approaching for compliance with Chrome's Certificate Transparency policy, sites can use the new Expect-CT header to determine if they're ready. It&...

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CSP

CSP reports now indicate their disposition!

Up until now we've had to rely on GET parameters to identify whether CSP reports were enforced or sent as part of a report-only policy. This added friction...

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report-uri.io

report-uri.io needs your support!

The continued growth of report-uri.io has been amazing and every week I'm genuinely surprised at the sites I see signing up and enabling reporting. I've...

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report-uri.io

report-uri.io - new features, new reports, new tools

Continuing the trend of awesome growth, report-uri.io is now seeing more reports and users than ever before. As new technologies emerge I want to keep the ever growing user...

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MacBook Pro

Weekend Project: MacBook Pro Upgrade

I've had my faithful MacBook Pro a little over 6 years now which is far longer than any laptop has ever lasted. It was starting to show signs...

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Weekend Project

Weekend project: Server Upgrade

I run my own server at home to handle various tasks and whilst it was an awesome bargain when I got it, I wanted to give it a little bump...

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Let's Encrypt

Let's Encrypt are enabling the bad guys, and why they should

I don't think anyone can disagree with the tremendous amount of progress that has been made in deploying web encryption over the last year or so and Let&...

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monitoring

Launching my new server monitoring dashboard: Horizon

I'm a sucker for pretty graphs. I love dashboards. That feeling of knowing just how everything is going at any given time is quite soothing. I recently replaced...

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azure

Azure Functions with the PHP Storage SDK

I recently made some changes to report-uri.io [https://report-uri.io] to introduce some sensible usage limits. As part of those limits I'd already introduced the inbound rate...

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crawl

Alexa Top 1 Million Analysis - Feb 2017

It's time for the 4th instalment of my Alexa Top 1 Million scan and I've added a heap of new metrics to the crawler for analysis....