There's a blog post title I thought I'd never write! The journey of Report URI has been long and interesting, requiring me to learn an awful lot along the way. Much of what I've learned I'd never expected to have to learn and marketing is just another one of the…
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I got a DM from a journalist called Jordan Pearson this evening and what started out as a quick comment for an article turned into an investigation of an ongoing issue. etherscan.io Etherscan is ranked as the 1,379th site in the world according to Alexa, so they're pretty…
Yep, you did read that right, this is a blog post about the EU made the Report URI website slow. I've talked about the VAT MOSS scheme in the EU before and here's a little further information about problems it introduces. EU VAT MOSS So what the heck is VAT…
With the continued growth of Report URI we're seeing a larger and larger variety of sites use the service. With that diversity comes additional requirements that need to be met, some of them simple and some of them less so. Here's a quick look at those challenges and how they…
I recently gave a brand new talk at NDC Oslo about how we scaled Report URI from 10,000 reports per month to 10,000 per second! The talk was well received and got great feedback with some good questions in the Q&A too. I wanted to answer…
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 'Best Emerging Technology' at the SC Awards Europe 2018. Report URI Regular readers will know all about Report URI, the real-time security reporting…
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 was that we use Ansible to manage our entire fleet. This really came in handy for a particular, recent event. An introduction to Ansible…
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 valuable information but it has to be done with caution. Other site operators should take note of this event and…
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 is the introduction of Certificate Transparency and the deadline for compliance is fast approaching. Are you ready? Certificate Transparency CT is one…
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 your site be added. Update 2nd May: I wrote this blog some time ago and have only just published it now. I'm…
