I was really excited recently when I purchased somewhat of a dream car for myself. I've long been a 'car person' but having a car that I really, really wanted is something new for me. Wanting to look after my new p̶l̶a̶y̶ ̶t̶o̶y̶ mode of…
I've been using Ghost as my blogging platform for quite some time and I've also been using Cloudflare for a good while too. Recently these companies came together and Ghost(Pro) started using Cloudflare by default. Whilst this is probably a great thing for most, it left me wihout control…
Microsoft recently announced that they were going to remove the XSS Filter from their Edge browser. I have some mixed feelings about this so I'm going to go through them here and gather some feedback from others in the community too. The XSS Filter XSS mitigations were first built into…
Regular readers will know that I make extensive use of Azure Table Storage in both Report URI and Security Headers. As Report URI has grown and we’re now processing billions of reports per month for our users we’re always interested in performance or efficiency savings wherever possible. We…
After the recent major update to Report URI you may have noticed some changes to the free tier accounts. This post is here to explain those changes and the reasons behind them. Limiting Free AccountsIt's 1 year and 1 day since we launched the commercial service that is Report URI…
Last week we announced support for a new type of report on Report URI, Network Error Logging, or NEL reports. These reports are going to unlock a seriously huge amount of really helpful data so it's well worth me doing a deep dive on exactly how you can use NEL…
We've been super busy at Report URI HQ and we have some awesome new features to tell you about! This isn't just a case of new features for Report URI though, these are things that will fundamentally change the kind of information we have available as site operators. Are you…
I recently upgraded my PC with a fingerprint reader and Windows Hello to make the login experience much more convenient, but there was another little thing I needed to address. At a few years of age my PC didn't have a TPM but I wanted to use BitLocker drive encryption…
We've seen a couple of changes in the Chrome UI recently and one of them attracted some pretty fierce criticism online rather quickly. With the removal of some of the URL components from the address bar I was quite relieved so see a simplification of this complicated UI feature. Turns…
Regular readers will know that I'm a big fan of security, but I also believe that security shouldn't inconvenience people. Security that gets in the way will be bypassed or ignored by users and overall is a detriment to the cause of increasing security. I have a strong password on…
