Presently sponsored by: Do you desire peace of mind? The hackers don't wait, secure your website and mobile apps with Gold Security today. I'm not sure how I found myself in a European award program, maybe it's like Australians in Eurovision? But somehow, I wiggled my way into The European Security Blogger Awards and before even having a chance to come down off the high that was last week's Award for Information Security Excellence at the AusCERT conference in Australia, this happened: @troyhunt hey mate, you just won the EU security blogger of the year. Congrats. I am at the event where they announced it. — Andy Newman (@netdogca) June 5, 2018 That was the first I knew of winning the award and it took me a few days to pick it up hence the delay in writing this post. But wow, it was worth the wait: Reading back through the list of winners on the night, I was very happy to see many other friends in the industry get gongs as well including fellow Aussie Pat Gray (Risky Business), Graham Cluley and Mikko Hypponen. Oh - and this guy: With @Scott_Helme (at a different awards night) learning we both just scored at the European Cyber Security Blogger Awards! pic.twitter.com/RbCoLsKTja — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) June 5, 2018 And why were we so dressed up? Because we were at another awards night, which brings me to the next blog post published simultaneously with this one: Report URI Just Won the Best Emerging Technology! Continue reading...