Miss Manners confronts copy-and-paste. WinRAR patches bugs. When Airplane mode isn't. How many cryptographers to change a light bulb? Intro and outro music by Edith Mudge ( www.edithmudge.com )...
Aug 24, 2023•16 min•Season 3Ep. 149
Navajo Code Talkers Day. Beta bogosities . Skimming shenanigans . Hooligan hosting . A cybercrime conundrum. Intro and outro music by Edith Mudge ( www.edithmudge.com )...
Aug 17, 2023•19 min•Season 3Ep. 148
An amazing Art Deco computer. Yet more performance-versus-security trouble. Is sound alone enough to sniff out your password? A rap song (of sorts) with a cybersecurity connection. Intro and outro music by Edith Mudge ( www.edithmudge.com )...
Aug 09, 2023•16 min•Season 3Ep. 147
Firefox fixes flaws. The exciting vulnerability that you don't need to be afraid of. Breach reporting rules with lots of leeway. Intro and outro music by Edith Mudge ( www.edithmudge.com )...
Aug 03, 2023•18 min•Season 3Ep. 146
Apple patches two zero-days, one for a second time. How a 30-year-old cryptosystem got cracked . All your secret are belong to Zenbleed . Remembering those dodgy PC/Mac ads. Intro and outro music by Edith Mudge ( www.edithmudge.com )...
Jul 27, 2023•20 min•Season 3Ep. 145
Why your Mac's calendar app says it's JUL 17. One patch , one line, one file. Careful with that {axe,file} , Eugene. Storm season for Microsoft. When typos make you sing for joy. Twitter: @NakedSecurity Intro and outro music by Edith Mudge ( www.edithmudge.com )...
Jul 20, 2023•16 min•Season 3Ep. 144
Remembering the slide rule. What you need to know about Patch Tuesday. Supercookie surveillance shenanigans. When bugs arrive in pairs . Apple's rapid patch that needed a rapid patch . User-Agent considered harmful. Twitter: @NakedSecurity Intro and outro music by Edith Mudge ( www.edithmudge.com )...
Jul 13, 2023•18 min•Season 3Ep. 143
First there was DevOps, then SecOps, then DevSecOps. Or should that be SecDevOps? Paul Ducklin talks to Sophos X-Ops insider Matt Holdcroft about how to get all your corporate "Ops" teams working together, with cybersecurity correctness as a guiding light. Twitter: @NakedSecurity Intro and outro music by Edith Mudge ( www.edithmudge.com )
Jul 06, 2023•14 min•Season 3Ep. 142
PONG for one player. Apple pushes out anti-spyware patch . Beware bad passwords on Linux servers . "Twitter hacker" gets 5 years . When mobile phones and dental hygiene collide . Twitter: @NakedSecurity Intro and outro music by Edith Mudge ( www.edithmudge.com )...
Jun 29, 2023•18 min•Season 3Ep. 141
Gee Whizz BASIC (probably). Think you know ransomware ? Megaupload, 11 years on . ASUS warns of critical router bugs . MOVEit mayhem Part III . Twitter: @NakedSecurity Intro and outro music by Edith Mudge ( www.edithmudge.com )...
Jun 22, 2023•19 min•Season 3Ep. 140
Magnetic core memory. Patch Tuesday and SketchUp shenanigans. More MOVEit mitigations . Mt. Gox back in the news. Gozi malware criminal imprisoned at last. Are password rules like running through rain ? Twitter @NakedSecurity Intro and outro music by Edith Mudge ( www.edithmudge.com )...
Jun 15, 2023•17 min
Calling all modems. KeePass gets an update. MOVEit gets pwned . Chromium zero-day . The backdoor that wasn't really. WPBT explained. Twitter @NakedSecurity Intro and outro music by Edith Mudge ( www.edithmudge.com )...
Jun 08, 2023•22 min•Season 3Ep. 138
How to say "GIF". A Blackmailer-in-the-Middle attack. Knitting your own crypto . KeePass master password shenanigans. Binge listening. Email tips@sophos.com Twitter @NakedSecurity Intro and outro music by Edith Mudge ( www.edithmudge.com )...
Jun 01, 2023•21 min•Season 3Ep. 137
Luminiferous aether. A $10m cybercrime reward. Bank scam kingpin gets 13 years . Three Apple 0-days . A Python malware maelstrom . Email tips@sophos.com Twitter @NakedSecurity...
May 25, 2023•20 min•Season 3Ep. 136
An Apple product that flopped (and was not the Newton). Two-faced sysadmin jailed for 6 years . The smart plug with the unsmart security hole . Clearview AI again , once more, again . Intro and outro music by Edith Mudge ( https://www.edithmudge.com ). Hit us up on Twitter: @NakedSecurity...
May 18, 2023•17 min•Season 3Ep. 135
The world-changing Visible Calculator. How not to get a job. Private keys - the hint is in the name. Microsoft's complicated bootkit patch. Taming Bluetooth trackers . Email: tips@sophos.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/nakedsecurity Original music by Edith Mudge ( www.edithmudge.com )...
May 11, 2023•18 min•Season 3Ep. 134
New England gets BASIC. Google hits back at CryptBot crooks. Apple seals its lips on security. Mac malware-as-a-service . World Password Day. PaperCut: disclose or don't disclose ? Original music by Edith Mudge ( https://www.edithmudge.com )....
May 04, 2023•18 min•Season 3Ep. 133
The CIH or SpaceFiller virus revisited. Google's 2FA security shortcut . Server vulns under active attack . Two Chrome zero-days , but was it one attack? Email: tips@sophos.com Twitter: @NakedSecurity...
Apr 27, 2023•17 min•Season 3Ep. 132
Fun with FORTRAN?! An extreme data breach and its consequences. Rogue 2FA apps live in action. Juicejacking revisited. With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin. Original music by Edith Mudge ....
Apr 20, 2023•21 min•Season 3Ep. 131
A common business-oriented language. Patch Tuesday . Secure Boot (without the "Secure" part). Apple zero-days . World-readable garage doors . Motherboard malware threats . Original music by Edith Mudge ( https://www.edithmudge.com ) Email tips@sophos.com Twitter @NakedSecurity...
Apr 13, 2023•18 min•Season 3Ep. 130
A supply chain attack that foisted spyware on trusting users. Wi-Fi encryption bypass via left-over data. Surely there should be TWO World Backup Days ? Email tips@sophos.com Original music by Edith Mudge ( https://www.edithmudge.com ) Twitter @NakedSecurity...
Apr 06, 2023•18 min•Season 3Ep. 129
RIP Gordon Moore , the more in Moore's Law. Photo cropping bugfix . DDoS honeypot . E-commerce patches . Apple 0-day and lots more. Email tips@sophos.com Twitter @NakedSecurity...
Mar 30, 2023•20 min•Season 3Ep. 128
The mobile phone bugs that Google kept quiet, just in case. The mysterious case of ATM video uploads. When redacted data springs back to life . Email tips@sophos.com Twitter @NakedSecurity...
Mar 23, 2023•18 min•Season 3Ep. 127
The price of fast fashion . Firefox fixes . Feature creep fail curtailed in Patch Tuesday updates. Original music by Edith Mudge Got questions/suggestions/stories to share? Email tips@sophos.com Twitter @NakedSecurity...
Mar 16, 2023•20 min•Season 3Ep. 126
Memories of Michelangelo (the virus, not the artist). Data leakage bugs in TPM 2.0 . Ransomware bust , ransomware warning , and anti-ransomware advice. Original music by Edith Mudge Got questions/suggestions/stories to share? Email tips@sophos.com Twitter @NakedSecurity...
Mar 09, 2023•21 min•Season 3Ep. 125
How Woz nearly gave away the Apple I. Rogue software packages. Rogue network "administrators". Rogue keyloggers. Rogue authenticators. Original music by Edith Mudge Got questions/suggestions/stories to share? Email tips@sophos.com Twitter @NakedSecurity...
Mar 02, 2023•18 min•Season 3Ep. 124
The first search warrant for computer storage. GoDaddy breach. Twitter surprise . Coinbase kerfuffle . The cost of success. Original music by Edith Mudge Got questions/suggestions/stories to share? Email tips@sophos.com Twitter @NakedSecurity...
Feb 23, 2023•18 min•Season 3Ep. 123
The birth of ENIAC. A "sophisticated attack" (someone got phished ). A cryptographic hack enabled by a security warning. Valentine's Day Patch Tuesday . Apple closes spyware-sized 0-day hole. Original music by Edith Mudge Got questions/suggestions/stories to share? Email tips@sophos.com Twitter @NakedSecurity...
Feb 16, 2023•18 min•Season 3Ep. 122
Cryptocurrency crimelords . Security patches for VMware , OpenSSH and OpenSSL . Medical breacher busted . Is that a bug or a feature? Original music by Edith Mudge Got questions/suggestions/stories to share? Email tips@sophos.com Twitter @NakedSecurity...
Feb 09, 2023•21 min•Season 3Ep. 121
Do we really need a "war against cryptography" - codes and ciphers that the government can easily crack if it thinks there's an emergency - to cement our collective online security? Hear renowned cybersecurity author Andy Greenberg's thoughtful commentary on this and many other vital issues, including anonymity and privacy, as we talk to him about his tremendous new book , Tracers in the Dark. Original music by Edith Mudge ....
Feb 06, 2023•25 min•Season 3Ep. 120