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Naked Security

We take an expert look at the latest cybersecurity incidents, how they happened, and why. Tune in weekly to learn what you can do to stop bad things from happening to you! Got questions/suggestions/stories to share? Email: tips@sophos.com Twitter: @NakedSecurity Instagram: @NakedSecurity
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Episodes

Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 79 - January 9, 2012

Paul Ducklin joins Chet for the first Chet Chat of 2012. This week they discuss the privacy implications of smart meters, the recent research showing how WiFi routers are vulnerable due to an easy setup feature and password hashes.

Oct 26, 201317 min

Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 76 - October 21, 2011

Chester interviews Michael Kaiser from the National Cyber Security Alliance and Rob Strayer from the Bipartisan Policy Center about National Cyber Security Awareness Month and our upcoming State of Cyber Security event.

Oct 26, 201312 min

Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 75 - October 14, 2011

John Shier joined Chet this week as they discussed the death of UNIX and C co-creator Dennis Ritchie, the Virus Bulletin 2011 conference, Apple's release of iOS 5 and OS X 10.7.2, Microsoft Patch Tuesday, and the German R2D2 Trojan.

Oct 26, 201318 min

Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 74 - September 30, 2011

This week Paul Ducklin joins Chester Wisniewski to discuss cooperating to fight hi-tech crime, the Kelihos botnet shutdown, the US government proposal to have ISPs notify infected customers and the impact of BEAST on SSL connections.

Oct 26, 201316 min

Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 73 - September 18, 2011

Paul Ducklin joined Chet this week from a real life denial of service situation at the Sydney, Australia airport. Topics discussed include Patch Tuesday, UBS losing $3bn, SpyEye on Android, Twit.tv hacked and Windows 8 including anti-virus.

Oct 26, 201315 min

Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 71 - August 21, 2011

Chester Wisniewski welcomes back Paul Ducklin to summarize the week's security news. This week they talk about ATM skimming and recent related research, Juicejacking, the latest Anonymous attacks and the digital bread crumbs we all leave behind on the internet.

Oct 26, 201313 min

Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 70 - August 11, 2011

Vanja Svajcer joins Chester Wisniewski to discuss the papers and demos they attended at last week's Black Hat and DEFCON conferences. Topics covered include Android patch cycles, Fixing the SSL CA problem, insulin pump hacking, Google ChromeOS flaws and archiving our digital past.

Oct 26, 201324 min

Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 69 - July 28, 2011

David Schwartzberg joined Chet for this week's Chet Chat. David is a specialist in data protection and shared his thoughts on the new File Vault 2 feature in Mac OS X Lion. Dave and Chet also discussed Google+ privacy, Facebook's compromise on facial recognition and the critical vulnerability in Apple's iOS.

Oct 26, 201321 min

Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 68 - July 22, 2011

In this week's Chet Chat Kris Braun SophosLabs Threat Operations Manager joins Chet to discuss the week's news. Topics include OS X Lion, Oracle patches, Zeus for Android and Secunia's mid-year threat report.

Oct 26, 201320 min

Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 67 - July 15, 2011

Richard Baldry is Chet's guest on this week's Chet Chat. Chet and Richard talk about Google blocking the .co.cc domain, Patch Tuesday, Apple's JailBreakMe.com patch and the "phone hacking" and malware related to the News of the World scandal.

Oct 26, 201318 min

Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 66 - July 7, 2011

In this week's Chet Chat Paul Ducklin is Chet's guest as they cover the latest security news. Topics covered include a paper on the Popureb rootkit, the vulnerabilities in Apple's iOS exploited by jailbreakme.com, WordPress 3.2 and the latest Twitter account hacks.

Oct 26, 201312 min

Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 65 - June 23, 2011

Paul Ducklin joins Chester this week for Chet Chat episode 65. Chet and Paul discuss the impact of the recent FBI arrests of scareware purveyors, the arrest of Ryan Cleary and LulzSec's latest stunts, Trojanized WordPress plugins and the imaginary world of Bitcoin digital currency.

Oct 26, 201313 min

Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 64 - June 15, 2011

In SSCC episode 64 Chet's guest is the North American Threat Operations Manager for SophosLabs. They discuss the LulzSec DDoS last week, the attack against the IMF, Nissan's Leaf leaking location data and the latest Adobe fixes. Kris also provided advise from SophosLabs on defending against targeted attacks.

Oct 26, 201328 min

Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 63 - June 9, 2011

In this week's Chet Chat Rich Baldry joins Chet to discuss the future of Mac OS X security. They also discuss the week's news including RSA, Sony, software patches and Facebook's introduction of facial recognition software

Oct 26, 201323 min

Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 61 - May 27, 2011

Chester Wisniewski sits down with one of the most experienced Sophos technical support experts to discuss best practices and how we can use the tools we have to do a better job defending against modern malware.

Oct 26, 201321 min

Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 58 - April 30, 2011

Sophos Security Chet Chat 58 features Paul Ducklin and Chester Wisniewski discussing the week's most pertinent security topics. This week: the Coreflood take-down; password loss at DSLReports; Sony's big data breach; Iran claims a "Stars" virus attack; and Facebook shuts down Ars Technica.

Oct 26, 201319 min

Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 55 - April 6, 2011

Tony Ross joins Chester Wisniewski this week to discuss the latest news on SSL Certificate Authorities ignoring signing guidelines. They also talk about the RSA breach, email best practices, Chrome adding malicious download filtering and more.

Oct 26, 201313 min

Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 54 - March 31, 2011

Michael Argast joins Chet for a HUGE Chet Chat this week. They primarily cover Facebook's new SSL/anti-likejacking, Comodo SSL hack, Firefox 4 and the SQL injection attacks against MySQL and Sun/Oracle. Extra: Don't miss the blooper of Chet mistakenly calling this Chet Chat 55... That's next week.

Oct 26, 201321 min

Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 53 - March 21, 2011

Chester Wisniewski and guest Michael Argast discuss this week's security news. They give advice to users of RSA's SecureID tokens post-breach, talk about RIM's advice to disable JavaScript on BlackBerry devices and Google patching Adobe Flash in Chrome before even Adobe has patched it.

Oct 26, 201310 min

Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 52 - March 15, 2011

Chester Wisniewski and Michael Argast talk about the latest security news related to Twitter's use of HTTPS, Congress killing net neutrality, car hacking, tsunami scams,the Adobe Reader zero day and more.

Oct 26, 201319 min

Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 51 - March 7, 2011

Michael Argast talks with Chet about Apple's new test release of OS X, codenamed Lion. They also chat about Microsoft begging people to stop using IE6, providing social media access to your employer, the rise in Facebook scams and the recent spat of malware on the Android Market.

Oct 26, 201311 min
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