This week's podcast finds Chet and John both enjoying some well deserved time in their respective homes. Topics include an overview of InfoSec Europe and BSides London, the dangers of not providing password management tools, how small mistakes lead to bigger vulnerabilities, the state of cryptojacking and the latest FBI cybercrime bust.
Chester and Ben talk about the week's security news including the latest Flash and Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerabilities, insecure toys being yanked from major retailers, Naked Security's award winning performance at InfoSec Europe 2018, the debate of a public postmortem at the City of Atlanta and the conviction of Yahoo! hacker Karim Baratov.
The FBI just issued a VPNFilter malware warning saying, "Reboot your routers now!" But why? And will it help? Kimberly Truong and Paul Ducklin of Sophos investigate.
Charlotte Williams from Naked Security talks to Sophos experts Matt Boddy and Paul Ducklin about the EFAIL in email, a gift-horse bug in Red Hat Linux, and what happens when sniffer dogs join your cybersecurity team. (Music: purple-planet.com and codices.bandcamp.com)
This week's podcast finds Chet hosting from Hong Kong with guest Ben Verschaeren. Topics covered include the eFail disclosure, Adobe Reader vulns, Chili's credit card theft, LocationSmart leaking cell locations and Android requirements to stay up to date.
Chester Wisniewski is joined by Greg Iddon from London in this week's Chet Chat. They discuss the latest Drupal attacks, patch urgency, the IC3 report on cybercrime and the cost of cryptomining.
Charlotte Williams from the award-winning computer security website Naked Security talks to Sophos experts Matt Boddy and Paul Ducklin about old-school malware, how to judge Patch Tuesday, and what to do about Facebook. (Music: purple-planet.com and codices.bandcamp.com)
Paul Ducklin from the award-winning computer security website Naked Security talks to Sophos experts Matt Boddy and Fraser Howard about password cracking and HTTPS. (Music: purple-planet.com and thespacelords1.bandcamp.com)
Paul Ducklin from the award-winning computer security website Naked Security talks to SophosLabs researcher Fraser Howard about a growing trend in cybercrime: cryptojacking, where the crooks mine cryptocurrency and keep the loot, but you pay for the electricity. (Music: purple-planet.com)
John Shier interviews Claudio Stahnke from Canalys Channel Forums about the view of security from the channel partner's perspective. John and Claudio touch on GDPR, security as a service, IoT and more.
This week's Chet Chat comes to you live from BSides Perth in West Australia. Chester and John share their thoughts on Coinbase forking over data to the IRS, Apple's non-fixy-fix for OS X, FBI not notifying victims of Fancy Bear and Firefox warning about password thefts.
This week's Chet Chat is live from the Tom's Guide offices in New York City after the O'reilly Security event. Chester has a chat with journalist Paul Wagenseil about the O'reilly event, another lost thumbdrive with sensitive unencrypted data, KRACK patch availability, malicious Chrome extensions and the seemingly lax governance at some social media companies.
This week's Chet Chat was recorded live from BSides Calgary with Michael Argast from Sky Northern. Chester and Michael shared their opinions on the KRACK vulnerabilities, Infineon RSA crypto bug, Mastercard ditching receipt signing, IRS saying your ID is compromised and Australia's new data breach notification legislation.
This week's Chet Chat comes to you from Madrid, Spain thanks to it being the host city for Virus Bulletin 2017. Chester interviews the Editor for VB, Martijn Grooten, about the conference while mispronouncing his name at least 3 ways. John Shier joins Chet to discuss their favourite talks and takeaways from this years event.
John Shier hosts the Chet Chat this week with special guest Ben Verschaeren from Sophos Australia. John and Ben share their insights on this year's BSides Las Vegas, Black Hat and DEF CON conferences. Topics covered include IoThacking, information sharing, machine learning, responsible disclosure and more.
Is ransomware really the worst sort of cyberattack you can experience? Or is it more of a “worst among equals,” given all the other sorts of malware out there too? Sophos security expert James Burchell explains what to do when faced with a multitude of cyberthreats. https://sophos.com/securitysos
Botnet malware quietly downloads instructions from cybercriminals on what to do next, such as grabbing passwords, stealing files, sending spam, and delivering malware. Learn from Fraser Howard, one of the world’s leading anti-malware researchers, how to dezombify your world. https://sophos.com/securitysos
Here's the third episode of our June 2017 "Sophos Security SOS" series - a week of topical podcasts, originally recorded and broadcast live. Sophos cybersecurity specialist Luke Groves talks to Paul Ducklin about how to take charge of security inside your organisation without creating an uncomfortable culture of snooping and surveillance. https://sophos.com/securitysos
Here's the second episode of our June 2017 "Sophos Security SOS" series - a week of topical podcasts, originally recorded and broadcast live. In this episode, Paul Ducklin interviews Sophos malware specialist Peter Mackenzie about the evolution of phishing. Join us to learn how to keep your own users safe. https://sophos.com/securitysos
This is the first in our June 2017 "Sophos Security SOS" series - a week of topical podcasts, originally recorded and broadcast live. In this episode, Paul Ducklin interviews Sophos expert John Shaw about the new European data protection laws (GDPR), how they affect organizations in Europe, North America and beyond, and how to turn them into an opportunity rather than merely shouldering them as a burden. https://sophos.com/securitysos
In this week's Chet Chat, Sophos researchers Chester Wisniewski and John Shier share their opinions on the leaked NSA election hacking docs, Judy Android ad fraud, the OneLogin breach, Crisis authors throwing in the towel and Google's latest privacy SNAFU in Chrome.
The Chet Chat is back! Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for their keen commentary on the latest security news. In this episode: WannaCry revisited, a wormable hole in Samba, security changes in the Android world, and a bunch of cybercrime busts.
Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for the latest episode of our regular security podcast. The duo turn the latest news into purposeful advice as they discuss swastikas on Twitter, the recent Apache Struts zero-day exploit, the CIA's funkily-named "Fine Dining" project, and why four of Google's biggest competitors have decided to stand up for Mountain View in court.
Live from BSides Vancouver 2017 Chester Wisniewski of Sophos interviews Derek Hanson from Yubico about U2F, FIDO and the future of mutlifactor authentication.
Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for the latest edition of our regular security podcast. In this episode: trouble at the SHA-1 mill; the (not so) imaginary world of Mac ransomware; wiretapping your children with furry toys; and Google goes one step forward/one step back in Chrome's new TLS security dialog.
Chester Wisniewski and John Shier share their thoughts from the floor of this year's RSA Conference in San Francisco.
Join Paul Ducklin and Bill Brenner for our third and final roving report from RSA Conference 2017.
Bill Brenner of Sophos is at the RSA Conference 2017 in San Franscisco. He talks to Paul Ducklin about the lessons learned so far...
Bill Brenner from Sophos is our "roving reporter" at the RSA 2017 conference in San Francisco. Paul Ducklin gets Bill's take on the hot topics from the first day of the event.
In this week's Chet Chat, Paul and Chester discuss the vulnerabilities reported in Cisco's WebEx plugin, the ease of breaking into Android phones which use the lock pattern, a recent security audit of the Dovecot project, animals attacking infrastructure and Data Privacy Day.
