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In Memoriam – Gordon Moore, who put the more in “Moore’s Law”

By Paul Ducklin
His prediction was called a "Law", though it was an exhortation to engineering excellence as much it was an estimate.

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WooCommerce Payments plugin for WordPress has an admin-level hole – patch now!

By Paul Ducklin
Admin-level holes in websites are always a bad thing... and for "bad", read "worse" if it's an e-commerce site.

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Dangerous Android phone 0-day bugs revealed – patch or work around them now!

By Paul Ducklin
Despite its usually inflexible 0-day disclosure policy, Google is keeping four mobile modem bugs semi-secret due to likely ease of exploitation.

S3 Ep 126: The price of fast fashion (and feature creep) [Audio + Text]

By Paul Ducklin
Worried about rogue apps? Unsure about the new Outlook zero-day? Clear advice in plain English... just like old times, with Duck and Chet!

Microsoft fixes two 0-days on Patch Tuesday – update now!

By Paul Ducklin
An email you haven't even looked at yet could be used to trick Outlook into helping crooks to logon as you.

Firefox 111 patches 11 holes, but not 1 zero-day among them…

By Paul Ducklin
In the game of cricket, 111 is an inauspicious number, but for Firefox, there doesn't seem to be much to worry about this month.

Serious Security: TPM 2.0 vulns – is your super-secure data at risk?

By Paul Ducklin
Security bugs in the very code you've been told you must have to improve the security of your computer...

Feds warn about right Royal ransomware rampage that runs the gamut of TTPs

By Paul Ducklin
Wondering which cybercrime tools, techniques and procedures to focus on? How about any and all of them?

S3 Ep124: When so-called security apps go rogue [Audio + Text]

By Paul Ducklin
Rogue software packages. Rogue "sysadmins". Rogue keyloggers. Rogue authenticators. Rogue ROGUES!

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NPM JavaScript packages abused to create scambait links in bulk

By Paul Ducklin
Free spins? Bonus game points? Cheap social media followers? What harm could it possibly do if you just take a tiny little look?!

Twitter tells users: Pay up if you want to keep using insecure 2FA

By Paul Ducklin
Ironically, Twitter Blue users will be allowed to keep using the very 2FA process that's not considered secure enough for everyone else.

Apple fixes zero-day spyware implant bug – patch now!

By Paul Ducklin
Everyone update now! Except for those who don't need to! Or who need to but will only get updates later on, though Apple isn't saying yet!

Reddit admits it was hacked and data stolen, says “Don’t panic”

By Paul Ducklin
Reddit is suggesting three tips as a follow-up to this breach. We agree with two of them but not with the third...

OpenSSL fixes High Severity data-stealing bug – patch now!

By Paul Ducklin
7 memory mismanagements and a timing attack. We explain all the jargon bug terminology in plain English...

VMWare user? Worried about “ESXi ransomware”? Check your patches now!

By Paul Ducklin
To borrow from HHGttG, please DON'T PANIC. But if you are two years out of date with patches, please do ACT NOW!

OpenSSH fixes double-free memory bug that’s pokable over the network

By Paul Ducklin
It's a bug fix for a bug fix. A memory leak was turned into a double-free that has now been turned into correct code...

Password-stealing “vulnerability” reported in KeePass – bug or feature?

By Paul Ducklin
Is it a vulnerability if someone with control over your account can mess with files that your account is allowed to access anyway?

Serious Security: The Samba logon bug caused by outdated crypto

By Paul Ducklin
Enjoy our Serious Security deep dive into this real-world example of why cryptographic agility is important!

Apple patches are out – old iPhones get an old zero-day fix at last!

By Paul Ducklin
Don't delay, especially if you're still running an iOS 12 device... please do it today!

Serious Security: How dEliBeRaTe tYpOs might imProVe DNS security

By Paul Ducklin
It's a really cool and super-simple trick. The question is, "Will it help?"

S3 Ep118: Guess your password? No need if it’s stolen already! [Audio + Text]

By Paul Ducklin
As always: entertaining, informative and educational... and not bogged down with jargon! Listen (or read) now...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday: One 0-day; Win 7 and 8.1 get last-ever patches

By Paul Ducklin
Get 'em while they're hot. And get 'em for the very last time, if you still have Windows 7 or 8.1...

Popular JWT cloud security library patches “remote” code execution hole

By Paul Ducklin
It's remotely triggerable, but attackers would already have pretty deep network access if they could "prime" your server for compromise.

CircleCI – code-building service suffers total credential compromise

By Paul Ducklin
They're saying "rotate secrets"... in plain English, they mean "change your credentials". The company has a tool to help you find them all.

S3 Ep116: Last straw for LastPass? Is crypto doomed? [Audio + Text]

By Paul Ducklin
Lots of big issues this week: breaches, encryption, supply chains and patching problems. Listen now! (Full transcript inside.)

PyTorch: Machine Learning toolkit pwned from Christmas to New Year

By Paul Ducklin
The bad news: the crooks have your SSH private keys. The good news: only users of the "nightly" build were affected.

Naked Security 33 1/3 – Cybersecurity predictions for 2023 and beyond

By Paul Ducklin
The problem with anniversaries is that there's an almost infinite number of them every day...

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Twitter data of “+400 million unique users” up for sale – what to do?

By Paul Ducklin
If the crooks have connected up your phone number and your Twitter handle... what could go wrong?

S3 Ep114: Preventing cyberthreats – stop them before they stop you! [Audio + Text]

By Paul Ducklin
Join world-renowned expert Fraser Howard, Director of Research at SophosLabs, for this fascinating episode on how to fight cybercrime.

Microsoft dishes the dirt on Apple’s “Achilles heel” shortly after fixing similar Windows bug

By Paul Ducklin
It happens to the best of us: Microsoft highlights a security bypass bug on Macs that is curiously similar to a recent Windows 0-day.

Apple patches everything, finally reveals mystery of iOS 16.1.2

By Paul Ducklin
There's an update for everything this time, not just for iOS.

COVID-bit: the wireless spyware trick with an unfortunate name

By Paul Ducklin
It's not the switching that's the problem, it's the switching of the switching!

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Pwn2Own Toronto: 54 hacks, 63 new bugs, $1 million in bounties

By Paul Ducklin
That's a mean average of $15,710 per bug... and 63 fewer bugs out there for crooks and rogues to find.

Credit card skimming – the long and winding road of supply chain failure

By Paul Ducklin
Don't keep calling home to a JavaScript server that closed its doors eight years ago!

Ping of death! FreeBSD fixes crashtastic bug in network tool

By Paul Ducklin
It's a venerable program, and this version had a venerable bug in it.

Apple pushes out iOS security update that’s more tight-lipped than ever

By Paul Ducklin
We grabbed the update, based on no information at all, just in case we came across a reason to advise you not to. So far, so good...

TikTok “Invisible Challenge” porn malware puts us all at risk

By Paul Ducklin
An injury to one is an injury to all. Especially if the other people are part of your social network.

Chrome fixes 8th zero-day of 2022 – check your version now (Edge too!)

By Paul Ducklin
There isn't a rhyme to remind you which months have browser zero-days... you just have to keep your eyes and ears open!

Voice-scamming site “iSpoof” seized, 100s arrested in massive crackdown

By Naked Security writer
Those numbers or names that pop up when a call comes up? They're OK as a hint of who's calling, but THEY PROVE NOTHING

S3 Ep110: Spotlight on cyberthreats – an expert speaks [Audio + Text]

By Paul Ducklin
Latest episode - security expert John Shier explains what the real-life cybercrime stories in the Sophos Threat Report can teach us

How to hack an unpatched Exchange server with rogue PowerShell code

By Paul Ducklin
Review your servers, your patches and your authentication policies - there's a proof-of-concept out

Firefox fixes fullscreen fakery flaw – get the update now!

By Paul Ducklin
What's so bad about a web page going fullscreen without warning you first?

Log4Shell-like code execution hole in popular Backstage dev tool

By Paul Ducklin
Good old "string templating", also known as "string interpolation", in the spotlight again...

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