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

By Paul Ducklin — February 1st 2023 at 19:58
Is it a vulnerability if someone with control over your account can mess with files that your account is allowed to access anyway?

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GitHub code-signing certificates stolen (but will be revoked this week)

By Paul Ducklin — January 31st 2023 at 11:35
There was a breach, so the bad news isn't great, but the good news isn't too bad...

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Serious Security: The Samba logon bug caused by outdated crypto

By Paul Ducklin — January 30th 2023 at 19:59
Enjoy our Serious Security deep dive into this real-world example of why cryptographic agility is important!

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S3 Ep119: Breaches, patches, leaks and tweaks! [Audio + Text]

By Paul Ducklin — January 26th 2023 at 19:57
Lastest episode - listen now! (Or read the transcript.)

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

By Paul Ducklin — January 24th 2023 at 01:24
Don't delay, especially if you're still running an iOS 12 device... please do it today!

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Serious Security: How dEliBeRaTe tYpOs might imProVe DNS security

By Paul Ducklin — January 23rd 2023 at 19:59
It's a really cool and super-simple trick. The question is, "Will it help?"

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

By Paul Ducklin — January 19th 2023 at 15:53
As always: entertaining, informative and educational... and not bogged down with jargon! Listen (or read) now...

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S3 Ep117: The crypto crisis that wasn’t (and farewell forever to Win 7) [Audio + Text]

By Paul Ducklin — January 12th 2023 at 17:59
Tell us in the comments... What's the REAL reason there was no Windows 9? (No theory too far-fetched!)

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

By Paul Ducklin — January 11th 2023 at 00:22
Get 'em while they're hot. And get 'em for the very last time, if you still have Windows 7 or 8.1...

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

By Paul Ducklin — January 10th 2023 at 19:59
It's remotely triggerable, but attackers would already have pretty deep network access if they could "prime" your server for compromise.

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CircleCI – code-building service suffers total credential compromise

By Paul Ducklin — January 9th 2023 at 14:52
They're saying "rotate secrets"... in plain English, they mean "change your credentials". The company has a tool to help you find them all.

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

By Paul Ducklin — January 5th 2023 at 17:52
Lots of big issues this week: breaches, encryption, supply chains and patching problems. Listen now! (Full transcript inside.)

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Serious Security: How to improve cryptography, resist supply chain attacks, and handle data breaches

By Paul Ducklin — January 4th 2023 at 19:50
Lessons for us all: improve cryptography, fight cybercrime, own your supply chain... and don't steal my data and then pretend you're sorry.

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PyTorch: Machine Learning toolkit pwned from Christmas to New Year

By Paul Ducklin — January 1st 2023 at 21:36
The bad news: the crooks have your SSH private keys. The good news: only users of the "nightly" build were affected.

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

By Paul Ducklin — December 30th 2022 at 19:59
The problem with anniversaries is that there's an almost infinite number of them every day...

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S3 Ep115: True crime stories – A day in the life of a cybercrime fighter [Audio + Text]

By Paul Ducklin — December 29th 2022 at 09:20
Listen now - you'll be alarmed, amused and educated, all in equal measure. (Full transcript in article.)

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

By Paul Ducklin — December 28th 2022 at 19:59
If the crooks have connected up your phone number and your Twitter handle... what could go wrong?

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

By Paul Ducklin — December 22nd 2022 at 19:56
Join world-renowned expert Fraser Howard, Director of Research at SophosLabs, for this fascinating episode on how to fight cybercrime.

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

By Paul Ducklin — December 20th 2022 at 17:59
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.

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S3 Ep113: Pwning the Windows kernel – the crooks who hoodwinked Microsoft [Audio + Text]

By Paul Ducklin — December 15th 2022 at 17:10
Return o' the rookit, super-sneaky wireless spyware, credit card skimming, and patches galore. Listen and learn!

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Apple patches everything, finally reveals mystery of iOS 16.1.2

By Paul Ducklin — December 14th 2022 at 02:11
There's an update for everything this time, not just for iOS.

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Patch Tuesday: 0-days, RCE bugs, and a curious tale of signed malware

By Paul Ducklin — December 14th 2022 at 01:13
Tales of derring-do in the cyberunderground! (And some zero-days.)

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

By Paul Ducklin — December 13th 2022 at 19:58
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 — December 12th 2022 at 19:58
That's a mean average of $15,710 per bug... and 63 fewer bugs out there for crooks and rogues to find.

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S3 Ep112: Data breaches can haunt you more than once! [Audio + Text]

By Paul Ducklin — December 9th 2022 at 16:46
Breaches, exploits, busts, buffer overflows and bug hunting - entertaining and educational in equal measure.

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

By Paul Ducklin — December 8th 2022 at 19:58
Don't keep calling home to a JavaScript server that closed its doors eight years ago!

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Number Nine! Chrome fixes another 2022 zero-day, Edge patched too

By Paul Ducklin — December 5th 2022 at 20:58
Ninth more unto the breach, dear friends, ninth more.

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Ping of death! FreeBSD fixes crashtastic bug in network tool

By Paul Ducklin — December 5th 2022 at 19:59
It's a venerable program, and this version had a venerable bug in it.

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

By Paul Ducklin — December 2nd 2022 at 21:02
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...

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S3 Ep111: The business risk of a sleazy “nudity unfilter” [Audio + Text]

By Paul Ducklin — December 1st 2022 at 19:58
Latest episode - listen now (or read if you prefer)...

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

By Paul Ducklin — November 29th 2022 at 19:58
An injury to one is an injury to all. Especially if the other people are part of your social network.

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

By Paul Ducklin — November 28th 2022 at 19:42
There isn't a rhyme to remind you which months have browser zero-days... you just have to keep your eyes and ears open!

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

By Naked Security writer — November 25th 2022 at 19:17
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

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

By Paul Ducklin — November 24th 2022 at 16:52
Latest episode - security expert John Shier explains what the real-life cybercrime stories in the Sophos Threat Report can teach us

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How to hack an unpatched Exchange server with rogue PowerShell code

By Paul Ducklin — November 22nd 2022 at 19:54
Review your servers, your patches and your authentication policies - there's a proof-of-concept out

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S3 Ep109: How one leaked email password could drain your business [Audio + Transcript]

By Paul Ducklin — November 17th 2022 at 17:52
Latest episode - listen now! Cybersecurity news plus loads of great advice...

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Firefox fixes fullscreen fakery flaw – get the update now!

By Paul Ducklin — November 16th 2022 at 19:51
What's so bad about a web page going fullscreen without warning you first?

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Log4Shell-like code execution hole in popular Backstage dev tool

By Paul Ducklin — November 15th 2022 at 17:49
Good old "string templating", also known as "string interpolation", in the spotlight again...

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S3 Ep108: You hid THREE BILLION dollars in a popcorn tin?

By Paul Ducklin — November 10th 2022 at 17:26
Patches, busts, leaks and why even low-likelihood exploits can be high-severity risks - listen now!

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Emergency code execution patch from Apple – but not an 0-day

By Paul Ducklin — November 10th 2022 at 01:49
Not a zero-day, but important enough for a quick-fire patch to one system library...

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Exchange 0-days fixed (at last) – plus 4 brand new Patch Tuesday 0-days!

By Paul Ducklin — November 9th 2022 at 19:58
In all the excitement, we kind of lost track ourselves. Were there six 0-days, or only four?

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Silk Road drugs market hacker pleads guilty, faces 20 years inside

By Paul Ducklin — November 8th 2022 at 19:58
Jurisprudence isn't like arithmetic... two negatives never make a positive!

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Twitter Blue Badge email scams – Don’t fall for them!

By Naked Security writer — November 4th 2022 at 17:59
That was the week that was...

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S3 Ep107: Eight months to kick out the crooks and you think that’s GOOD? [Audio + Text]

By Paul Ducklin — November 3rd 2022 at 17:51
Listen now - latest episode - audio plus full transcript

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The OpenSSL security update story – how can you tell what needs fixing?

By Paul Ducklin — November 3rd 2022 at 00:44
How to Hack! Finding OpenSSL library files and accurately identifying their version numbers...

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OpenSSL patches are out – CRITICAL bug downgraded to HIGH, but patch anyway!

By Paul Ducklin — November 1st 2022 at 17:24
That bated-breath OpenSSL update is out! It's no longer rated CRITICAL, but we advise you to patch ASAP anyway. Here's why...

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SHA-3 code execution bug patched in PHP – check your version!

By Paul Ducklin — November 1st 2022 at 14:09
As everyone waits for news of a bug in OpenSSL, here's a reminder that other cryptographic code in your life may also need patching!

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Chrome issues urgent zero-day fix – update now!

By Paul Ducklin — October 29th 2022 at 15:08
We've said it before/And we'll say it again/It's not *if* you should patch/It's a matter of *when*. (Hint: now!)

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Updates to Apple’s zero-day update story – iPhone and iPad users read this!

By Paul Ducklin — October 28th 2022 at 18:04
Turns out that Tuesday's zero-day for iOS 16 is Friday's zero-day for iOS 15...

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S3 Ep106: Facial recognition without consent – should it be banned?

By Paul Ducklin — October 27th 2022 at 16:59
Latest episode - listen (or read) now. Teachable moments for X-Ops professionals!

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Clearview AI image-scraping face recognition service hit with €20m fine in France

By Paul Ducklin — October 26th 2022 at 00:50
"We told you to stop but you ignored us," said the French regulator, "so now we're coming after you again."

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Apple megaupdate: Ventura out, iOS and iPad kernel zero-day – act now!

By Paul Ducklin — October 25th 2022 at 18:03
Ventura hits the market with 112 patches, Catalina's gone missing, and iPhones and iPads get a critical kernel-level zero-day patch...

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S3 Ep105: WONTFIX! The MS Office cryptofail that “isn’t a security flaw” [Audio + Text]

By Paul Ducklin — October 20th 2022 at 18:54
The coolest video game ever! And lots of solid cybersecurity advice - listen now!

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Zoom for Mac patches sneaky “spy-on-me” bug – update now!

By Paul Ducklin — October 18th 2022 at 18:01
Hey! That back door isn't supposed to be there at all, let alone propped open...

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Dangerous hole in Apache Commons Text – like Log4Shell all over again

By Paul Ducklin — October 18th 2022 at 17:26
Third time unlucky. Time to put your patching boots on again...

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S3 Ep104: Should hospital ransomware attackers be locked up for life? [Audio + Text]

By Paul Ducklin — October 13th 2022 at 16:37
Have your say on three deep questions posed by this week's podcast. Read or listen as suits you best...

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Patch Tuesday in brief – one 0-day fixed, but no patches for Exchange!

By Paul Ducklin — October 12th 2022 at 16:58
There's a zero-day patch, but it's not for the zero-day you thought.

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Mystery iPhone update patches against iOS 16 mail crash-attack

By Paul Ducklin — October 11th 2022 at 00:28
The problem with crashy messaging apps is that *other people* get to choose if and when to send you messages...

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S3 Ep103: Scammers in the Slammer (and other stories) [Audio + Text]

By Paul Ducklin — October 6th 2022 at 14:43
Latest episode - listen and learn now (or read and revise, if the written word is your thing)...

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S3 Ep102.5: “ProxyNotShell” Exchange bugs – an expert speaks [Audio + Text]

By Paul Ducklin — October 1st 2022 at 14:05
Who's affected, what you can do while waiting for Microsoft's patches, and how to plan your threat hunting...

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