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S3 Ep144: When threat hunting goes down a rabbit hole

By Paul Ducklin β€” July 20th 2023 at 14:58
Latest episode - check it out now!

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Microsoft hit by Storm season – a tale of two semi-zero days

By Paul Ducklin β€” July 18th 2023 at 20:59
The first compromise didn't get the crooks as far as they wanted, so they found a second one that did...

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Google leaking 2FA secrets – researchers advise against new β€œaccount sync” feature for now

By Paul Ducklin β€” April 26th 2023 at 17:59
You waited 13 years for this feature in Google Authenticator. Now researchers are advising you to wait a while longer, just in case...

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Ex-CEO of breached pyschotherapy clinic gets prison sentence for bad data security

By Paul Ducklin β€” April 18th 2023 at 16:56
Did the sentence fit the crime? Read the backstory, and then have your say in our comments! (You may post anonymously.)

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Attention gamers! Motherboard maker MSI admits to breach, issues β€œrogue firmware” alert

By Paul Ducklin β€” April 11th 2023 at 18:58
Stealing private keys is like getting hold of a medieval monarch's personal signet ring... you get to put an official seal on treasonous material.

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

By Paul Ducklin β€” March 2nd 2023 at 19:40
Rogue software packages. Rogue "sysadmins". Rogue keyloggers. Rogue authenticators. Rogue ROGUES!

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Beware rogue 2FA apps in App Store and Google Play – don’t get hacked!

By Paul Ducklin β€” February 27th 2023 at 02:10
Even in Apple's and Google's "walled gardens", there are plenty of 2FA apps that are either dangerously incompetent, or unrepentantly malicious. (Or perhaps both.)

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

By Paul Ducklin β€” February 20th 2023 at 17:58
Ironically, Twitter Blue users will be allowed to keep using the very 2FA process that's not considered secure enough for everyone else.

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Finnish psychotherapy extortion suspect arrested in France

By Naked Security writer β€” February 6th 2023 at 19:13
Company transcribed ultra-personal conversations, didn't secure them. Criminal stole them, then extorted thousands of vulnerable patients.

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

By Paul Ducklin β€” 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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PyTorch: Machine Learning toolkit pwned from Christmas to New Year

By Paul Ducklin β€” 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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Twitter data of β€œ+400 million unique users” up for sale – what to do?

By Paul Ducklin β€” 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 Ep111: The business risk of a sleazy β€œnudity unfilter” [Audio + Text]

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

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Multimillion dollar CryptoRom scam sites seized, suspects arrested in US

By Paul Ducklin β€” November 23rd 2022 at 19:58
Five tips to keep yourself, and your friends and family, out of the clutches of "chopping block" scammers...

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

By Naked Security writer β€” 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 β€” November 3rd 2022 at 17:51
Listen now - latest episode - audio plus full transcript

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Psychotherapy extortion suspect: arrest warrant issued

By Paul Ducklin β€” October 31st 2022 at 19:59
Wanted! Not only the extortionist who abused the data, but also the CEO who let it happen.

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Paying ransomware crooks won’t reduce your legal risk, warns regulator

By Paul Ducklin β€” July 12th 2022 at 18:24
"We paid the crooks to keep things under control and make a bad thing better"... isn't a valid excuse. Who knew?

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S3 Ep89: Sextortion, blockchain blunder, and an OpenSSL bugfix [Podcast + Transcript]

By Paul Ducklin β€” June 30th 2022 at 12:57
Latest episode - listen and read now! Use our advice to advise your own friends and family... let's all do our bit to stand up to scammers!

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FTC warns of LGBTQ+ extortion scams – be aware before you share!

By Paul Ducklin β€” June 27th 2022 at 14:58
It's a simple jingle and it's solid advice: "If in doubt, don't give it out!"

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Who’s watching your webcam? The Screencastify Chrome extension story…

By Paul Ducklin β€” May 26th 2022 at 12:41
When you really need to make exceptions in cybersecurity, specify them as explicitly as you can.

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LAPSUS$ hacks continue despite two hacker suspects in court

By Paul Ducklin β€” April 4th 2022 at 21:36
Do you know where in your company to report security anomalies? If you receive such reports, do you have an efficient way to process them?

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Beware bogus Betas – cryptocoin scammers abuse Apple’s TestFlight system

By Paul Ducklin β€” March 16th 2022 at 15:49
"Install this moneymaking app" - this one is so special that it isn't available on Google Play or the App Store!

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Ransomware with a difference: β€œDerestrict your software, or else!”

By Paul Ducklin β€” March 2nd 2022 at 16:33
"Change your code to improve cryptomining"... or we'll dump 1TB of stolen secrets.

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S3 Ep71: VMware escapes, PHP holes, WP plugin woes, and scary scams [Podcast + Transcript]

By Paul Ducklin β€” February 24th 2022 at 16:51
Latest episode - listen now!

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French speakers blasted by sextortion scams with no text or links

By Paul Ducklin β€” February 21st 2022 at 17:59
You'd spot this one a mile away... but what about your friends or family?

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