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“Snakes in airplane mode” – what if your phone says it’s offline but isn’t?

By Paul Ducklin — August 21st 2023 at 17:45
WYSIWYG is short for "what you see is what you get". Except when it isn't...

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S3 Ep146: Tell us about that breach! (If you want to.)

By Paul Ducklin — August 3rd 2023 at 17:56
Serious security stories explained clearly in plain English - listen now. (Full transcript available.)

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S3 Ep145: Bugs With Impressive Names!

By Paul Ducklin — July 27th 2023 at 18:47
Fascinating fun (with a serious and educational side) - listen now! Full transcript available inside.

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S3 Ep136: Navigating a manic malware maelstrom

By Paul Ducklin — May 25th 2023 at 16:50
Latest episode - listen now. Full transcript inside...

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PyPI open-source code repository deals with manic malware maelstrom

By Paul Ducklin — May 23rd 2023 at 18:45
Controlled outage used to keep malware marauders from gumming up the works. Learn what you can do to help in future...

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Zut alors! Raclage crapuleux! Clearview AI in 20% more trouble in France

By Paul Ducklin — May 15th 2023 at 16:36
We asked you once, we told you twice, now we're ordering you for the third time...

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PHP Packagist supply chain poisoned by hacker “looking for a job”

By Paul Ducklin — May 5th 2023 at 16:59
I pwned you! Gizza job! You know it makes sense!

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Tracked by hidden tags? Apple and Google unite to propose safety and security standards…

By Paul Ducklin — May 3rd 2023 at 19:58
To bleat, or not to bleat, that is the question.

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Attention gamers! Motherboard maker MSI admits to breach, issues “rogue firmware” alert

By Paul Ducklin — 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 Ep129: When spyware arrives from someone you trust

By Paul Ducklin — April 6th 2023 at 14:57
Scanning tools, supply-chain malware, Wi-Fi hacking, and why there should be TWO World Backup Days... listen now!

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Supply chain blunder puts 3CX telephone app users at risk

By Paul Ducklin — March 30th 2023 at 20:36
Booby-trapped app, apparently signed and shipped by 3CX itself after its source code repository was broken into.

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NPM JavaScript packages abused to create scambait links in bulk

By Paul Ducklin — February 22nd 2023 at 20:59
Free spins? Bonus game points? Cheap social media followers? What harm could it possibly do if you just take a tiny little look?!

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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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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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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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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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“Gucci Master” business email scammer Hushpuppi gets 11 years

By Naked Security writer — November 14th 2022 at 19:24
Learn how to protect yourself from big-money tricksters like the Hushpuppis of the world...

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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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S3 Ep98: The LastPass saga – should we stop using password managers? [Audio + Text]

By Paul Ducklin — September 1st 2022 at 16:55
Latest episode - listen now!

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Breaching airgap security: using your phone’s gyroscope as a microphone

By Paul Ducklin — August 24th 2022 at 18:59
One bit per second makes the Voyager probe data rate seem blindingly fast. But it's enough to break your security assumptions...

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Apple patches double zero-day in browser and kernel – update now!

By Paul Ducklin — August 17th 2022 at 23:33
Double 0-day exploits - one in WebKit (to break in) and the other in the kernel (to take over). Patch now!

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GitHub blighted by “researcher” who created thousands of malicious projects

By Paul Ducklin — August 3rd 2022 at 23:06
If you spew projects laced with hidden malware into an open source repository, don't waste your time telling us "no harm done" afterwards.

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Murder suspect admits she tracked cheating partner with hidden AirTag

By Paul Ducklin — June 14th 2022 at 18:49
O! What a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive.

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Poisoned Python and PHP packages purloin passwords for AWS access

By Paul Ducklin — May 24th 2022 at 23:04
More supply chain trouble - this time with clear examples so you can learn how to spot this stuff yourself.

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Clearview AI face-matching service fined a lot less than expected

By Paul Ducklin — May 23rd 2022 at 13:01
The fine has finally gone through... but it's less than 45% of what was originally proposed.

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RubyGems supply chain rip-and-replace bug fixed – check your logs!

By Paul Ducklin — May 9th 2022 at 15:41
Imagine if you could assume the identity of, say, Franklin Delano Roosevelt simply by showing up and calling yourself "Frank".

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GitHub issues final report on supply-chain source code intrusions

By Paul Ducklin — April 29th 2022 at 16:15
Learn how to find out which apps you've given access rights to, and how to revoke those rights immediately in an emergency.

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Beanstalk cryptocurrency heist: scammer votes himself all the money

By Paul Ducklin — April 19th 2022 at 16:00
Voting safeguards based on commuity collateral don't work if one person can use a momentary loan to "become" 75% of the community.

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S3 Ep72: AirTag stalking, web server coding woes and Instascams [Podcast + Transcript]

By Paul Ducklin — March 3rd 2022 at 14:04
Latest episode - listen now (or read it, if that's your preference)...

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Apple AirTag anti-stalking protection bypassed by researchers

By Paul Ducklin — February 23rd 2022 at 17:59
Problems with Apple's Tracker Detect system, which warns you of likely stalking attempts using hidden AirTags.

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Wormhole cryptotrading company turns over $340,000,000 to criminals

By Paul Ducklin — February 4th 2022 at 17:38
It was the best of blockchains, it was the worst of blockchains... as Charles Dickens might have said.

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S3 Ep65: Supply chain conniption, NetUSB hole, Honda flashback, FTC muscle [Podcast + Transcript]

By Paul Ducklin — January 13th 2022 at 15:26
Latest episode -listen to it or read it now!

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JavaScript developer destroys own projects in supply chain “lesson”

By Paul Ducklin — January 11th 2022 at 00:54
Two popular open source JavaScript packages recently got "hacked" in a symbolic gesture by the original project creator.

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S3 Ep63: Log4Shell (what else?) and Apple kernel bugs [Podcast+Transcript]

By Paul Ducklin — December 16th 2021 at 17:41
Latest episode - listen now! (Yes, there are plenty of critical things to go along with Log4Shell.)

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Clearview AI face-matching service set to be fined over $20m

By Paul Ducklin — November 30th 2021 at 19:13
Scraping data for a facial recognition service? "That's unlawful", concluded both the British and the Australians.

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Samba update patches plaintext password plundering problem

By Paul Ducklin — November 12th 2021 at 19:59
When Microsoft itself says STOP USING X, where X is one of its own protocols... we think you should listen.

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Sophos 2022 Threat Report: Malware, Mobile, Machine learning and more!

By Paul Ducklin — November 9th 2021 at 19:31
The crooks have shown that they're willing to learn and adapt their attacks, so we need to make sure we learn and adapt, too.

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Listen up 2 – CYBERSECURITY FIRST! How to protect yourself from supply chain attacks

By Paul Ducklin — October 25th 2021 at 16:38
Everyone remembers this year's big-news supply chain attacks on Kaseya and SolarWinds. Sophos expert Chester Wisniewski explains how to control the risk.

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