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Serious Security: Rowhammer returns to gaslight your computer

By Paul Ducklin — July 10th 2023 at 21:22
Gaslights produce a telltale flicker when nearby lamps are lit; DRAM values do something similar when nearby memory cells are accessed.

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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 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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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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Know your enemy! Learn how cybercrime adversaries get in…

By Paul Ducklin — June 7th 2022 at 15:49
Here's how 144 recent attacks actually went down in real life. Don't let this happen to you!

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Mysterious “Follina” zero-day hole in Office – here’s what to do!

By Paul Ducklin — May 30th 2022 at 23:01
News has emerged of a "feature" in Office that has been abused as a zero-day bug to run evil code. Turning off macros doesn't help!

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Ransomware with a difference: “Derestrict your software, or else!”

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

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French speakers blasted by sextortion scams with no text or links

By Paul Ducklin — 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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S3 Ep69: WordPress woes, Wormhole holes, and a Microsoft change of heart [Podcast + Transcript]

By Paul Ducklin — February 10th 2022 at 01:15
Latest episode - listen now!

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At last! Office macros from the internet to be blocked by default

By Paul Ducklin — February 8th 2022 at 16:34
It's been a long time coming, and we're not there yet, but at least Microsoft Office will be a bit safer against macro malware...

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Coronavirus SMS scam offers home PCR testing devices – don’t fall for it!

By Paul Ducklin — January 28th 2022 at 23:58
Free home PCR devices would be technological marvels, and really useful, too. But there aren't any...

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SFW! The Top N Cyber­security Stories of 2021 (for small positive integer values of N)

By Paul Ducklin — December 24th 2021 at 17:44
Happy Holidays! Our Top N stories, all totally SFW!

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The cool retro phone with a REAL DIAL… plus plenty of IoT problems

By Paul Ducklin — December 23rd 2021 at 17:58
You know you want one, because this retro phone is NOT A TOY... except when it comes to cybersecurity.

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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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