Naked Security
S3 Ep28: Pwn2Own hacks, dark web hitmen and COVID-19 privacy
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FBI hacks into hundreds of infected US servers (and disinfects them)
Hacking for good! A judge said I could!
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IoT bug report claims “at least 100M devices” may be impacted
The programmers among us are learning... but not always quickly enough, it seems. Here's some food for coding thought...
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Apple and Google block official UK COVID-19 app update
UK coronavirus app update apparently included "feature creep" that's explicitly prohibited by Apple's and Google's programming rules.
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Naked Security Live – How to spot “government” scammers
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Pwn2Own 2021: Zoom, Teams, Exchange, Chrome and Edge “fully owned”
Two lucky winners scooped $200k for just 30 minutes' work - if you don't count the days, weeks and months of meticulous effort beforehand
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Italian charged with hiring “dark web hitman” to murder his ex-girlfriend
Fortunately, this suspect wasn't as anonymous as he thought...
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S3 Ep27: Census scammers, beg bounties and data breach fines [Podcast]
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Too slow! Booking.com fined for not reporting data breach fast enough
It's not just the breach, it's the speed of the breach response...
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Criminals send out fake “census form” reminder – don’t fall for it!
Don't fall for fake text messages, no matter how realistic the website looks if you click through.
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S3 Ep26: Apple 0-day, crypto vulnerabilities and PHP backdoor [Podcast]
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PHP web language narrowly avoids dangerous supply chain attack
The crooks got in and added a backdoor to PHP, but it looks as though it was caught before any harm was done.
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Naked Security Live – Lessons beyond ransomware
Cybercrime isn't about just one sort of attack, one type of crook, or one method of protection!
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Serious Security: OpenSSL fixes two high-severity crypto bugs
The bug that broke security when you turned STRICT mode on...
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Apple devices get urgent patch for zero-day exploit – update now!
Universal Cross Site Scripting bug means all web browsing is potentially at risk. We explain in plain English.
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Alan Turing’s £50 banknote officially unveiled
If only he'd been treated like this in his ilfetime: the computing pioneer who knew "this is only a foretaste".
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S3 Ep25: Drained accounts, ransomware attacks and Linux badware [Podcast]
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BlackKingdom ransomware still exploiting insecure Exchange servers
Remember Hafnium? Here's the bad news - it's not over yet! Learn why and what to do...
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Naked Security Live – “XcodeSpy” takes aim at Mac and iOS developers
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Instagram scams and how to avoid them
Don't get taken for a sucker on social media! Here are our top tips to protect you from Instagram scams...
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