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S3 Ep149: How many cryptographers does it take to change a light bulb? from 2023-08-24T01:06:08

Miss Manners confronts copy-and-paste. WinRAR patches bugs. When Listen

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S3 Ep148: Remembering crypto heroes from 2023-08-17T12:20:22

Navajo Code Talkers Day. Beta bogosities. Skimming Listen

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S3 Ep147: What if you type in your password during a meeting? from 2023-08-09T23:43:44

An amazing Art Deco computer. Yet more performance-versus-security trouble. Is sound alone enough to Listen

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S3 Ep146: Tell us about that breach! (If you want to.) from 2023-08-03T16:32

Firefox fixes flaws. T...

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S3 Ep145: Bugs With Impressive Names! from 2023-07-27T14:38:32

Apple patches two zero-days, one for a second ...

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S3 Ep144: When threat hunting goes down a rabbit hole from 2023-07-20T13:05:24

Why your Mac's calendar app says it's JUL 17. One patch, ...

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S3 Ep143: Supercookie surveillance shenanigans from 2023-07-13T14:16:07

Remembering the slide rule. What you need to know Listen

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S3 Ep142: Putting the X in X-Ops from 2023-07-06T15:28:07

First there was DevOps, then SecOps, then DevSecOps. Or should that be SecDevOps? Paul Ducklin talks to Sophos X-Ops insider Matt Holdcroft about how to get all your corporate "Ops" te...

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S3 Ep141: What was Steve Jobs's first job? from 2023-06-29T14:29:25

PONG for one player. Apple pushes out anti-spyware patch. Bewa...

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S3 Ep140: So you think you know ransomware? from 2023-06-22T13:56:38

Gee Whizz BASIC (probably). Think you know ransomware? Megau...

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S3 Ep139: Are password rules like running through rain? from 2023-06-15T13:41:59

Magnetic core memory. Patch Tu...

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S3 Ep138: I like to MOVEit, MOVEit from 2023-06-08T12:58:34

Calling all modems. KeePass gets an update. MOVEit ge...

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S3 Ep137: 16th century crypto skullduggery from 2023-06-01T11:39:06

How to say "GIF". A Blackmailer-in-the-Middle attack. Kn...

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S3 Ep136: Navigating a manic malware maelstrom from 2023-05-25T11:15:19

Luminiferous aether. A $10m cybercrime reward. Bank scam kingpi...

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S3 Ep135: Sysadmin by day, extortionist by night from 2023-05-18T12:51:12

An Apple product that flopped (and was not the Newton). Two-faced sysadmin Listen

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S3 Ep134: It's a PRIVATE key - the hint is in the name! from 2023-05-11T12:21:20

The world-changing Visible Calculator. How Listen

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S3 Ep133: Apple takes "tight-lipped" to a whole new level from 2023-05-04T13:59:32

New England gets BASIC. Google hits...

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S3 Ep131: Can you really have fun with FORTRAN? from 2023-04-20T14:35:04

Fun with FORTRAN?! An Listen

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S3 Ep130: Open the garage bay doors, HAL from 2023-04-13T14:15:15

A common business-oriented language. Patch Tuesday<...

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S3 Ep129: When spyware arrives from someone you trust from 2023-04-06T12:53:14

A supply chain attack that foisted spyware on trusting users. Wi-Fi Listen

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S3 Ep128: So you want to be a cybercriminal? from 2023-03-30T13:45:49

RIP Gordon Moore, the more in Moore's Law. Photo cropping Listen

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S3 Ep127: When you chop someone out of a photo, but there they are anyway... from 2023-03-23T16:05:16

The mobile phone bugs that Google kept quiet, just in case. T...

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S3 Ep126: The price of fast fashion (and feature creep) from 2023-03-16T17:36:57

The price of fast fashion. Firefox Listen

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S3 Ep125: When security hardware has security holes from 2023-03-09T17:25:17

Memories of Michelangelo (the virus, not the artist). Data leakage bugs in Listen

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S3 Ep124: When so-called security apps go rogue from 2023-03-02T00:49:06

How Woz nearly gave away the Apple I. Rogue software packages. Listen

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S3 Ep123: Crypto company compromise kerfuffle from 2023-02-23T16:59:13

The first search warrant for computer storage. GoDaddy breach. Twitter Listen

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S3 Ep122: Stop calling every breach "sophisticated"! from 2023-02-16T12:45:58

The birth of ENIAC. A "sophisticated attack" (someone got phished). A crypt...

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S3 Ep121: When cybercrime victims are culprits, too from 2023-02-09T01:07:38

Cryptocurrency crimelords. Security patches for Listen

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S3 Special: Tracers in the Dark with Andy Greenberg from 2023-02-06T17:31:28

Do we really need a "war against cryptography" - codes and ciphers that the government can easily crack if it thinks there's an emergency - to ce...

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S3 Ep120: When dud crypto simply won't let go from 2023-02-02T15:52:12

The mighty CPU that wasn't. Hive ransomware takedown. DutchListen

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S3 Ep119: Breaches, patches, leaks and tweaks! from 2023-01-26T12:19:03

The programming language almost called Oak. GoTo admits to more brea...

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S3 Ep118: Guess your password? No need if it's stolen already! from 2023-01-19T01:46:33

The HAPPY99 virus reminds us that less is more. Trouble with JSON Web...

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S3 Ep117: The crypto crisis that wasn't (and farewell forever to Win 7) from 2023-01-12T16:27:31

Two stories from the underground. Bank scammers busted. The Listen

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S3 Ep116: Last straw for LastPass? Is crypto doomed? from 2023-01-05T13:46:45

The ground-breaking HP-35 digital calculator. Listen

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S3 Ep115: True crime stories - A day in the life of a cybercrime fighter from 2022-12-29T00:27:26

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more! 

Paul Ducklin talks to Peter Mackenzie, Director of Incident Response at Sophos, in a cybersecurity session that will alarm, amuse...

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S3 Ep114: Preventing cyberthreats - stop them before they stop you! from 2022-12-22T15:26:11

Join world-renowned Sophos expert Fraser Howard, Director of Research at SophosLabs, for this fascinating episode, recorded during our recent Security SOS Week 2022. When it comes to fighting cy...

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S3 Ep113: Pwning the Windows kernel: the crooks who hoodwinked Microsoft from 2022-12-15T14:51:13

The irony of the CAN-SPAM law. When genuine kernel drivers go rogue....

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S3 Ep112: Beware! Data breaches can haunt you more than once... from 2022-12-08T14:58:43

The worm that wasn't a Goner. LastPass suffers a sting in the data br...

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S3 Ep111: The business risk of a sleazy "nudity unfilter" from 2022-12-01T14:19:45

Christmas-themed wormage. Prurient malware. Cryptorom Listen

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S3 Ep110: Spotlight on cyberthreats - an expert speaks from 2022-11-24T13:37:52

Security specialist John Shier tells you the "news you can really use" - how to boost your cybersecurity based on real-world advice from the 2023 So...

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S3 Ep109: How one leaked email password could drain your business from 2022-11-17T17:01:28

Microsoft's tilt at the MP3 marketplace. Apple's not-a-zero-day emergency. C...

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S3 Ep108: What would YOU do if you found $3 billion in a popcorn tin? from 2022-11-10T15:38:31

Radio waves so mysterious they're known only as X-Rays. Were there six ...

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S3 Ep107: Eight months to kick out the crooks and you think that's GOOD? from 2022-11-03T15:51:17

The man who put Boole in Boolean. OpenSSL's bated-breath update. A...

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S3 Ep106: Facial recognition without consent - should it be banned? from 2022-10-27T11:44:46

Windows XP (fondly?!) remembered. Clearview AI courts con...

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S3 Ep105: WONTFIX! The MS Office cryptofail that "isn't a security flaw" from 2022-10-20T13:49:15

Coolest videogame ever. Zoom thinks everyone's a developer. The Patch Tuesday Listen

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S3 Ep104: Should hospital ransomware attackers be locked up for life? from 2022-10-13T13:20:54

What goes up... must come down. Ransomware criminal avoids a life sen...

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S3 Ep103.5: OAuth 2 and why Microsoft is forcing you into it from 2022-10-09T19:52:54

Naked Security meets Sophos X-Ops! Duck and Chet dig into OAuth 2.0, a well-known protocol for author...

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S3 Ep103: Scammers in the Slammer (and other stories) from 2022-10-06T12:07:20

A fridge-sized calculator made with transistors (really). ProxyNo...

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S3 Ep102.5: "ProxyNotShell" Exchange bugs - an expert speaks from 2022-10-01T12:27:32

Chester Wisniewski gives you actionable advice on how to deal with two actively exploited Exchange zero-d...

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S3 Ep102: Cutting through cybersecurity news hype from 2022-09-29T11:16:26

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S3 Ep101: Uber and LastPass - is 2FA all it's cracked up to be? from 2022-09-22T14:33:43

Security SOS Week 2022 - check it out! The very first Android. Firefox 1...

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S3 Ep100.5: Uber breach - an expert speaks from 2022-09-17T20:02:10

Chester Wisniewski explains what we can learn from Uber's latest cybsecurity crisis: "Just because a big company...

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S3 Ep100: Browser-in-the-Browser hacking – how to spot an attack from 2022-09-14T21:24:27

Second Cosmic Rocket (not a band!) Microsoft 0-day. Listen

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S3 Ep99: TikTok "attack" - was there a data breach, or not? from 2022-09-08T11:18:33

The bug that was a moth. Was there really a TikTok breach? Peter Eckersley: ...

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S3 Ep98: The LastPass saga - should we stop using password managers? from 2022-09-01T00:48:11

The Computer Misuse Act, back in 1990. JavaScript supply-chain bug hun...

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S3 Ep97: A musical crash, ATM skimming, and was your iPhone pwned? from 2022-08-25T00:11:14

Start me up. The R&B dance classic that crashed computers. Bitcoin ...

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S3 Ep96: Zoom 0-day, AEPIC leak, Conti reward, heathcare security from 2022-08-18T00:03:39

Chester attends DEF CON from afar. Zoom fixes an 0-day. An Listen

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S3 Ep95: Slack leak, Github onslaught, and post-quantum crypto from 2022-08-10T23:57:01

Memories of the Blaster worm. Slack leaked password hashes for FIVE YEARS. Github Listen

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S3 Ep94: This sort of crypto (graphy), and the other sort of crypto (currency!) from 2022-08-04T15:01:35

Queen Victoria goes online. A nasty bug in Samba. Smile...

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S3 Ep93: Office security, data breach costs, and leisurely patches from 2022-07-28T01:00:32

Geosynchronicity. Office security (on-off-on). A half-billion-dollar Listen

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S3 Ep92: Log4Shell4Ever, summer tips, and scammer timing from 2022-07-21T00:49:30

Integrated circuits and Nobel prizes. Log4Shell - forever? Cybersecurity Listen

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S3 Ep91: Code Red, OpenSSL, Java bugs and Office macros from 2022-07-14T11:39:31

Memories of the Code Red worm. OpenSSL fixes two tiny but troublesome bugs. More Listen

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S3 Ep90: Chrome 0-day again, True Cybercrime, and a 2FA bypass from 2022-07-07T00:07:33

Chrome quashes another zero-day browser bug. Two Listen

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S3 Ep89: Sextortion, blockchain blunder, and an OpenSSL bugfix from 2022-06-30T00:10:26

Memories of the iPhone 1. Sextortion scams target LGBTQ+ daters. Yet another Listen

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S3 Ep88: Phone scammers, hacking bust, and data breach fines from 2022-06-23T10:50:49

Duck gets behind the Ducks. 2000 phone scammers arrested in Interpol action. A three-year-old hacking case Listen

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S3 Ep87: Follina, AirTags, ID theft and the Law of Big Numbers from 2022-06-15T13:09:40

Computer Science in the 1800s. Fixing Follina. Listen

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S3 Ep86: The crooks were in our network for HOW long?! from 2022-06-08T20:44:54

The dawn of the x86 era. The Active Adversary Playbook. A Listen

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S3 Ep85: Now THAT'S what I call a Microsoft Office exploit! from 2022-06-02T00:18:58

Why calling a computer after a famous scientist doesn't always help. The wacky but dangerous 0-day hole in Windows...

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S3 Ep84: Government demand, Mozilla velocity, and Clearview fine from 2022-05-26T20:44:17

How network comms caught a murderer back in in 1845. Why the US government said, "Patch, or else!" How Mo...

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S3 Ep83: Cracking passwords, patching Firefox, and Apple vulns from 2022-05-18T23:33:36

What does the word "non-commensurate" mean? When is cracking passwords legal? Why did Listen

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S3 Ep82: Bugs, bugs, bugs (and Colonial Pipeline again) from 2022-05-11T23:38:49

Where does the word "radio" come from? RubyGems supply chain rip-and-replace bug. A weird, weird, weird, ...

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S3 Ep79: Chrome hole, a bad-choice holiday, and cryptododginess from 2022-04-20T23:24:48

Adam Osborne or John Osbourne? Another 0-day in Chrome. How Listen

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S3 Ep78: Darkweb hydra, Ruby, quantum computing, and a robot revolution from 2022-04-14T13:06:38

Hydra darkweb market decapitated. Ruby module Listen

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S3 Ep75: Okta, CryptoRom, OpenSSL and CafePress from 2022-03-24T00:07:05

LAPSUS$ hackers break into Okta. The CryptoRom money-scamming malware is back on phones. OpenSSL gets into a...

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S3 Ep74: Cybercrime busts, Apple patches, Pi Day, and disconnect effects from 2022-03-17T13:25:12

Two ransomware suspects extradited for trial. Apple patches Listen

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S3 Ep73: Ransomware with a difference, dirty Linux pipes, and more from 2022-03-10T01:57:38

What do ransomware blackmailers ask for when they don't want money? Why did Firefox get Listen

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S3 Ep72: AirTag stalking, web server coding woes and Instascams from 2022-03-03T00:51:04

How good is Apple's AirTag stalker detection? Why are web coders still making Listen

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S3 Ep71: VMware escapes, PHP holes, WP plugin woes, and scary scams from 2022-02-24T16:41:36

VM escapes could put your host servers at risk. PHP fixes an Listen

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S3 Ep70: Bitcoin, billing blunders, and 0-day after 0-day after 0-day from 2022-02-17T00:58:52

Alleged Bitcoin fraudsters busted, power company in Listen

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S3 Ep68: Bugs, scams, privacy... and fonts?! from 2022-02-03T00:38:26

Stealing root on Linux. Snooping on RAM with a video driver bug. Apple patches a zero-day hole. SMS scams promise home PCR machines. German court freaks out over fonts. How to be private. And a ...

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S3 Ep67: Tax scams, carder busts and crypto capers from 2022-01-27T12:05:28

Watch out for tax scams. Crooks with the motto "Listen

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S3 Ep65: Supply chain conniption, NetUSB hole, Honda flashback, FTC muscle from 2022-01-13T12:40:12

A JavaScript coder sabotages his own projects. Routers with Listen

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S3 Ep64: Log4Shell again, scammers keeping busy, and Apple Home bug from 2022-01-06T00:13:04

Log4Shell - the gift that keeps on taking. Scammers threatening your Listen

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S3 Ep63: Log4Shell (what else?) and Apple kernel bugs from 2021-12-16T15:47:22

Understanding Log4Shell. Fixing Log4Shell. What Listen

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S3 Ep62: The S in IoT stands for security (and much more) from 2021-12-09T17:33:06

Mozilla's "BigSig" buffer overflow hole. UK to put Listen

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S3 Ep61: Call scammers, cloud insecurity, and facial recognition creepiness from 2021-12-02T17:34:15

Call scammers and cryptocoin treachery. Cloud insecurity and yet more Listen

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S3 Ep60: Exchange exploit, GoDaddy breach and cookies made public from 2021-11-25T01:35:34

Cybersecurity tips for the holiday season and beyond. Exchange at risk from Listen

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S3 Ep59: Emotet, an FBI hoax, Samba bugs, and a hijackable suitcase from 2021-11-18T14:35:09

The infamous Emotet malware makes a comeback. Crooks Listen

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S3 Ep57: Europol v. Ransomware, Shrootless bug, and Linux browser flamewars from 2021-11-04T17:41:25

Norbert (huzzah for Norbert!) does tech support. Europol digs into the ransomware scene. Microsoft finds ...

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S3 Ep56: Cryptotrading rodent, ransomware hackback, and a Docusign phish from 2021-10-28T11:56:50

Bliss is a hill in wine country. Lessons from a cryptotrading hamster. Ransomware gang Listen

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S3 Ep55.8: Purple teaming - learning to think like your adversaries from 2021-10-25T16:39:12

Special minisode! Michelle Farenci knows her stuff, because she's a cybersecurity practitioner inside a cybersecurity company. Learn why thinking like an attacker makes you a better defender. Listen

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S3 Ep55.6: Cyberinsurance - help or hindrance? from 2021-10-25T16:24:49

Special minisode! Dr Jason Nurse, Associate Professor in Cybersecurity at the University of Kent, takes on the controversial topic of cyberinsurance.

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S3 Ep55.4: Supply chain attacks and how to avoid them from 2021-10-25T15:03:50

Special minisode! Chester Wisniewski, Principal Research Scientist at Sophos, gives you useful and actionable advice to reduce the risk of supply chain attacks.

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S3 Ep55.2: Malware - the never-ending story from 2021-10-25T11:24:09

Special Minisode for #Cybermonth! Fraser Howard, Director of Threat Research at Sophos, talks about malware and how to fight it. Fraser's breadth and depth of knowledge in the threat-fighting fi...

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S3 Ep55: Live malware, global encryption, dating scams, and secret emanations from 2021-10-21T14:53:57

Hook up with our forthcoming Live Malware Demo presentation. Why we think Listen

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S3 Ep54: Another 0-day, double Apache patch, and Fight The Phish from 2021-10-14T12:16:27

Apple (you guessed it!) fixes yet another iPhone 0-day. Apache patches an embarrassing bug and then ...

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S3 Ep52: Let's Encrypt, Outlook leak, and VMware exploit from 2021-09-30T00:53:24

Let's Encrypt brings HTTPS to everyone. Researchers rediscover an Outlook Listen

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S3 Ep51: OMIGOD a gaping hole, waybill scams, and Face ID hacked from 2021-09-22T22:06:50

A scarily exploitable hole in Microsoft open source code. A Listen

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S3 Ep49: Poison PACs, pointless alarms and phunky bugs from 2021-09-09T16:34:10

Overlooked security flaw leaves web code vulnerable. A home alarm system that Listen

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S3 Ep47: Daylight robbery, spaghetti trouble, and mousetastic superpowers from 2021-08-26T00:26:43

More money troubles in cryptotown. Trouble with Listen

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S3 Ep46: Copyright scams, video snooping and Grand Theft Crypto from 2021-08-18T16:24:58

Copyright infringement scams that beg you to call. An IoT bug that could be Listen

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S3 Ep45: Routers attacked, hacking tool hacked, and betrayers betrayed from 2021-08-12T13:37:10

Home and small business routers under attack. A hacking tool favoured by crooks Listen

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S3 Ep44: Unreported holes, retro computing, and tech support for malware from 2021-08-05T01:00:44

The latent 0-day that didn't get reported until it was too late. Retro computing: reliving the TRS-80. Crook...

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S3 Ep43: Apple 0-day, pygmy hippos, hive nightmares and Twitter hacker bust from 2021-07-28T20:30:09

Apple's emergency 0-day fix. Two sorts of Windows nightmare, neither involving printers. Twitter hacker busted. And our very o...

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S3 Ep41: Crashing iPhones, PrintNightmares, and Code Red memories from 2021-07-14T23:28:15

We explain how a format string bug could lock your iPhone out of your own network. We revisit the PrintNightmare saga, w...

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S3 Ep40: Kaseya breach, PrintNightmare 0-day, and hacking versus the law from 2021-07-08T16:39:48

The "Independence Day Weekend" ransomware drama. The Listen

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S3 Ep39.5: A conversation with Eva Galperin from 2021-07-05T19:29:24

In this special splintersode, Kimberly Truong talks to Eva Galperin, Director of Security at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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S3 Ep39: Paying the date, #SocialMediaDay tips, and a special splintersode from 2021-06-30T17:34:57

When you spend tens of pounds but get billed thousands because the system mistook the date for the amount. Our tips ...

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S3 Ep38: Clop busts, destructive Linux hacking, and rooted bicycles from 2021-06-24T12:42:04

Ukrainian cops bring out the BFG (Big Fearsome Grinder) and cut open some doors. A repeated request for ...

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S3 Ep37: Quantum crypto, refunding Bitcoins, and Alpaca problems from 2021-06-17T13:48:48

Will quantum cryptography mean the end of encryption? How was the FBI able to Listen

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S3 Ep36: Trickbot coder busted, passwords cracked, and breaches judged from 2021-06-10T00:58:11

Alleged malware coder from the Trickbot gang arrested. 5500 passwords cracked and salaries stolen by "cr...

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S3 Ep35: Apple chip flaw, Have I Been Pwned, and Covid tracker trouble from 2021-06-03T12:20:50

The fascinating tale of a bug that's baked into Apple's latest chip. Why the Aussie data breach warning sit...

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S3 Ep34: Apple bugs, scammers busted, and how crooks bypass 2FA from 2021-05-26T15:32:12

Apple patches a raft of serious security holes. Police Listen

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S3 Ep33: Eufy camera leak, Afterburner crisis, and AirTags (again) from 2021-05-19T23:22:07

We look into an unnerving case of mixed-up video feeds. We warn you against "going rogue" when you can't g...

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S3 Ep32: AirTag jailbreak, Dell vulns, and the never-ending scam from 2021-05-12T22:53:04

Apple's brand new AirTag product got hacked already. Things you can learn from Colonial Pipeline's Listen

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S3 Ep31: Apple zero-days, Flubot scammers and PHP supply chain bug from 2021-05-05T22:56:02

We look into Apple's recent emergency updates that closed off four in-the-wild browser bugs. W...

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S3 Ep30: AirDrop worries, Linux pests and ransomware truths from 2021-04-29T00:44:01

We investigate whether AirDrop is really as dangerous as researchers claimed. We discuss the Listen

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S3 Ep29: Anti-tracking, rowhammer problems and IoT vulns from 2021-04-21T22:41:49

How Firefox showed the hand to a widely abused online tracking trick. Why reading from one part of your computer's memory c...

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S3 Ep28.5: Hacking back - is attack an acceptable form of defence? from 2021-04-16T12:52:29

Sophos cybersecurity expert Chester Wisniewski provides excellent, topical and timely commentary on the FBI’s recent use of a Listen

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S3 Ep28: Pwn2Own hacks, dark web hitmen and COVID-19 privacy from 2021-04-14T21:39:05

We look at the big-money hacks from the 2021 Pwn2Own competition. We investigate the difficulties ...

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S3 Ep27: Census scammers, beg bounties and data breach fines from 2021-04-07T23:02:56

How scammers copied a government website almost to perfection. What to do about those Listen

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S3 Ep26: Apple 0-day, crypto vulnerabilities and PHP backdoor from 2021-04-01T00:06:56

Why Apple had to rush out a security update for iDevices. Two cryptographic Listen

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S3 Ep25: Drained accounts, ransomware attacks and Linux badware from 2021-03-25T00:06:02

How a social engineer ripped off a victim lured in by one of those "small outstanding fee to pay" home delivery scams. The ransomware crooks targeting networks that still haven’t done their Hafn...

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S3 Ep24: How not to get snooped, scammed or hoaxed from 2021-03-17T23:28:01

We discuss an iPhone app that allowed anyone to snoop on anyone's calls - but not in the way you might expect. We i...

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S3 Ep23.5: An interview with cybersecurity expert John Noble CBE from 2021-03-15T14:13:41

John Noble was Director of Incident Management at the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) until his retirement in 2018. During his 40 years of Government service, John specialised in oper...

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S3 Ep23: Hafnium happenings, I see you, and Pythonic poison from 2021-03-10T23:24:29

Getting to grips with the HAFNIUM gang/vulnerabilities/exploits/webshells/attacks....

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S3 Ep22: Cryptographic escapes and social media scams from 2021-03-04T13:06:45

How to stop security-conscious apps from allowing unencrypted data to escape, and how scammers put...

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S3 Ep21: Cryptomining clampdown, the 100-ton man, and ScamClub ads from 2021-02-25T10:31:18

The graphics card that wants you to stick to playing games, the man that didn't Listen

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S3 Ep20: Corporate megahacking, true love gone bad, and tax grabs from 2021-02-17T22:41:57

How a bug hunter snuck into the internal networks of 35 megacorporations. Why romance scams are going Listen

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S3 Ep19.5: How NOT to be a bug bounty hunter from 2021-02-12T14:00:42

In this special mini-episode, Paul Ducklin talks to Sophos cybersecurity expert Chester Wisniewski about bug bounty hunting.


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S3 Ep19: Chrome zero-day, coffee hacking and Perl.com stolen from 2021-02-11T00:03:34

We delve into Google's tight-lipped Chrome bugfix, explain how a Belgian researcher awarded himself Listen

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S3 Ep18: Apple emergency, crypto blunder and botnet takedown from 2021-02-04T00:07:59

Apple pushed out an iOS update in a hurry to shut down a serious 0-day bug. The GnuPG team s...

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S3 Ep17: Facemasks, hidden ads and paranormal hacking from 2021-01-28T00:31:23

What's the connection between coronavirus facemasks and fingerprint biometrics? Who would hav...

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S3 Ep16: Darkweb bust, security at home, and browser snoopage from 2021-01-20T23:50:23

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S3 Ep15.5: Home schooling - how to stay secure from 2021-01-19T12:38:24

Thanks to coronavirus lockdown rules in the UK, and the temporary closure of all schools, Sally Adam suddenly found herself responsible for cybersecurity where it mattered more than ever: on a h...

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S3 Ep15: Titan keys, Mimecast certs and Solarwinds from 2021-01-14T15:20:19

We explain how two French researchers hacked a Google Titan security key (but why you don't need to panic), and d...

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S3 Ep14: Money scams, HTTPS by default, and hardcoded passwords from 2021-01-07T13:12:08

We advise you how to react when a friend suddenly asks for money, explain why Chromium is finally aiming for Listen

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S3 Ep13: A chat with hacker Keren Elazari from 2020-12-31T11:44:33

How did the movie "Hackers" inspire a girl to grow up to become a hacker herself? Find out from security analyst, friendly hacker and TED Talk speaker Keren Elazari. Hear about Keren’s incredibl...

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S3 Ep12: A chat with social engineering hacker Rachel Tobac from 2020-12-24T12:21:26

How do you go from neuroscientist to DEFCON Social Engineering Capture the Flag champ? Find out from hacker and social engineering expert Rachel Tobac. Join us for a fascinating interview with R...

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S3 Ep11: DIY phishes, sandwich scams and vaccine hacking from 2020-12-17T14:13:02

We look at phishing tricks that really work, investigate a bizarre scam involving Subway sandwiches, and ask whether cybercriminals have lost their interest in the rest of us now they have coron...

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S3 Ep10.5: 20 years of cyberthreats that shaped infosec from 2020-12-14T00:10:34

Naked Security's Paul Ducklin interviews Sophos expert John Shier about his recently published paper, "20 years of cyberthreats that shaped information security."


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S3 Ep10: Hacking iPhones, sunken Enigmas and double scams from 2020-12-10T14:24:53

We dig into research that figured out a way to steal data from iPhones wirelessly, we tell the fascinating story of how environmentalist divers in Germany came across an old Enigma cipher machin...

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S3 Ep9: Gift card hacks, dubious doorbells and Wi-Fi tips from 2020-12-03T14:26:10

We look at a network intrusion where the crooks tried to take over dozens of different online accounts from every user, we discuss the potential dangers of digital doorbells, and we give you som...

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S3 Ep8: A conversation with Katie Moussouris from 2020-11-25T13:19:37

How do you go from pentester to creator of Microsoft’s bug bounty program? Find out from hacker and vulnerability disclosure pioneer, Katie Moussouris. Join us for a fascinating interview with K...

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S3 Ep7: When ransomware crooks get a big fat zero! from 2020-11-19T12:45:33

In this episode: we say thanks to companies that refuse to pay ransomware hush money, dig into the new Sophos 2021 Threat Report, and take a quick look inside a malicious Linux kernel driver. Al...

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S3 Ep6: How not to get scammed from 2020-11-12T15:34:55

In this episode: When payments go astray, why "just in case" cybersecurity warnings do more harm than good, how to shop safely on Black Friday and beyond, and (oh no!) what to do when all your e...

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S3 Ep5: Chrome, Flash and malware for sale from 2020-11-05T13:55:28

In this episode: a zero-day bug in Chrome for Android, the imminent death of Adobe Flash, the evolution of "malware-as-a-service", and the malware risks from image search. Also (oh! no!), why yo...

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S3 Ep4.5: FBI "ransomware warning" for healthcare is a warning for everyone from 2020-10-30T17:18:07

On Wednesday, the FBI, CISA and HHS released an unprecedented warning against "an increased and imminent cybercrime threat to U.S. hospitals and healthcare providers." In this quick mini-sode, C...

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S3 Ep4: Facebook scams, vishing, and smartphone privacy tips from 2020-10-30T00:59:13

This week: Facebook scammers trick you with fake copyright notices, voice scammers automate their attacks on the vulnerable, how to tune up your mobile privacy, and (oh! no!) the best/worst IT h...

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S3 Ep3: Breaking crypto, busting hackers and pwning Chrome from 2020-10-22T21:52:26

This week: the DOJ's attempt to reignite the Battle to Break Encryption; the story of the Russian hackers behind the Sandworm Team; a zero-day bug just patched in Chrome; and (oh no!) why your v...

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S3 Ep2: Creepy smartwatches, botnets and Pings of Death from 2020-10-15T21:26:45

In this episode: we investigate a smartwatch for kids with a creepy set of functions, discuss Microsoft's short-lived takedown of Trickbot, explain how to avoid the Windows "Ping of Death" bug, ...

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S3 Ep1: Ransomware - is it really OK to pay? from 2020-10-09T00:36:45

Join us for the first episode in our brand new Series 3! This week we wonder whether Cybersecurity Awareness Month is a waste of time, explain the concept of "linkless phishing", ask if it's eve...

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S3 Trailer: We're back! from 2020-10-05T15:17:14

Get ready. A brand new season arrives Thursday, October 8th. 

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S2 Ep42: Apple auth attack, Octopus Scanner, Escobar escapades from 2020-06-05T10:34:58

END OF SERIES SPECIAL: This week Mark shares why Pablo Escobar’s brother is suing Apple for $2.6b, Greg talks about a malicious ‘Octopus Scanner’ targeting developers on Github and Duck discusses t...

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S2 Ep41: Super-sized ransomware, FBI v Apple and AirPods hot or not from 2020-05-27T16:16:30

This week Peter shares how Ragnar Locker ransomware deploys a virtual machine to dodge security, Mark discusses the latest in the Apple v FBI saga and Duck talks "MagicPairing." Producer Alice Duc...

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S2 Ep40: Demonic printers, a sleazy stalker and 10 reasons to patch from 2020-05-20T15:39:46

This week we discuss a customer who went to Subway for a sandwich and left with a stalker, demon printers and the things you should patch now. Producer Alice Duckett is joined by Sophos experts M...

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S2 Ep39: Thunderspy, government encryption, and reply all mistakes from 2020-05-13T12:38:09

In this episode Mark discusses government encryption, Duck tells us why turning your computer off is a cool idea and Greg regales us with his reply all woes. Host Anna Brading is joined by Sophos...

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S2 Ep38: Crashing iPhones, ransomware tales and human chatbots from 2020-05-06T16:55:38

In this episode Duck discusses the iPhone "word of death", Peter shares a shocking ransomware story and Alice talks about a chatbot that shows empathy. Or so it says. Host Anna Brading is joined b...

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S2 Ep37: Microsoft fixes, airgap fun and free games for 2FA from 2020-04-30T13:37:12

This week we talk ransomware apologies, whether companies should be pushing 2FA and good vibrations, kind of... We're proud to be nominated for Best Cybersecurity Podcast in the European Cybersec...

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S2 Ep36: Rogue Chrome extensions, Signal fears and Darth Vader from 2020-04-22T15:52:52

This week we discuss 49 rogue Chrome extensions, Signal fears over the EARN IT Act and how Darth Vader sent someone viral for all the wrong reasons. Host Anna Brading is joined by Sophos experts ...

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S2 Ep35: TikTok woes, sextortion scams and passwords vs. single sign-on from 2020-04-15T14:10:50

This week we discuss a TikTok flaw, why sextortion scammers are rearing their heads again and whether single sign-on is better than having loads of different passwords. Host Anna Brading is joine...

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S2 Ep34: Can you trust hackers on how not to get hacked? from 2020-04-08T18:08:37

This week we discuss the hackers' forum that got hacked (lol), how the coronavirus pandemic has deferred a security update, and why jumping to conclusions is always a bad idea. Oh, and we came ac...

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S2 Ep33: Ransomware on sale, dark web disaster, dead drops and pillow forts from 2020-04-01T19:37:24

This week we bring you the podcast from our makeshift home studios (pillow forts). We discuss Dharma ransomware, the tour guide who turned out to be a Chinese spy, and why thousands of dark web sit...

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S2 Ep32: ZoomBombing, Android malware and the WhatsApp Martinelli hoax from 2020-03-25T12:55:37

In this episode, Greg looks at why the WhatsApp Martinelli hoax has come back in a big way, Duck decompiles some coronavirus-themed Android malware, and Anna tells you what ZoomBombing is and why y...

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S2 Ep31: Remote working, malwareless ransomware and EARN IT from 2020-03-19T20:12:28

This week, Duck advises how to keep your company safe while working remotely, Peter discusses a malwareless ransomware attack, and Mark shares the latest in the EARN IT saga. Host Anna Brading is ...

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S2 Ep30: Let's Encrypt, ULTRASONIC attacks and ransomware in your backups from 2020-03-11T15:20:13

This week we talk about why Let's Encrypt might have to celebrate its billionth certificate twice, wonder if James Bond could hack Siri with ultrasound and make backups surprisingly interesting. H...

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IWD: Biometrics, machine learning, privacy and being a woman in tech from 2020-03-07T12:39:21

To celebrate International Women's Day we invite you to this all-female splinter episode. We discuss privacy, biometrics, machine learning, social media, getting into cybersecurity and of course, w...

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S2 Ep29: Facial recognition, malware madness and smart speakers from 2020-03-04T11:16:20

This week we discuss the latest in the Clearview AI debacle, get more tales from the ransomware swamp and discover how often our smart speakers are listening to us. Host Anna Brading is joined by ...

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S2 Ep28: Stalkerware, when cybercrooks return, and phishing gone wild from 2020-02-26T17:34:36

This week we discuss the stalkerware app that spilled bucketloads of ultrapersonal data, a double-whammy ransomware attack on a homeless charity, and an Amazon Prime phishing attack with a skull-a...

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S2 Ep27: Bluetooth vulnerabilities, dodgy Chrome extensions and forgotten encryption passwords from 2020-02-21T11:21:10

This week we discuss why Google abruptly pulled over 500 Chrome extensions from its Web Store, the case of a man held in custody for refusing to decrypt two hard drives and research detailing a num...

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S2 Ep26: Robbin Hood ransomware, Twitter parodies and SMS 2FA WHAT? from 2020-02-12T16:53:16

This week we welcome back Peter who discusses RobbinHood - the ransomware that brings its own bug. Greg explains how a student's Twitter account was handed over to their college and Duck talks SMS ...

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S2 Ep25: You've seen WHAT on public Trello boards? from 2020-02-05T16:43:50

Over the past couple of years, Sophos' Director of Security Craig Jones has discovered a worrying amount of personal data on public Trello boards. Mark says companies shouldn’t microchip their empl...

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S2 Ep24: Tinder, angry customers and weleakinfo takedown from 2020-01-29T16:17:34

This week we discuss 70,000 images being stolen from Tinder, the weleakinfo.com FBI bust and how Sonos annoyed its longstanding customers. Host Anna Brading is joined by Sophos experts Mark Stockl...

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S2 Ep23: Snake ransomware, VPN vulnerabilities and is your phone listening to you? from 2020-01-16T14:52:41

This week we cover Snake ransomware, VPN vulnerabilities and decide whether our phones are spying on us. Mark also revisits his growing list of pet peeves and Anna tests whether getting deep fake...

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S2 Ep22: Word doc stops fraud, bye bye Python 2, latest from the ransomware swamp from 2020-01-08T14:47:06

This week we discuss the IT exec who scammed his employer out of $6m with fake invoices and the death of Python 2. Peter also shares two of his latest investigations from the ransomware swamp. Pro...

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S2 Ep21 - Plundervolt, domain name gunfight and Facebook snubs Congress from 2019-12-18T19:20:12

Here are the week's top stories - we explain the Plundervolt attack, look into a gunfight over a domain name, and explore the encryption drama that's unfolding between Facebook and Congress. Host ...

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S2 Ep20 - Why don't they send ransomware on floppies anymore? from 2019-12-11T15:45:44

As always, we pick the top three cybersecurity stories of the week to discuss. This week we talk about open-source supply chain madness, Snatch ransomware and iPhone 11 tracking concerns. Host An...

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S2 Ep19 - One of us just prevented a ransomware attack from 2019-12-04T15:15:33

Peter Mackenzie saved a casino from a ransomware attack, a children's smartwatch leaks location data and HPE warns of impending SSD disk doom. Host Anna Brading is joined by Peter Mackenzie, Paul ...

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S2 Ep18 – Missing cryptoqueen, festive phishing and can the web be saved? from 2019-11-27T13:51:36

This week we discuss the large scale crypto-scam which tricked people into investing $400m, Tim Berners-Lee's proposed principles to save the web from a 'digital dystopia' and how to stay safe onli...

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S2 Ep17 - Fake AirBnBs, lying ISPs and a glance at the cyberfuture from 2019-11-13T15:56:15

A huge Airbnb scam ends with promises to verify every host and listing, Mozilla says ISPs are lying to Congress about encrypted DNS and we discuss the Sophos Threat Report 2020. Host Anna Brading ...

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S2 Ep16 - BlueKeep's back, ransomware batters Spain, and yet more sextortion from 2019-11-06T14:43:08

Mass ransomware hit Spain earlier this week, BlueKeep's back and there's yet another twist in the sextortion saga. Sophos experts Mark Stockley, Peter Mackenzie and Paul Ducklin join Producer Ali...

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S2 Ep15 - City under attack! VPN hacked, floppies nixed from 2019-10-30T17:18:30

This week we discuss the cyberattack with a difference on the city Johannesburg, how a hacker accessed company web servers via NordVPN and why the US nuclear weapons command finally ditched 8-inch ...

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S2 Ep14 - Samsung fingerprint fail, mystery black boxes and invisible Android apps from 2019-10-23T15:31:50

This week we discuss the screen protector which bypasses fingerprint readers on Samsung’s flagship smartphones, icon-hiding Android adware and a mystery black box. Host Anna Brading is joined by ...

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S2 Ep13.5 - All about social media: Growing up online, parent advice and social shaming from 2019-10-17T19:28:22

In light of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we're giving you a special splinter episode all about social media. Harry McMullin shares insights into what it was like growing up with social...

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S2 Ep13 - Weird Android zero-day and other tech fails from 2019-10-15T13:55:18

This week producer Alice Duckett steps in to host the show with Sophos experts Mark Stockley and Greg Iddon. They discuss Twitter's two-factor authentication faux pas, the risks of copy and pastin...

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S2 Ep12 - Dark Web, O.MG Cable spying and securing new laptops from 2019-10-10T14:47:21

This week host Anna Brading is joined by Sophos experts Mark Stockley and Greg Iddon. They discuss the bust of CyberBunker, a malicious lightning cable that's about to hit the mass market and how ...

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S2 Ep11 - Fleeceware, Chrome bug and the sextortion scam that won't die from 2019-10-03T21:09:19

This week host Anna Brading is joined by Sophos experts Mark Stockley and Greg Iddon. They discuss National Cyber Security Awareness Month, the latest chrome bug, 'Fleeceware' and why people are s...

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S2 Ep10 – Emotet’s back, mutant WannaCry and Insta scam from 2019-09-25T17:23:47

This week host Anna Brading is joined by Sophos experts Mark Stockley, Ben Jones and Peter Mackenzie. Ben explains why emotet is back, Peter shares his latest research into WannaCry and Mark shar...

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S2 Ep9 - Wikipedia down, Firefox VPN and NetCAT attacks from 2019-09-18T11:20:48

This week, Producer Alice Duckett steps in to host the show with Paul Ducklin, Mark Stockley and Greg Iddon. Greg discusses the most disruptive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack in recen...

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S2 Ep8 - Facebook Phone Leak, $5m Ransoms And DNS Controversy from 2019-09-11T15:33:59

This week, Producer Alice Duckett steps in to host the show with Paul Ducklin, Ben Jones and special guest Peter Mackenzie. Peter shares the latest ransomware trends, Ben discusses a Facebook data...

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S2 Ep7 - iPhones attacked, Twitter hack and set-top box Android botnet from 2019-09-05T08:38:16

This week on the Naked Security podcast host Anna Brading is joined by Mark Stockley, Paul Ducklin and Matt Boddy. They discuss iPhone zero days, android botnets and how the founder and CEO of Twi...

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S2 Ep6 - Instagram phishing, jailbreaking iPhones and social media hoaxes from 2019-08-28T14:51:29

This week on the Naked Security podcast host Anna Brading is joined by Mark Stockley and Paul Ducklin. They discuss sophisticated Instagram phishing attacks, jailbreaking iPhones and the latest s...

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S2 Ep5 - Phishing, eavesdropping voice assistants and quick fire questions from 2019-08-21T16:31:58

This week on the Naked Security podcast we discuss whether big tech companies are spying on you and the latest phishing scams. Do you have a question? Let us know and we’ll answer them next week. ...

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S2 Ep4 - iPhone holes, Android malware and romance scams from 2019-08-15T08:38:57

S2 Ep4 - iPhone holes, Android malware and romance scams by Sophos

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S2 Ep3 - Ransomware, surveillance and data theft from 2019-08-07T16:23:47

The Naked Security podcast tells you how to keep crooks out of your home network, discusses whether the government should be able to read our private messages or not, and digs into the crooks behin...

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S2 Ep2 - EvilGnome, leaky browser add ons and the latest on BlueKeep from 2019-08-01T15:21:35

This week we discuss EvilGnome, leaky browser add ons and the latest on BlueKeep. With Anna Brading, Paul Ducklin, Mark Stockley and Matt Boddy. What we talked about this week: https://nakedsecur...

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S2 Ep1 - FaceApp, logic bombs and youngsters' online safety from 2019-07-25T16:35:43

The Naked Security podcast - now in Series 2! This week we investigate whether FaceApp is as dangerous as they say, how to keep logic bombs out of your software, and how to help youngsters stay saf...

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S2 Launch - RDP Exposed from 2019-07-17T13:02:34

The Naked Security podcast is back - in our brand new studio! We present our latest research into RDP security and just how quickly crooks can find you online. Anna Brading talks to Matt Boddy, Be...

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Ep. 028 - SPEWS, Android security and scary Facebook messages from 2019-04-16T17:09:12

The Naked Security podcast tells you how to make your web signup forms safer, explains how Android phones can be used as security tokens, and looks into a Facebook "hidden message" that escaped int...

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Ep. 027 - Honeypots, GPS rollover and the MySpace data vortex from 2019-04-09T22:46:43

The Naked Security podcast reveals how long you can expect to go unnoticed online, explains why we still have applications where every bit matters, and comes up with a new vocabulary for "data loss...

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Ep. 026 - Android bloatware, hackable routers and website attacks from 2019-04-02T23:55:01

The Naked Security podcast looks into the annoying problem of bloatware on Android phones, explains a zero-day bug in a TP-Link router and how it turned into bad PR, and gives you advice on how to ...

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Ep. 025 - Business Email Compromise and IoT surprises from 2019-03-26T19:13:21

The Naked Security podcast explains how to avoid losing money to the cybercrime known as BEC, or Business Email Compromise, and gives you tips on what to look out for when you plug new devices into...

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Ep. 024 - Sextortion, malicious adverts and randomness explained from 2019-03-20T12:54:34

In this Naked Security podcast, we explain how to handle sextortion, look at techniques for getting rid of malvertising, and discuss the things that make randomness hard. With Anna Brading, Paul D...

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Ep. 023 - Facebook promises and Google Chrome patches from 2019-03-15T02:07:34

This week, the Naked Security Podcast tries to figure out where Mark Zuckerberg's new "Facebook Privacy Promise" is going, and digs into both the technical and community aspects of a recent Chrome ...

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Ep. 022 - Plaintext passwords, cryptocoin criminality and the Momo monstrosity from 2019-03-05T18:40:35

The Naked Security podcast explains why storing plaintext passwords is an unnecessary evil, investigates a cryptocurrency spat between a software maker and a disgruntled user, and tells you some ea...

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Ep. 021 - Leaked calls, a virus on the loose and passwords on display from 2019-02-26T18:39:39

The Naked Security podcast investigates a massive medical data blunder, tells you how NOT to do vulnerability disclosure, and asked whether password managers do more harm than good. With Anna Brad...

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Ep. 020 - Leaky containers, careless coders and risky USB cables from 2019-02-19T23:38:48

The Naked Security podcast explains the recent security hole in Linux products such as Docker and Kubernetes, ponders whether Apple's insistence on 2FA for developers will bring rogue apps under co...

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Ep. 019 - Android holes, iOS screengrabbing and USB poo from 2019-02-12T19:09:18

The Naked Security podcast pokes a stick into the latest critical security bugs in Android, investigates the dubious art of iOS screenshots you didn't take yourself, and marvels at the USB drive th...

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Ep. 018 - Home invasions, snoopy apps and Android versus iOS from 2019-02-05T16:57:36

The Naked Security podcast looks at who was at fault in a network home invasion, investigates how both Google and Facebook fell foul of Apple's developer rules, and answers the vital question, "Whi...

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Ep. 017 - DNS hijacking, a weird breach and a cybersecurity confession from 2019-01-30T15:40:53

The Naked Security Podcast digs into a US Emergency Directive to stop government sites getting hijacked, examines a data breach with a difference, and hears a cybersecurity expert's confession of h...

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Ep. 016 - Email fraud, Android insecurity, Collection #1 and the 10 Year Challenge from 2019-01-22T18:23:50

The Naked Security podcast looks at high-value email crime, Google's latest attempt to clean up the Play Store, how you can buy a billion email addresses for just $45, and the conspiracy theories t...

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Ep. 015 - USB anti-hacking, bypassing 2FA and government insecurity from 2019-01-17T18:08:18

Naked Security looks at whether the latest USB hardware proposals will be used for security or for anti-piracy, investigates an open-source toolkit for bypassing 2FA, and explains how the US govern...

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Ep. 014 - Rickrolls, Acrobat and zombie hands from 2019-01-12T00:18:41

The Naked Security Podcast investigates the ethics of remote rickrolling, whether Acrobat is the new Flash, and how to fool biometrics with a zombie hand. With Anna Brading. Paul Ducklin, Mark Stoc...

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Ep. 013 - Breaches, Facebook and ransomware reinvented from 2018-12-21T17:45:37

The Naked Security Podcast rings out 2018 with a look at the big issues of the past year. With Anna Brading, Paul Ducklin and Matthew Boddy. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/huge-marriott-breach h...

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Ep. 012 - WordPress worms, Android fraud and Flash fails from 2018-12-13T12:24:18

In this Naked Security podcast, Anna Brading, Paul Ducklin and Mark Stockley confront the latest cybersecurity threats affecting WordPress, Android and Flash. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/mass...

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Ep. 011 - Marriott, Kubernetes and PewDiePie from 2018-12-06T15:27:50

On the Naked Security podcast this week: Marriott's huge and scary data breach, a bug in software management software could be a data thief's goldmine, and a self-righteous "hacker" prints out an a...

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Ep. 010 - Big breach, Creep-O-Meter and Black Friday from 2018-11-21T00:06:02

Ep. 010 - Big breach, Creep-O-Meter and Black Friday by Sophos

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Ep. 009 - Competitive hacking, threat report and crazy tweets! from 2018-11-16T21:50:40

In the Naked Security Podcast this week: hacking phones at Pwn2Own, the brand new SophosLabs Threat report, and squeezing Shakespeare into one tweet. With Anna Brading, Paul Ducklin and Mark Stockl...

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Ep. 008 - PortSmash, iPhones and cryptocoins from 2018-11-08T16:43:49

Hyperthreading considered harmful, how to avoid lock screen hacks, and what happens when cryptocurrency exchanges implode. With Naked Security Editor-in-Chief Anna Brading, Paul Ducklin, Mark Stock...

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Ep. 007 - Cryptojacking, coding and cyberawareness from 2018-10-25T23:17:26

Naked Security editor-in-chief Anna Brading is back in the presenter's seat, talking to Mark Stockley, Matthew Boddy and Paul Ducklin about the lessons we can learn from the latest cybersecurity news.

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Ep. 006 - WhatsApp, rogue scripts and sextortion from 2018-10-19T12:12:21

This week, Naked Security editor-in-chief Anna Brading talks to Sophos experts Paul Ducklin, Mark Stockley and Matthew Boddy about: a security flaw in the WhatsApp app, a shopping site compromise u...

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Ep. 005 - Facebook, breaches and phones from 2018-10-02T15:36:58

Naked Security experts Paul Ducklin, Matt Boddy and Mark Stockley teach you what to do about the recent Facebook breach, and discuss how to make mobile security more than just "some annoying thing ...

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Mobile security – how to have your cake and eat it from 2018-07-23T11:29:29

Join us as we talk to Sophos security expert Matt Boddy about how you can embrace the "bring your own" world of 21st century IT while staying safe and secure at the same time.

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Privacy - can you have too much of a good thing? from 2018-07-19T22:41:59

Should we have more privacy to protect us from cybercriminals, or less privacy so those selfsame cybercrooks can't hide so easily? Join Sophos security experts Paul Ducklin and James Burchell for...

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Trends in malware - ransomware, cryptojacking, what next? from 2018-07-19T10:12:57

When it comes to learning about the latest trends in malware, there's no one we'd rather talk to than SophosLabs Principal Researcher Fraser Howard. Join us as Fraser explains how to "know your ene...

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Don't take fright - get web security right from 2018-07-18T10:04:44

No website is too small, and no website too big, that it is out of the reach of hacktivists, online vandals, bad actors and unreconstructed cybercrooks. So web security is vital - but how to get it...

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Welcome to the wonderful world of GDPR! Where next? from 2018-07-17T11:04:06

GDPR enforcement started in May 2018. Where next? Join Sophos Naked Security's Paul Ducklin and Vincent Vanbiervliet, Product Manager of Data Protection at Sophos, as they talk about how to turn s...

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"WannaCrypt" ransomware scam widely spammed out from 2018-06-22T20:13:57

A cybersecurity scare about ransomware called "WannaCrypt" has been widely spammed out. This one, fortunately, is a scam - there isn't any malware - but the attack that the crooks describe could, i...

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Chet Chat 271 - June 14, 2018 from 2018-06-14T19:09:10

This week's podcast finds Chet and John both enjoying some well deserved time in their respective homes. Topics include an overview of InfoSec Europe and BSides London, the dangers of not providing...

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Chet Chat 270 - June 7, 2018 from 2018-06-08T04:52:12

Chester and Ben talk about the week's security news including the latest Flash and Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerabilities, insecure toys being yanked from major retailers, Naked Security's awar...

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FBI issues bulletin about "VPNFilter" malware from 2018-05-26T10:42:57

The FBI just issued a VPNFilter malware warning saying, "Reboot your routers now!" But why? And will it help? Kimberly Truong and Paul Ducklin of Sophos investigate.

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Ep. 004 - Email EFAIL, Linux bugs and sniffer dogs from 2018-05-18T09:56:24

Charlotte Williams from Naked Security talks to Sophos experts Matt Boddy and Paul Ducklin about the EFAIL in email, a gift-horse bug in Red Hat Linux, and what happens when sniffer dogs join your ...

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Chet Chat 269 - May 18, 2018 from 2018-05-18T08:46:14

This week's podcast finds Chet hosting from Hong Kong with guest Ben Verschaeren. Topics covered include the eFail disclosure, Adobe Reader vulns, Chili's credit card theft, LocationSmart leaking c...

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Chet Chat 268 - May 10, 2018 from 2018-05-11T08:03:35

Chester Wisniewski is joined by Greg Iddon from London in this week's Chet Chat. They discuss the latest Drupal attacks, patch urgency, the IC3 report on cybercrime and the cost of cryptomining.

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Ep. 003 - Malware, patching and Facebook privacy from 2018-04-17T21:44:05

Charlotte Williams from the award-winning computer security website Naked Security talks to Sophos experts Matt Boddy and Paul Ducklin about old-school malware, how to judge Patch Tuesday, and what...

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Ep. 002 - Passwords, cracking and HTTPS from 2018-03-06T01:12:31

Paul Ducklin from the award-winning computer security website Naked Security talks to Sophos experts Matt Boddy and Fraser Howard about password cracking and HTTPS. (Music: purple-planet.com and th...

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Ep. 001 - Mining + hijacking = cryptojacking from 2018-02-14T13:39:33

Paul Ducklin from the award-winning computer security website Naked Security talks to SophosLabs researcher Fraser Howard about a growing trend in cybercrime: cryptojacking, where the crooks mine c...

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Chet Chat 267 - December 7, 2017 from 2017-12-20T05:24:41

John Shier interviews Claudio Stahnke from Canalys Channel Forums about the view of security from the channel partner's perspective. John and Claudio touch on GDPR, security as a service, IoT and m...

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Chet Chat 266 - December 2, 2017 from 2017-12-03T09:26

This week's Chet Chat comes to you live from BSides Perth in West Australia. Chester and John share their thoughts on Coinbase forking over data to the IRS, Apple's non-fixy-fix for OS X, FBI not n...

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Chet Chat 265 - November 3, 2017 from 2017-11-07T22:32:03

This week's Chet Chat is live from the Tom's Guide offices in New York City after the O'reilly Security event. Chester has a chat with journalist Paul Wagenseil about the O'reilly event, another lo...

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Chet Chat 264 - October 20, 2017 from 2017-10-22T23:00:20

This week's Chet Chat was recorded live from BSides Calgary with Michael Argast from Sky Northern. Chester and Michael shared their opinions on the KRACK vulnerabilities, Infineon RSA crypto bug, M...

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Chet Chat 263 - October 6, 2017 from 2017-10-10T05:50:53

This week's Chet Chat comes to you from Madrid, Spain thanks to it being the host city for Virus Bulletin 2017. Chester interviews the Editor for VB, Martijn Grooten, about the conference while mis...

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Chet Chat DEF CON 25 - July 30, 2017 from 2017-08-11T17:24:51

John Shier hosts the Chet Chat this week with special guest Ben Verschaeren from Sophos Australia. John and Ben share their insights on this year's BSides Las Vegas, Black Hat and DEF CON conferenc...

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Ransomware revisited – is it really the worst sort of malware? from 2017-06-24T00:29:04

Is ransomware really the worst sort of cyberattack you can experience? Or is it more of a “worst among equals,” given all the other sorts of malware out there too? Sophos security expert James Bur...

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Botnets – the malware that makes you part of the problem from 2017-06-22T23:44:05

Botnet malware quietly downloads instructions from cybercriminals on what to do next, such as grabbing passwords, stealing files, sending spam, and delivering malware. Learn from Fraser Howard, o...

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Surveillance - when does security turn into snooping? from 2017-06-22T00:34:12

Here's the third episode of our June 2017 "Sophos Security SOS" series - a week of topical podcasts, originally recorded and broadcast live. Sophos cybersecurity specialist Luke Groves talks to P...

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Phishing – how this troublesome crime is evolving from 2017-06-20T21:57:42

Here's the second episode of our June 2017 "Sophos Security SOS" series - a week of topical podcasts, originally recorded and broadcast live. In this episode, Paul Ducklin interviews Sophos malwa...

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GDPR – Burden or opportunity? Cost or value? from 2017-06-20T00:35:56

This is the first in our June 2017 "Sophos Security SOS" series - a week of topical podcasts, originally recorded and broadcast live. In this episode, Paul Ducklin interviews Sophos expert John Sha...

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Chet Chat 262 - June 7, 2017 from 2017-06-08T00:30:21

In this week's Chet Chat, Sophos researchers Chester Wisniewski and John Shier share their opinions on the leaked NSA election hacking docs, Judy Android ad fraud, the OneLogin breach, Crisis autho...

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Chet Chat 261 - May 26, 2017 from 2017-05-26T14:52:31

The Chet Chat is back! Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for their keen commentary on the latest security news. In this episode: WannaCry revisited, a wormable hole in Samba, ...

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Chet Chat 260 - Mar 17, 2017 from 2017-03-17T16:37:16

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for the latest episode of our regular security podcast. The duo turn the latest news into purposeful advice as they discuss swastikas on Twi...

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BSides Vancouver 2017 - Interview with Yubico about multifactor authentication from 2017-03-16T05:27:58

Live from BSides Vancouver 2017 Chester Wisniewski of Sophos interviews Derek Hanson from Yubico about U2F, FIDO and the future of mutlifactor authentication.

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Chet Chat 259 - Mar 8, 2017 from 2017-03-09T13:33:29

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for the latest edition of our regular security podcast. In this episode: trouble at the SHA-1 mill; the (not so) imaginary world of Mac rans...

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Chet Chat 258 - Feb 16, 2017 from 2017-02-22T00:00:39

Chester Wisniewski and John Shier share their thoughts from the floor of this year's RSA Conference in San Francisco.

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RSA 2017 - Day 3 - Roving report from 2017-02-16T22:26:36

Join Paul Ducklin and Bill Brenner for our third and final roving report from RSA Conference 2017.

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RSA 2017 - Day 2 - Roving report from 2017-02-15T19:11:24

Bill Brenner of Sophos is at the RSA Conference 2017 in San Franscisco. He talks to Paul Ducklin about the lessons learned so far...

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RSA 2017 - Day 1 - Roving report from 2017-02-14T18:54:14

Bill Brenner from Sophos is our "roving reporter" at the RSA 2017 conference in San Francisco. Paul Ducklin gets Bill's take on the hot topics from the first day of the event.

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Chet Chat 257 - Jan 27, 2017 from 2017-01-29T01:42:35

In this week's Chet Chat, Paul and Chester discuss the vulnerabilities reported in Cisco's WebEx plugin, the ease of breaking into Android phones which use the lock pattern, a recent security audit...

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Chet Chat 256 - Jan 6, 2017 from 2017-01-08T18:49:44

Chester Wisniewski is back from his December vacation, and this week he's talking to fellow Sophos expert Paul Ducklin about the world of computer security. It's not all bad news following the man...

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Chet Chat 255 - Nov 18, 2016 from 2016-11-18T21:49:55

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for the latest episode of our security podcast. This week: the BlackNurse "attack", booby-trapped network cards, a Linux bug to make you sm...

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Chet Chat 254 - Oct 7, 2016 from 2016-10-07T21:40:55

Chet and John bring you this week's Chet Chat live from the Virus Bulletin conference in Denver, Colorado USA. They summarize some of their favourite talks covering IoT vulnerabilities, malvertisin...

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Chet Chat 253 - Sep 30, 2016 from 2016-10-01T01:08:30

Chester and John pack a lot into a busy week attending a conference and bringing you this week's security news. They discuss the recent mass DDoS attack on Brian Krebs, more horrifically vulnerable...

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Chet Chat 252 - Sep 23, 2016 from 2016-09-23T05:37:03

In this week's Chet Chat, John Shier joins Chet to discuss the Yahoo! breach, the US FTC's new website for identity theft victims, how to break into an iPhone, credit card best practices and how th...

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Chet Chat 251 - Aug 31, 2016 from 2016-09-04T23:16:08

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for the latest episode of our entertaining and informative computer security podcast. From a breach in Opera's cloud to handy back-to-schoo...

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Chet Chat 250 - Aug 11, 2016 from 2016-08-15T08:34

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for our latest security podcast. In this week's episode: new tricks in ransomware, DARPA's grand bug-finding challenge, carder crook busted...

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Chet Chat 249 - Aug 6, 2016 from 2016-08-06T23:43:17

Chet and John record live from DEF CON and summarize all the great content they experienced at this year's Black Hat, DEF CON and BSides Las Vegas hacking conferences. Topics covered this week incl...

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Chet Chat 248 - July 29, 2016 from 2016-07-31T20:44:14

John Shier joins Chester Wisniewski this week to complete the last podcast before the Black Hat and DEF CON conferences in Las Vegas next week. They try to explain the scoop behind the LastPass vul...

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Chet Chat 247 - July 21, 2016 from 2016-07-24T23:34:01

Join Sophos experts John Shier and Paul Ducklin for the latest episode of our weekly security podcast. This time: how to get paid for using two-factor authentication; the weirdly-named "HTTPoxy" b...

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Chet Chat 246 - July 14, 2016 from 2016-07-15T17:34:14

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for the latest episode of our computer security podcast. This week: Pokémon GO, "boneidleware", Patch Tuesday, Mac malware, free (yes!) tool...

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Chet Chat 245 - July 8, 2016 from 2016-07-08T03:47:19

Sophos Security researchers Chester Wisniewski and John Shier dive into what's behind this week's security news. In this episode they discuss the latest ransomware, Zepto, safe usage of the dark we...

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Chet Chat 244 - July 1, 2016 from 2016-07-04T22:13:11

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for the latest episode of our regular security podcast. This week: just in time for Canada Day, some Google Play malware with a Canuckian th...

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Chet Chat 243 - June 24, 2016 from 2016-06-27T17:42:09

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for our latest security podcast. In this episode: hardening Tor, the ransomware with a Pirate Name, and not one but two stories about Apple ...

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Chet Chat 242 - June 18, 2016 from 2016-06-19T22:25:55

Join Sophos security experts John Shier and Paul Ducklin for the latest episode of our security podcast. This time: hardware random numbers; the death (we hope) of the Angler exploit kit; the Spam...

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Chet Chat 241 - May 21, 2016 from 2016-05-22T22:10:31

Join Sophos experts John Shier and Paul Ducklin for the latest episode of our security podcast. This week: TeslaCrypt gives up its master key; iOS researcher fights with Apple; iPad Pro users comp...

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Chet Chat 240 - May 13, 2016 from 2016-05-15T22:35:13

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for the latest episode of our regular Chet Chat podcast. This week: Friday 13th viruses remembered; US regulators ask tough questions about ...

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Chet Chat 239 - Apr 28, 2016 from 2016-04-29T09:27:55

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for another entertaining and well-informed episode of our computer security poccast. This week: the test server that wasn't; the text file t...

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Interview with Mark Loman on CryptoGuard from 2016-04-23T18:25:39

Chester Wisniewski and John Shier interview Mark Loman about the growing threat of Ransomware and the tool his team developed, CryptoGuard.

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Chet Chat 238 - Mar 31, 2016 from 2016-04-03T22:51:45

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for the latest episode of our computer security podcast. This week, Chester reports from BSides Austin, where he's been presenting a talk on...

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Chet Chat 237 - Mar 24, 2016 from 2016-03-28T09:08:04

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for the latest edition of our weekly computer security podcast. In this episode: Tor and backdoors, an overdue kernel patch for Android, App...

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Chet Chat 236 - Mar 18, 2016 from 2016-03-21T00:14:04

Join Sophos experts John Shier and Mario Winter, who recorded this episode live at the CeBIT computer show in Hanover, Germany. From ransomware to the collection of personal data, Mario talks to J...

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Chet Chat 235 - Mar 10, 2016 from 2016-03-14T00:47:15

Join Sophos Senior Technologists Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for the latest episode of our weekly security podcast. Our experts take an amusing but very informative look at the latest secu...

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Chet Chat 234 - Mar 3. 2016 from 2016-03-07T21:24:15

Chester and John podcast from San Francisco at the RSA Conference USA 2016 in front of a live studio audience this week. Find out about what you may have missed at this year's conference and a brie...

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Chet Chat 233 - Feb 25, 2016 from 2016-02-28T00:14:31

Join Sophos experts John Shier and Paul Ducklin for the latest episode of our award-winning security podcast. This week: why we think there should be #nobackdoors; how "mousejacking" works; the se...

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Chet Chat 232 - Feb 18, 2016 from 2016-02-20T16:58:52

This week's Chet Chat comes to you live from HackCon XI in Oslo, Norway. Kristian Samstad from Infinigate is Chester's guest and they discuss the talks at the conference, SMS phishing, Locky ransom...

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Chet Chat 231 - Feb 12, 2016 from 2016-02-15T23:14:51

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for the latest episode of our computer security podcast. This week: President Obama endorses 2FA for everyone; the IRS and 2FA that wasn't; ...

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Chet Chat 230 - Feb 4, 2016 from 2016-02-07T00:32:45

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for our weekly security podcast. In this episode: the bug-fixing bot from MIT; no more Java in your browser; why Tor is a technology for all...

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Chet Chat 229 - Jan 27, 2016 from 2016-02-01T00:30:14

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for the latest episode of our computer security podcast. This week, our duo turn their wit and expertise on: PrivacyCon and the Internet of ...

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Chet Chat 228 - Jan 22, 2016 from 2016-01-22T17:24:48

Join Sophos security experts John Shier and Paul Ducklin for the latest episode of our regular security podcast. This week: the "crypto debate", malicious web ads, exploit kits and ransomware, a t...

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Chet Chat 227 - Jan 13, 2016 from 2016-01-14T02:37:21

Michael Argast joined Chet this week to talk a bit about the retirement of IE 8, IE 9 and IE 10, a bit of IoT security and lots of crypto chat.

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Chet Chat 226 - Jan 6, 2016 from 2016-01-06T23:43:54

In our first episode of 2016 Chester and John explore the week's news including the Ukrainian power hack, Android fixes, insecure security systems, jailbreaking the PS4 and Sophos Home.

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Chet Chat 225 - Dec 31, 2015 from 2015-12-31T13:23

In this episode, we look back over the past year to tell you what we think we've learned, and what we can do differently to improve our collective security and privacy in 2016. If you're expecting...

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Chet Chat 224 - Dec 1, 2015 from 2015-12-04T23:11:30

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and John Shier for the latest episode in our weekly security podcast. This week: daily December tips on Naked Security, a big breach at VTech, insecurity-by ...

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Chet Chat 223 - Nov 25, 2015 from 2015-11-26T09:36:40

Join Sophos security experts John Shier and Paul Ducklin for their witty but insightful review of the week's security news. In this episode: email security, malicious barcodes, whether to trust a ...

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Chet Chat 222 - Nov 19, 2015 from 2015-11-20T12:29:57

Join Sophos security experts John Shier and Paul Ducklin as they dissect the week's computer security news with their usual mix of insight and wit. In this episode: we reach our "double nelson"; b...

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Chet Chat 221 - Nov 12, 2015 from 2015-11-12T12:29:49

Join Sophos experts John Shier and Paul Ducklin for the latest episode of our quarter-hour computer security podcast. This week, our amusing-yet-serious experts take on ransomware, Linux security,...

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Chet Chat 220 - Nov 4, 2015 from 2015-11-04T12:28:08

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for the latest episode of our weekly computer security podcast. From data breaches to encryption denial, and from the latest #sophospuzzle t...

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Chet Chat 219 - Oct 21, 2015 from 2015-10-21T10:36:42

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin as they dissect the latest computer security news in their witty but informative way. This week: encrypting everything, clown computing (yes...

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Chet Chat 218 - Oct 14, 2015 from 2015-10-14T12:29:51

Join Sophos security experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for our latest weekly security podcast. In this episode: encryption backdoors, Patch Tuesday, weak ciphers, leaked crypto keys, the...

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Chet Chat 217 - Oct 7, 2015 from 2015-10-07T11:19:42

Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin of Sophos get together for the latest episode of our computer security podcast. This week, our two experts look into anti-hacker insurance, social engineering, ...

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Chet Chat 216.5 - Oct 2, 2015 from 2015-10-02T22:32:49

Paul Ducklin crosses live to Sophos security expert Chester Wisniewski, who is attending this year's Virus Bulletin conference in the Czech Republic. Find out what the world's top threat protectio...

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Chet Chat 216 - Sep 30, 2015 from 2015-09-30T11:23:57

Join Sophos experts John Shier and Paul Ducklin for the latest episode of our security podcast. This week: Shark attacks and selfies, selfies and you, yet more lock screen insecurity, and why mal...

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Chet Chat 215 - Sep 23, 2015 from 2015-09-25T23:23:02

Join Sophos experts John Shier and Paul Ducklin for the latest episode of our weekly computer security podcast. Listen and learn from the latest stories including: the release of iOS 9, malware i...

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Chet Chat 214 - Sep 16, 2015 from 2015-09-18T23:35:16

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for the latest episode of our weekly security podcast. Informative, educational and amusing, we spend a tight quarter-hour helping you turn ...

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Chet Chat 213 - Sep 9, 2015 from 2015-09-09T12:00:01

Join Sophos experts John Shier and Paul Ducklin for the latest episode of our security podcast - a fun and fascinating quarter-hour of "news you can use". This week: the cop who stole $800k in Bit...

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Chet Chat 212 - Sep 2, 2015 from 2015-09-04T12:13:31

Chester Wisniewski is back from Down Under to resume our podcast series, the Chet Chat. In this episode, Chester talks to Paul Ducklin about: Ashley Madison, salting-and-hashing, the FTC, the futu...

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Chet Chat 211 - Aug 12, 2015 from 2015-08-12T22:53:17

Join Sophos security experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin as they tackle the latest security news in our weekly podcast. This time: a password-stealing zero-day in Firefox; a "grab root pri...

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Chet Chat 210.5 - Aug 7, 2015 from 2015-08-07T08:07:32

Sophos expert Chester Wisnieski is in Las Vegas this week, at the Black Hat 2015 conference. Paul Ducklin caught up with Chester on the Sophos booth to get his impressions. Oh, and Duck asked Chet...

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Chet Chat 210 - Aug 5, 2015 from 2015-08-05T22:15:59

Join Sophos experts John Shier and Paul Ducklin for the latest episode of our award-winning security podcast. This week: Windows 10 updating, Tor's trustworthiness, Xen bugfix, BIND server problem...

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Chet Chat 209 - July 29, 2015 from 2015-07-30T23:13:14

Join security experts Chester Wisniewski and John Shier as they discuss and explain the week's computer security news. This week Chet and John talk about Pakistan banning Blackberry servers, Linux...

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Chet Chat 208 - July 23, 2015 from 2015-07-24T11:33

Join Sophos experts John Shier and Paul Ducklin in the latest episode of our thought-provoking security podcast. In this week's quarter-hour: cybercrime (and punishment), crimeware, the infamous A...

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Chet Chat 207 - July 17, 2015 from 2015-07-18T22:03:03

Join Sophos security experts John Shier and Paul Ducklin for the latest episode of the Chet Chat. Enjoy a tight quarter-hour podcast where we turn the latest security news into advice you can use ...

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Chet Chat 206 - July 7, 2015 from 2015-07-09T13:26:05

Join Sophos security experts John Shier and Paul Ducklin in the latest episode of our weekly podcast. From Windows 10 Wi-Fi Sense to the Mr Robot TV show, here's 15 minutes of news turned into edu...

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Sophos Techknow - Malware on Linux: When Penguins Attack from 2015-07-03T10:25:35

Sophos security expert Chester Wisniewski took a week's worth of known-bad website data from SophosLabs and worked backwards to investigate some important questions: Which platform hosts the most m...

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Chet Chat 205 - July 1, 2015 from 2015-07-02T11:38:55

Join Sophos experts John Shier and Paul Ducklin for the latest episode of our weekly security podcast, the Chet Chat. News you can use!

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Chet Chat 204 - June 24, 2015 from 2015-06-25T12:39:34

Join Sophos security experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin in the latest episode of our Chet Chat security podcast. This week: US Navy keeps XP alive, Apple gets CORED, Android starts bug bo...

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Chet Chat 203 - June 18, 2015 from 2015-06-19T10:30:51

Join Sophos security experts John Shier and Paul Ducklin as they dig into the latest security news in our weekly "Chet Chat" podcast. In this episode: the LastPass breach, Facebook and its new-loo...

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Chet Chat 202 - June 12, 2015 from 2015-06-12T22:21:22

Join Sophos security experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin in this week's episode of our security podcast. Apple, Microsoft, patching, hacking - and 49 arrests in a Europol action against ba...

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Infosec 2015: "What concerns you the most in computer security?" from 2015-06-04T22:18:37

We took to the exhibition floor at Infosec 2015 to ask ten visitors: "What concerns you the most in computer security?" We got 11 answers...and here they are. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/in...

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Chet Chat 201 - June 3, 2015 from 2015-06-02T23:36:56

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for another episode of our weekly computer security podcast. This week, they're both at the Infosec Europe conference in London, England...j...

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Chet Chat 200 - May 28, 2015 from 2015-05-28T11:38:35

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin as they dissect the latest security news in our weekly podcast. It's entertaining and educational - news you can use.

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Chet Chat 199 - May 20, 2015 from 2015-05-20T21:51:32

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for the latest episode of our weekly security podcast. A quarter-hour of "news you can use" - entertaining to listen to and educational to h...

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Chet Chat 198 - May 14, 2015 from 2015-05-15T09:31:14

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for the latest episode of our no-nonsense computer security podcast.

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Chet Chat 197 - May 6, 2015 from 2015-05-06T22:05:17

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for the latest episode of our weekly computer security podcast. From the future, where Microsoft's Update Tuesday is no more, to 15 years in...

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Chet Chat 196 - Apr 30, 2015 from 2015-04-30T21:46:37

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for the latest episode of the weekly Chet Chat podcast. From bugs to busts, here's the computer security news you can use.

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Chet Chat 195.5 - Apr 22, 2015 from 2015-04-23T11:37:55

Sophos experts Paul Ducklin and John Shier take a quick look at what's happening at the RSA Conference 2015. From "joined up security" to the suggestion that Google proclaimed the end of malware o...

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Chet Chat 195 - Apr 21, 2015 from 2015-04-21T22:13:19

This week, Chester Wisniewski is at RSA 2015 in San Francisco. He talks to fellow Sophos security expert Paul Ducklin straight from Sophos's booth at the trade show.

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Chet Chat 194 - Apr 17, 2015 from 2015-04-18T07:57:01

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for the latest episode of our weekly security podcast. From the very latest Update Tuesday to how we get rid of 10-year-old security holes, ...

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Chet Chat 193 - Apr 8, 2015 from 2015-04-08T11:17:11

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin as they dissect the latest computer security stories in their inimitable style. Turn news into advice with the Sophos Security Chet Chat!

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Chet Chat 192 - Mar 31, 2015 from 2015-04-01T11:33:21

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin as they dissect the latest news in our weekly computer security podcast. From the G20 leaders' "passport leak" to World Backup Day, we turn...

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Chet Chat 191 - Mar 25, 2015 from 2015-03-25T10:40

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for the latest episode of our computer security podcast. This week's Chet Chat comes to you from an al fresco café in downtown Ljubljana, as...

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Chet Chat 190 - Mar 18, 2015 from 2015-03-17T22:56:01

Join Sophos security experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for the latest episode of our weekly podcast. This week's edition comes to you straight from the Sophos exhibition booth at the CeB...

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Chet Chat 189 - Mar 11, 2015 from 2015-03-12T21:47:50

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for our weekly security podcast. In this episode: FREAK, Update Tuesday, hypervisor escape, spammers, hackers, foistware...and the Chet Chat...

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Chet Chat 188 - Mar 4, 2015 from 2015-03-05T06:52:09

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin as they dissect the week's security stories. Listen to the latest episode of the Chet Chat, our weekly educate-and-entertain podcast for any...

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Chet Chat 187 - Feb 25, 2015 from 2015-02-26T12:24:41

Sophos expert John Shier sits in for regular presenter Chester Wisniewski in this episode. John and Paul Ducklin dissect the latest security issues, which were dominated this week by some thorny m...

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Chet Chat 186 - Feb 18, 2015 from 2015-02-18T12:23:04

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for the latest "Chet Chat" podcast. A quarter-hour of focused and well-informed discussion to help you make the best of the week's security ...

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Chet Chat 185 - Feb 12, 2015 from 2015-02-13T10:46:23

Our weekly "Chet Chat" podcast is carefully prepared to fit into a quarter-hour, so it is clear and concise as well as being witty and amusing. Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Duc...

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Chet Chat 184 - Feb 4, 2015 from 2015-02-05T07:57:40

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin in our weekly podcast that dissects the latest security news so that it's educational and entertaining at the same time. In this episode: Fl...

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Chet Chat 183 - Jan 28, 2015 from 2015-01-28T22:42:59

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin in our weekly podcast as they turn their insight on the latest security news. From Apple's latest OS X and iOS updates to Data Privacy Day -...

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Chet Chat 182 - Jan 21, 2015 from 2015-01-21T22:42:09

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin as they dig into the latest news in our weekly security podcast. In a crisp and serious yet amusing quarter-hour", "they'll take you all the...

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Chet Chat 181 - Jan 15, 2015 from 2015-01-15T08:35:42

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin as they take on the week's news in our regular security podcast. In this epsiode: the new-look Update Tuesday; the "bug reports at 15 paces...

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Chet Chat 180 - Jan 7, 2015 from 2015-01-07T21:31:47

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for the first Chet Chat security podcast of 2015. In this episode: zero-day politics, leaky security features, Bitcoin news, and a shout out...

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Chet Chat 179 - Dec 31, 2014 from 2014-12-31T21:36:15

Regular host Chester Wisniewski is taking a well-earned vacation, so Sophos security experts Paul Ducklin and Mark Stockley bring you this episode of the Chet Chat. This week: phishing, spamming, ...

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Chet Chet 178 - Dec 24, 2014 from 2014-12-24T11:57:57

Chester Wisnieski and John Shier are both on vacation this week, so regular guest Paul Ducklin takes the presenter's side of the microphone to talk to Sophos Naked Security's Mark Stockley. Topics...

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Chet Chat 177 - Dec 17, 2014 from 2014-12-18T20:38:54

Join Sophos experts John Shier and Paul Ducklin as they dig into the latest security news in our weekly podcast. In this episode: Sony (twice!), Android, holiday scams, online safety and looking a...

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Chet Chat 176 - Dec 4, 2014 from 2014-12-06T07:30:07

Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin dissect the week's security news and turn it into advice you can use. In this episode of the Chet Chat: Sony's breach, a spyware bust, Android Lo...

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Chet Chat 175 - Nov 26, 2014 from 2014-11-27T10:21

Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin take on the latest security news in our weekly podcast. In this episode: Cyber Monday and online scams; the true cost of data breaches; the good ...

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Sophos Techknow - Dealing with Ransomware from 2014-11-25T12:40:37

Sophos security experts Paul Ducklin and Chester Wisniewski tell you what you need to know about the what, the why and the how of ransomware. What is ransomware? Why has it become such a problem? ...

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Chet Chat 174 - Nov 19, 2014 from 2014-11-19T17:56:23

Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin dissect the latest security news in this episode of the weekly Chet Chat podcast. From a carder ring that got busted to a spamming system that ra...

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Chet Chat 173 - Nov 12, 2014 from 2014-11-13T11:48:55

Sophos security experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin aim their insights at the latest security news in our weekly Chet Chat podcast. Recorded on Patch Tuesday, which was also Remembrance Da...

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Chet Chat 172 - Nov 5, 2014 from 2014-11-05T12:41:21

Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin turn the week's security news into actionable advice. In this episode: the Sophos SPAMPIONSHIP; understanding bots and zombies; keeping your web ...

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Chet Chat 171 - Oct 29, 2014 from 2014-10-29T14:03:28

Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin look at the week's security news and turn it into entertaining and informative advice. In this episode: Sandworm, Death by Powerpoint, password s...

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Chet Chat 170 - Oct 21, 2014 from 2014-10-23T09:03:31

Sophos expert Chester Wisniewski digs into the week's security news with John Shier and Paul Ducklin. In this episode: the POODLE problem; the effect of data breaches on consumer confidence; South...

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Chet Chat 169 - Oct 15, 2014 from 2014-10-17T10:18:08

With Chester Wisniewski on the road, Sophos security expert John Shier steps up to the microphone to discuss the week's security news with Paul Ducklin. In this episode: October's Patch Tuesday, t...

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Chet Chat 168 - Oct 8, 2014 from 2014-10-08T11:11:21

Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin take apart the latest computer security stories to turn them into news you can use. From BadUSB to breaches to Bugzilla, this week's podcast look...

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Chet Chat 167 - Oct 2, 2014 from 2014-10-03T12:42:09

Join Sophos security experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin as they dissect the week's news. Shellshock leads the list, of course, but Snapchat, cybersecurity awareness and the iPhone 6 all g...

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Chet Chat 166.5 - Sep 26, 2014 from 2014-10-01T23:00:24

Sophos Security expert Chester Wisniewski was at the Virus Bulletin 2014 conference in Seattle. In this special edition of the Chet Chat, Paul Ducklin puts Chet on the other side of the mic to fin...

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Chet Chat 166 - Sep 25, 2014 from 2014-09-26T22:04:42

Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin entertain, inform and explain in their regular computer security podcast. In this week's episode: Home Depot and security, Apple and iOS 8, eBay ...

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Chet Chat 165 - Sep 17, 2014 from 2014-09-18T10:10:34

Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin get to grips with the big computer security issues of the past week. In this episode: the Android "Browser" privacy-busting bug, and what to do a...

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Chet Chat 164 - Sep 10, 2014 from 2014-09-11T19:08:07

Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin dig into the week's computer security news. In this episode of the Chet Chat: Patch Tuesday (and what it teaches us about security holes); Apple ...

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Chet Chat 163 - Sep 3, 2014 from 2014-09-04T20:38:15

Sophos security experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin take you to Mars to explain how flash memory works (and why you can't erase it very reliably). Also in this episode: Wi-fi security, da...

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Chet Chat 162 - Aug 29, 2014 from 2014-08-29T10:35:07

Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin take a special look at a conference Chester just attended in Queensland, Australia. Sophos has supported this event, run by the Queensland Police, for many year...

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Chet Chat 161 - Aug 20, 2014 from 2014-08-21T09:06:55

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for this week's Chet Chat podcast, and turn computer security news into computer security advice. In this episode: Microsoft's blue screen o...

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Chet Chat 160 - Aug 13, 2014 from 2014-08-13T21:26:48

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin in the weekly Chet Chat security podcast. In this episode: Patch Tuesday; combining exploits; an Android virus attack; Foursquare opts out o...

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Chet Chat 159.5 - Aug 9, 2014 from 2014-08-09T09:05:10

Listen to this "Black Hat Special" episode of the Chet Chat. Paul Ducklin puts Chester Wisniewski on the other side of the microphone to tell us about the *real* security lessons from Black Hat US...

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Chet Chat 159 - Aug 6, 2014 from 2014-08-06T15:56:31

Sophos expert Chester Wisniewski takes time out of the Nevada heat to delve into the latest security news with Paul Ducklin. (Chet's in fabulous Las Vegas this week, attending the B-Sides, Black Ha...

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Chet Chat 158 - July 30, 2014 from 2014-07-30T10:36:14

Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin of Sophos dissect the week's security news to see what we can learn from other people's mistakes. ("Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it...

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Chet Chat 157 - July 23, 2014 from 2014-07-23T21:53:55

Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin look for lessons in the latest computer security news. In this week's podcast: how to make SoHo routers more secure; how to decide if you can tru...

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Sophos Techknow - Firewalls Demystified from 2014-07-20T22:34:05

Join Sophos experts Paul Ducklin and Chester Wisniewski as they take a clear but entertaining trip through the components you'll find in a modern network firewall, helping you to understand the wha...

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Chet Chat 156 - July 16, 2014 from 2014-07-16T09:19

Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin are back with this week's Chet Chat security podcast, turning plain old news into advice you can use. In this episode: Warbiking in Manhattan; bu...

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Chet Chat 155 - July 10, 2014 from 2014-07-10T22:36:40

In this episode, Sophos experts John Shier and Paul Ducklin tackle the week's interesting security stories. John keeps Duck to 60 seconds (OK, 75") in a TL;DR version of Patch Tuesday, and then th...

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Chet Chat 154 - July 3, 2014 from 2014-07-04T10:50:04

Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for the latest episode of the weekly Chet Chat podcast. In this episode: Were does your country sit on the fraud list, and what can you do a...

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Chet Chat 153 - June 25, 2014 from 2014-06-25T19:54:27

Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin present Sophos's regular weekly security podcast, the "Chet Chat." This week the enthusiatic experts look at: yet more in the TrueCrypt saga; the Towelroot soft...

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Chet Chat 152 - June 19, 2014 from 2014-06-19T19:39:09

Sophos security experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin turn their attention on the week's security news. As usual, they extract plenty of useful lessons during their insightful dissection of ...

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Chet Chat 151 - June 11, 2014 from 2014-06-12T10:08:48

Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin dig into the latest security news for lessons we can all learn. In this episode of our weekly quarter-hour podcast: Patch Tuesday, and why simply counting vulne...

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Chet Chat 150 - June 4, 2014 from 2014-06-04T22:25:42

Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin take on the latest security news with their usual mix of enthusiasm, expertise and entertainment. This week, they dig into the bafflement of the disappearing Tr...

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TrueCrypt - What happened and what comes next from 2014-06-03T07:09:09

John Shier interviews security expert Chester Wisniewski about the sudden demise of the freeware TrueCrypt project. They discuss what happened and what users should consider when moving on to green...

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Chet Chat 149 - May 28, 2014 from 2014-05-28T19:39:23

Chester Wisnieski and Paul Ducklin dig into the important security stories of the past week, and pull out some lessons we can all learn. Take an entertaining and informative journey through the ca...

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Chet Chat 148 - May 21, 2014 from 2014-05-21T04:21:41

The Chet Chat comes to you this week from Hanoi, Vietnam with special guest Sean Richmond from Sophos Australia. Chet and Sean continue the tradition of working through the details to paint you a ...

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Chet Chat 147 - May 14, 2014 from 2014-05-15T08:50:58

Road trips again prove no barrier to the Chet Chat, with Chester Wisniewski calling home to the studio from the exotic wilderness of the Air Canada lounge at Toronto Airport. As usual, Chester an...

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Chet Chat 146 - May 7, 2014 from 2014-05-07T14:45:07

Sophos security experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin look at what we can learn from the week's security news. Target, Dropbox, Microsoft, the mysterious Webdriver Torso and Sophos Naked Sec...

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Chet Chat 145 - Apr 29, 2014 from 2014-04-29T21:32:14

A zero-day in IE to contend with, followed by a zero-day in Flash; two approaches to fixing OpenSSL after the Heartbleed bug; how to get a free pass to the Infosec Europe 2014 event in London; and ...

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Chet Chat 144 - Apr 23, 2014 from 2014-04-24T10:56:03

Computer security experts Chester Wisnieski and Paul Ducklin of Sophos turn their attention on the week's news. Mixing wit, insight and advice, the duo look at: the risk from iOS malware, the stat...

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Chet Chat 143 - Apr 16, 2014 from 2014-04-16T22:08:28

From the latest Heartbleed revelations to various successes by law enforcement, Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin take you through the big computer security stories of the week. B...

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Chet Chat 142 - Apr 10, 2014 from 2014-04-10T22:26:45

Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin help you to understand - and explain what you can do about - the big ticket security news items of the past week. The epic "Heartbleed" bug in Op...

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Chet Chat 141 - Apr 2, 2014 from 2014-04-02T11:23:59

Chet and Duck get together once again to look at the week's news with their usual blend of humor, insight and informed intensity. There's Adobe's password breach revisited (in poetic form, no less...

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Security in Verse - Apr 1, 2014 from 2014-04-01T00:01:01

On 01 April 2014, we decided not to do an April Fool's but to have some April Fun instead! So we turned three recent computer security stories into poems. OK, rhyming verse. Doggerel, in fact. H...

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Chet Chat 140 - Mar 26, 2014 from 2014-03-26T19:16:14

How bad is the latest Microsoft Word 0-day? Does OS X really need patching less often than Windows? What does Gmail's move to HTTPS-only really mean? And if WhatsApp has privacy coded into its DNA,...

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Chet Chat 139 - Mar 20, 2014 from 2014-03-20T09:28:36

Is a browser less secure if more people like to hack it? Is it OK to ignore alerts simply because you get too many? Do you back yourself to spot every single phish? And just how smart is the Google...

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Chet Chat 138 - Mar 13, 2014 from 2014-03-13T13:22:29

Chet and Duck turn the week's news into useful lessons once again. There's Patch Tuesday, the impending end of XP, Advanced Persistent Threatitis, and some astonishing statistics about just how ma...

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Chet Chat 137 - Mar 5, 2014 from 2014-03-05T21:19:12

What about support for OS X Lion and Mountain Lion? Are they, or aren't they? Why can't Apple just say? Could the addition of a rootkit to the Gameover malware be a blessing in disguise? If you wan...

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Chet Chat 136.5 - Feb 27, 2014 from 2014-02-28T19:03:08

Paul Ducklin hooks up "live at RSA" with Naked Security writers Chester Wisniewski and John Shier for a Conference Special podcast. This half-length Chet Chat packs in one-quarter humour, five-eig...

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Chet Chat 136 - Feb 25, 2014 from 2014-02-27T23:13:56

Chester ducks out of booth duties at the RSA 2014 conference in San Francisco to bring you this week's Chet Chat. From Apple's SSL bug to Adobe's second-in-a-month emergency Flash update, Chet and...

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Chet Chat 135 - Feb 19, 2014 from 2014-02-19T12:23:42

Chet and Duck again turn the week's security news into advice you can use and share with your friends. What happened to Flappy Bird? Why was Talking Angela so talked about? Is internet access at t...

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Chet Chat 134 - Feb 11, 2014 from 2014-02-12T11:18:41

Chet and Duck cast their expert eyes over the week's security news. The pair bring some infectious enthusiam to Sophos's recently-announced acquisition of Cyberoam; they look at Patch Tuesday plus...

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Chet Chat 133 - Feb 4, 2014 from 2014-02-04T22:14:02

Chet and Duck review the week's news in their informed and entertainingly serious style, discussing the prizes on offer at this year's PWN2OWN competition, talking about a new twist in Android malw...

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Chet Chat 132 - Jan 28, 2014 from 2014-01-28T21:16:43

This week's Chet Chat starts out with credit card breaches, as yet more big PII leaks hit the news; then covers the issue of whether you really need good passwords everywhere; before going into an ...

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Chet Chat 131 - Jan 22, 2014 from 2014-01-22T12:35:43

Chet and Duck turn a week's worth of lost data, malware attacks, misleading apologies and shabby security into actions you can take to steer a safer course inside your own organisation. From digit...

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Wikileaks - the lessons behind the drama from 2014-01-21T12:38:14

In early 2014, a contractor at credit-scoring company Korea Credit Bureau was arrested for loading up a USB key with personally identifiable information for some 20,000,000 people, about 40% of Sou...

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Chet Chat 130 - Jan 14, 2014 from 2014-01-14T11:24:13

Chester Wisniweski and Paul Ducklin dig into the lessons we can learn from the security issues of the past week. What's the best way to deal with bots and botnets? If you use your financial instit...

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Sophos Techknow - Botnets and zombie malware explained from 2014-01-09T11:17:08

Botnets, short for "robot networks", are more than just malware: they're the money making machinery of modern cybercriminals. Paul Ducklin and James Wyke help you to understand the What, How and W...

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Chet Chat 129 - Jan 7, 2014 from 2014-01-07T12:20:57

Chet and Duck look at the security stories that made the headlines over New Year 2013/2014 - from the OpenSSL "hypervisor hack" that wasn't, to the Skype Twitter breach that shouldn't have happened...

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Chet Chat 128 - Dec 31, 2013 from 2014-01-01T13:30:01

From Cryptolocker, through PRISM, Target and Adobe, to tainted randomness: Chet and Duck review the security lessons of 2013, and advise how to make 2014 safer and more secure!

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Chet Chat 127 - Dec 24, 2013 from 2013-12-24T14:37:27

Chet and Duck analyse the latest security news to help you keep ahead of the bad guys. Find out about the recent and massive Target breach; get to grips with Microsoft's and Apple's latest updates;...

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Sophos Security Threat Report 2014 from 2013-12-10T06:45:55

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Chet Chat 126 - Dec 2, 2013 from 2013-12-02T11:06:20

Chet and Duck tell you what you need to know about the latest security stories. Turn bad news into good with "what you can do better" advice on the back of an XP zero-day, a spate of Bitcoin "bank ...

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Chet Chat 125 - Nov 26, 2013 from 2013-11-26T11:57:09

Chet and Duck dig into the good and bad of the week's computer security news, from the amusing "Happy Hour Virus", through Twitter's implementation of "forward secrecy" to discourage government-typ...

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Avoiding fake support calls from 2013-11-22T12:11:54

Avoiding fake support calls by Sophos

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Chet Chat 124 - Nov 20, 2013 from 2013-11-21T11:35:36

Chester and John Shier take time out of the IANS Information Security Forum in Atlanta, Georgia, to talk about the key issues of the past week. There's the US police department that paid the Crypto...

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Sophos Techknow - The End of XP from 2013-11-14T12:22:37

Paul Ducklin and Chester Wisniewski investigate the what, the why and the how of dealing with the impending end of support for Windows XP in 2014. Don't worry: even if you have computers that you ...

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Chet Chat 123 - Nov 13, 2013 from 2013-11-13T09:32:39

Chet and Duck deal with: November's Patch Tuesday, whether or not hacking attacks are getting worse, whether Anonymous defacements count as "hacking", an esoteric bug in OpenSSH, and the lessons to...

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Chet Chat 122 - Nov 7, 2013 from 2013-11-07T11:13:57

Chet and Duck discuss the latest Microsoft zero-day, the latest code verification flaw in Android (the third bug of the same sort in the same part of the code!), and whether version numbers are bec...

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Chet Chat 121 - Oct 28, 2013 from 2013-10-28T11:18:41

Chet and Duck discuss WordPress autoupdating; OS X's giant new wave, Mavericks; iCloud and 2FA; smartphone tracking by retailers; and security in pacemakers and other medical devices.

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Chet Chat 120 - Oct 22, 2013 from 2013-10-27T02:34:26

Chet and Duck discuss Oracle's monster Java patch, Joel's backdoor in D-Link routers, Cryptolocker and WhatsApp's demonstration of why you shouldn't roll your own crypto.

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 119.5 - October 16, 2013 from 2013-10-27T02:33:25

Chet interviews Robert Slade a well known anti-virus expert for National Cyber Security Awareness Month #NCSAM. Rob shares his thoughts on how average folks can stay safer online.

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 119 - October 7, 2013 from 2013-10-27T02:32:16

Chet and Duck are back on the regular schedule and talked about the 10th anniversary of Patch Tuesday, Adobe going "open source" and the alleged demise of the Dread Pirate Roberts.

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 118.99 - October 4, 2013 from 2013-10-27T02:31:07

In the last third of Sophos Security Chet Chat 118 Chet interviews Vanja Svajcer from SophosLabs about his presentation on potentially unwanted Android apps. Many users are being inundated with adv...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 118.66 - October 3, 2013 from 2013-10-27T02:29:05

As a reminder to everyone that it is National Cyber Security Awareness Month #NCSAM, Chet and Duck remind our listeners to do the three things to help themselves and others stay safer online.

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 118.33 - October 2, 2013 from 2013-10-27T02:28:02

Chester interviews James Wyke of SophosLabs UK about his presentation on the Zero Access Trojan at this year's Virus Bulletin conference in Berlin, Germany.

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 117 - September 24, 2013 from 2013-10-27T02:26:57

This week Chet and Duck talk about Apple, Apple, iOS, Apple, OS X, lots of patches, browser trust and Facebook privacy.

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Sophos Techknow - Understanding vulnerabilities from 2013-10-27T02:25:33

Make sense of vulnerability jargon by listening to this 15 minute podcast... With recent updates from Microsoft (three times), Adobe, Oracle, Apple and Firefox, the timing could scarcely be better.

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 116 - September 10, 2013 from 2013-10-27T02:23:42

In this episode of SSCC Chet and Duck talk about Google Authenticator temporarily forgetting its seeds, Apple bugs, Facebook data probes and an increase in WordPress phishing.

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 115 - August 27, 2013 from 2013-10-27T02:18:21

Chet and Duck discuss XP "as a giant 0-day", password practices in light of LastPass's recent vulnerability and the next generation of the HTTP protocol.

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 114 - August 13, 2013 from 2013-10-27T02:17:16

Chet welcomes series regular Paul 'Duck' Ducklin to discuss the latest security news: Android random number flaw implicated in Bitcoin thefts, OpenX ad servers "pre-compromised", Lavabit and Silent...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 113 - July 19, 2013 from 2013-10-27T02:15:55

Chet and Duck talk about the stolen "master Android keys", Tumblr security flaws, Club Nintendo password woes and the new Sophos puzzle for BlackHat 2013.

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 112 - July 3, 2013 from 2013-10-27T02:14:31

In this podcast Chester and Duck tackle 'Keyjacking', obfuscated data breach notification letters and Apple's iOS WPA2 passphrases being a little too easy.

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 111 - June 17, 2013 from 2013-10-27T02:12:48

Security experts Chester 'Chet' Wisniewski and Paul 'Duck' Ducklin discuss the latest security news: the leak behind PRISM, Swedish against Google's cloud, and BlackBerry ships Flash on its latest ...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 110 - June 4, 2013 from 2013-10-27T02:06

Chet welcomes series regular Paul 'Duck' Ducklin to discuss the latest security news: Microsoft reading Skype messages, the IP Commission Report, small business cybersecurity, and AusCERT 2013 #Sop...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 109 - May 20, 2013 from 2013-10-27T02:04:42

Chet welcomes series regular Paul 'Duck' Ducklin to discuss the latest security news: Name.com breach (and others), laptop theft, casher crews, LulzSec busts, Patch Tuesday.

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Sophos interview with "We are Anonymous" author Parmy Olson from 2013-10-27T02:03:13

In this podcast Chester interviews Parmy Olson author of "We are Anonymous" about her thoughts on LulzSec, their sentencing and the Anonymous movement. Parmy also shares some of her thoughts on Fir...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 108 - May 8, 2013 from 2013-10-27T02:01:48

Chester calls home from Interop in Las Vegas to record the latest episode of the Sophos Security Chet Chat. Duck explains a WWII steganography technique and introduces a contest. Chester and Duck t...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 107 - April 23, 2013 from 2013-10-27T01:56:27

Chet welcomes series regular Paul 'Duck' Ducklin to discuss the latest: Boston marathon bombing scams, Hostgator's hack, Safari's Java safety update, pwning planes with an Android app, and Facebook...

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Sophos Techknow - Two-factor authentication from 2013-10-27T01:29:16

To some of us, two-factor authentication (2FA) is a welcome aspect of online security; to others, token or SMS-based login codes are just extra online hassle we'd rather do without. Duck and Chet h...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 106 - April 9, 2013 from 2013-10-27T01:27:41

This week's Chet Chat has Duck and Chet discuss the DOD BYOD policy, malware posing as multi-function printers, WordPress adopting 2FA and two new browser rendering engines competing on both perfor...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 105 - March 22, 2013 from 2013-10-27T01:26:04

Chet and Duck discuss debuggy HP printer firmware, ad-supported phone apps, scans of the whole internet, Apple introducing 2 step authentication, link morphing and Internet Explorer 11.

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 104.5 - March 22, 2013 from 2013-10-27T01:21:28

Chet inteviews the writer and director of hacker film "Code 2600" and Austin BSides organizers/consultants Michael Gough and Ian Robertson. We also introduce the new kickstarter "Hackers in Uganda".

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 104 - March 12, 2013 from 2013-10-27T01:18:48

Guest Paul Ducklin and host Chester Wisniewski talk about RSA Conference 2013, CanSecWest 2013, Vancouver's first Security BSides, PWN2OWN, the cPanel break-in and cloud security.

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 103 - February 24, 2013 from 2013-10-27T01:03:30

This week Chet and Duck discuss Mandiant's APT1 report, the alleged watering hole attack against iOS developers and Twitter hacks.

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 102 - February 12, 2013 from 2013-10-27T00:59:51

Chet and Duck tackle the weeks news including UPnP, the Balmital botnet take down, Flash patches for Windows and OS X and the Lucky Thirteen SSL/TLS weakness.

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What is the Anatomy of an Attack event? from 2013-10-27T00:58:28

This podcast outlines what to expect if you attend one of our Anatomy of an Attack seminars. Chester Wisniewski and John Shier explain the content presented and what attendees should expect to take...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 101 - January 30, 2013 from 2013-10-27T00:55:01

Chester talks to Paul Ducklin about HP Printers on the open internet, Java, precision versus accuracy and PWN2OWN and Pwnium 3 contests.

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 100 - December 10, 2012 from 2013-10-27T00:48:31

In this 100th episode of the Chet Chat, Duck and Chester discuss the bizarre story of John McAfee, OS X malware, Switzerland losing intelligence data, NASA laptops and Romanian carders.

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 99 - October 31, 2012 from 2013-10-27T00:44:05

Michael Argast rejoined Chet this Halloween to catch up on the week's news including new DMCA exceptions, Hurricane Sandy scams, Yahoo! ignoring do not track, Barnes and Noble credit cards skimming...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 98 - September 17, 2012 from 2013-10-27T00:42:42

This week Paul Ducklin is in the guest seat as he and Chester discuss Patch Tuesday, weak RSA certificates, losing $250,000 worth of bitcoins, Do Not Track, Blackhole exploit kit and the Nitol botn...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 97 - August 10, 2012 from 2013-10-27T00:41:05

Peter Szabo from SophosLabs joins Chet to chat about 4 more talks from this year's Black Hat and DEF CON conferences. Topics include MSCHAPv2, Frack, smart meters and hacking public transit.

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Sophos Techknow - All about Java from 2013-10-27T00:39:53

Java brings with it some significant risks, yet for many people, it's "just there on my computer." In this episode, Duck and Chet tell you All about Java, and help you to make an informed decision ...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 96 - August 3, 2012 from 2013-10-27T00:38:54

Peter Szabo, a senior threat researcher with SophosLabs, joins Chet this week to to share what they learned at this year's Black Hat and DEF CON conferences. They discuss NFC, a file disinfection f...

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Sophos Techknow - Understanding SSL from 2013-10-27T00:33:32

To many of us, SSL isn't much more than "the padlock in the browser." But how does it work? Who verifies SSL certificates? How do we know we can trust them? What happens if we realize we can't? Duc...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 95 - July 19, 2012 from 2013-10-27T00:32:09

Paul Ducklin joins Chet this week to discuss the quarterly Oracle patches, the theft of a USB stick belonging to Elections Ontario, the bypass of in-app purchases from the App Store and how WiFi ha...

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Sophos TechKnow - Patching: should you lead, follow, or get out of the way? from 2013-10-27T00:30:33

Do you really need seven committee meetings and a 90 day waiting period before you update your computers with the latest patches? Duck and Chet take on the challenges of security patches in this ep...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 94 - July 13, 2012 from 2013-10-27T00:29:08

Paul Ducklin joins Chet once again to discuss the latest security news. This week's topics include DNS Changer, Patch Tuesday, Find and Call, San Diego's fireworks fiasco and password breaches.

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 93 - June 21, 2012 from 2013-10-27T00:27:55

Michael Argast joins Chet once again to discuss Flame, LinkedIn, warrantless wiretapping, Patch Tuesday, border patrol spying and Microsoft's BlueHat prize.

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 92 - June 5, 2012 from 2013-10-27T00:20:42

Michael Argast from Telus joined Chet once again to discuss the week's news. Topics covered include Flame malware, Do Not Track, TACK, Conficker and Sophos Mobile Security for Android.

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 91 - May 18, 2012 from 2013-10-27T00:19:37

This week's Chet Chat returns to our usual news format this week with guest Gary Korhonen (@hundredaire). Gary and Chet discuss the Utah data breach, Facebook hacker's prison term, OS X Leopard's F...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 90 - May 10, 2012 from 2013-10-27T00:17:47

This week's Chet Chat comes to you live from the show floor at Interop 2012. John Shier and Chet Wisniewski have some fun and share highlights from the expo hall.

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 89 - April 26, 2012 from 2013-10-27T00:16:40

Chester Wisniewski and Chris Pace walk around the exhibition hall at this year's InfoSec Europe and share their insights on trends and some fantastic giveaways some vendors thought might grab your ...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 88 - April 17, 2012 from 2013-10-27T00:12:37

Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin chat about the security issues surrounding Apple's new iTunes security, knowledge-based authentication, Mac malware and Google's fine from the FCC.

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 87 - April 5, 2012 from 2013-10-27T00:00:32

David Schwartzberg is this week's guest on the Chet Chat to talk about the data breach at Global Payments, a new Mac botnet and Flash Player updating. David also explained the new AES-NI encryption...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 86 - March 31, 2012 from 2013-10-26T23:59:06

Paul Ducklin is this week's guest on the Chet Chat. Chet and Paul discuss an attempted DDoS of an election in Canada, the knock-on effects of the DNS Changer malware, Facebook's new Data Usage Poli...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 85 - March 22, 2012 from 2013-10-26T23:57:46

In this week's episode John Shier joins Chet to discuss the review of electronic device usage on airplanes by the FAA, the arrests of the Carberp malware authors, the worm danger from the MS12-020 ...

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Sophos Techknow - Busting Password Myths from 2013-10-26T23:55:56

In this new podcast series Paul Ducklin and Chester Wisniewski take a more in-depth look at a single topic, exploring the ins and outs to help listeners understand complex topics. In this episode -...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 84.66 - March 2, 2012 from 2013-10-26T23:52:54

Chet and Duck say goodbye to San Francisco, thank their fellow bloggers for Naked Security winning the Best Corporate Security Blog, discuss their favorite stand and talk a bit about how "big data"...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 84.33 - February 28, 2012 from 2013-10-26T23:48:03

RSA special Chet Chat sharing Chester's and Duck's first impressions of the first day of the RSA 2012 conference in San Francisco.

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 84 - February 23, 2012 from 2013-10-26T23:46:43

Paul Ducklin hosts this week's Chet Chat with the tables turned... Chet is the guest. They discussed the recent Google cookie-gate incident, House Intelligence Committee advice on using laptops whi...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 83 - February 16, 2012 from 2013-10-26T23:45:19

This week's Chet Chat finds Paul Ducklin and Chester Wisniewski discussing the vulnerabilities patched this Tuesday in Microsoft, Adobe and Oracle products, mobile phone application privacy issues ...

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A time-based analysis of Rich Text Format manipulations from 2013-10-26T23:43:43

Paul Baccas is interviewed by Chester Wisniewski on his paper A time-based analysis of Rich Text Format manipulations. Paul explains how the focus is often on zero-day exploits even though flaws li...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 82 - February 3, 2012 from 2013-10-26T23:42:14

This week, Paul Ducklin joins Chet to talk about the Sophos Security Threat Report 2012, the new anti-phishing proposal known as DMARC and mobile phone numbers being leaked through HTTP headers at O2.

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 81 - January 23, 2012 from 2013-10-26T23:39:07

Chet sits down with Michael Kaiser, Executive Director at the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) to discuss Data Privacy Day. Michael explains the origin of Data Privacy Day, some of the activ...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 80 - January 18, 2012 from 2013-10-26T23:38:05

In this week's podcast, Vanja Svajcer joins Chet to talk about the mobile security landscape. Topics discussed include mobile malware, theft, application markets and advice on securing your smartph...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 79 - January 9, 2012 from 2013-10-26T23:36:48

Paul Ducklin joins Chet for the first Chet Chat of 2012. This week they discuss the privacy implications of smart meters, the recent research showing how WiFi routers are vulnerable due to an easy ...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 78 - December 20, 2011 from 2013-10-26T23:35:36

Gary Korhonen joins Chet for this week's podcast discussing the automatic upgrade of Internet Explorer, Android Market malware, Carrier IQ and an infection that shut down a hospital in Georgia.

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 77 - November 24, 2011 from 2013-10-26T23:34:19

Paul Ducklin joins Chet to talk about this week's news including giving your friends and family a hand at Thanksgiving, Android security, SCADA hacking and Google's WiFi mapping opt-out scheme.

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 76 - October 21, 2011 from 2013-10-26T23:01:11

Chester interviews Michael Kaiser from the National Cyber Security Alliance and Rob Strayer from the Bipartisan Policy Center about National Cyber Security Awareness Month and our upcoming State of...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 75 - October 14, 2011 from 2013-10-26T22:59:46

John Shier joined Chet this week as they discussed the death of UNIX and C co-creator Dennis Ritchie, the Virus Bulletin 2011 conference, Apple's release of iOS 5 and OS X 10.7.2, Microsoft Patch T...

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Interview with Brad Arkin from Adobe about Flash Player 11 and Reader security from 2013-10-26T22:58:22

Brad Arkin joined Chester Wisniewski to discuss the launch of Flash Player 11 and the improvements in security and privacy in this new version. Brad also shares some insights into the success of Re...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 74 - September 30, 2011 from 2013-10-26T22:57:05

This week Paul Ducklin joins Chester Wisniewski to discuss cooperating to fight hi-tech crime, the Kelihos botnet shutdown, the US government proposal to have ISPs notify infected customers and the...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 73 - September 18, 2011 from 2013-10-26T22:54:18

Paul Ducklin joined Chet this week from a real life denial of service situation at the Sydney, Australia airport. Topics discussed include Patch Tuesday, UBS losing $3bn, SpyEye on Android, Twit.tv...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 72 - September 8, 2011 from 2013-10-26T22:43:41

Mike Wood a Senior Threat Researcher with SophosLabs is Chet's guest. They discuss the upcoming Patch Tuesday, the new Firesheep and go in depth on the recent troubles at certificate authority Digi...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 71 - August 21, 2011 from 2013-10-26T22:42:36

Chester Wisniewski welcomes back Paul Ducklin to summarize the week's security news. This week they talk about ATM skimming and recent related research, Juicejacking, the latest Anonymous attacks a...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 70 - August 11, 2011 from 2013-10-26T22:39:58

Vanja Svajcer joins Chester Wisniewski to discuss the papers and demos they attended at last week's Black Hat and DEFCON conferences. Topics covered include Android patch cycles, Fixing the SSL CA ...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 69 - July 28, 2011 from 2013-10-26T22:37:50

David Schwartzberg joined Chet for this week's Chet Chat. David is a specialist in data protection and shared his thoughts on the new File Vault 2 feature in Mac OS X Lion. Dave and Chet also discu...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 68 - July 22, 2011 from 2013-10-26T22:35:22

In this week's Chet Chat Kris Braun SophosLabs Threat Operations Manager joins Chet to discuss the week's news. Topics include OS X Lion, Oracle patches, Zeus for Android and Secunia's mid-year thr...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 67 - July 15, 2011 from 2013-10-26T05:05:02

Richard Baldry is Chet's guest on this week's Chet Chat. Chet and Richard talk about Google blocking the .co.cc domain, Patch Tuesday, Apple's JailBreakMe.com patch and the "phone hacking" and malw...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 66 - July 7, 2011 from 2013-10-26T04:37:04

In this week's Chet Chat Paul Ducklin is Chet's guest as they cover the latest security news. Topics covered include a paper on the Popureb rootkit, the vulnerabilities in Apple's iOS exploited by ...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 65 - June 23, 2011 from 2013-10-26T04:32:07

Paul Ducklin joins Chester this week for Chet Chat episode 65. Chet and Paul discuss the impact of the recent FBI arrests of scareware purveyors, the arrest of Ryan Cleary and LulzSec's latest stun...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 64 - June 15, 2011 from 2013-10-26T01:37:41

In SSCC episode 64 Chet's guest is the North American Threat Operations Manager for SophosLabs. They discuss the LulzSec DDoS last week, the attack against the IMF, Nissan's Leaf leaking location d...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 63 - June 9, 2011 from 2013-10-26T01:34:58

In this week's Chet Chat Rich Baldry joins Chet to discuss the future of Mac OS X security. They also discuss the week's news including RSA, Sony, software patches and Facebook's introduction of fa...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 62 - June 2, 2011 from 2013-10-26T01:24:40

Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin discuss this week's news including the latest attacks against Sony, Apple's new malware problem and cloud security.

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 61 - May 27, 2011 from 2013-10-26T01:23:36

Chester Wisniewski sits down with one of the most experienced Sophos technical support experts to discuss best practices and how we can use the tools we have to do a better job defending against mo...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 60 - May 19, 2011 from 2013-10-26T01:20:32

Chester Wisniewski and Ben Jupp discuss the hype and the truth behind the recent Mac rogue security attacks and discuss Obama's proposed changes to RICO, Square Enix and Sony.

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 59 - May 6, 2011 from 2013-10-26T01:14:11

Chet interviews the Manager of SophosLabs US Richard Wang this week. They discuss Sony, bin Laden, LastPass, the upcoming Patch Tuesday and the latest Mac malware scams.

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 58 - April 30, 2011 from 2013-10-26T01:12:40

Sophos Security Chet Chat 58 features Paul Ducklin and Chester Wisniewski discussing the week's most pertinent security topics. This week: the Coreflood take-down; password loss at DSLReports; Sony...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 57 - April 23, 2011 from 2013-10-26T01:01:52

Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin, Head of Technology, Asia Pacific discuss the open letter Naked Security published to Facebook and all the latest from Infosec Europe 2011.

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 56 - April 12, 2011 from 2013-10-26T01:00:43

Chester Wisniewski and Michael Argast talk about this week's Patch Tuesday, the Albert Gonzalez appeal and the state of Texas data breach.

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 55 - April 6, 2011 from 2013-10-26T00:59:41

Tony Ross joins Chester Wisniewski this week to discuss the latest news on SSL Certificate Authorities ignoring signing guidelines. They also talk about the RSA breach, email best practices, Chrome...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 54 - March 31, 2011 from 2013-10-26T00:57:13

Michael Argast joins Chet for a HUGE Chet Chat this week. They primarily cover Facebook's new SSL/anti-likejacking, Comodo SSL hack, Firefox 4 and the SQL injection attacks against MySQL and Sun/Or...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 53 - March 21, 2011 from 2013-10-26T00:55:26

Chester Wisniewski and guest Michael Argast discuss this week's security news. They give advice to users of RSA's SecureID tokens post-breach, talk about RIM's advice to disable JavaScript on Black...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 52 - March 15, 2011 from 2013-10-26T00:50:31

Chester Wisniewski and Michael Argast talk about the latest security news related to Twitter's use of HTTPS, Congress killing net neutrality, car hacking, tsunami scams,the Adobe Reader zero day an...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 51 - March 7, 2011 from 2013-10-26T00:48:41

Michael Argast talks with Chet about Apple's new test release of OS X, codenamed Lion. They also chat about Microsoft begging people to stop using IE6, providing social media access to your employe...

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 50 - February 28, 2011 from 2013-10-26T00:46:31

Tony Ross joins Chet this week to discuss erasing SSDs, a new banking Trojan and HIPAA - how to protect medical records

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 49 - February 21, 2011 from 2013-10-26T00:45:24

Michael Argast and Chet talk about Westboro Church vs. Anonymous, the Canadian Government getting hacked, the latest MS and Java vulnerabilities and more

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 48 - February 16, 2011 from 2013-10-26T00:43:05

This week Chet Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin discuss the new Android Trojan Horse and RSA Conference 2011 happenings.

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 47 - February 7, 2011 from 2013-10-25T22:41:37

Michael Argast and Chester Wisniewski discuss the weeks security news, including RBS WorldPay hacker pleads guilty, HBGary hack, Patch Tuesday and CanSecWest's Pwn2Own contest.

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Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 46 - January 31, 2011 from 2013-10-25T22:40:15

Chester Wisniewski and Michael Argast discuss the internet situation in Egypt, Anonymous and the arrests by the FBI, the new Microsoft zero day MHTML vulnerability and the standard set of Facebook ...

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