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Miss Manners confronts copy-and-paste. WinRAR patches bugs. When Airplane mode isn't. How many cryptographers to change a light bulb? https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/using-winrar-be-sure-to-patch https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/snakes-in-airplane-mode https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/smart-light-bulbs-could-give-away-your-password With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin. Original music by Edith Mudge (https://www.edithmudge.com) Email questions and suggestions to: tips@sophos.com

Navajo Code Talkers Day. Beta bogosities. Skimming shenanigans. Hooligan hosting. A cybercrime conundrum. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/fbi-warns-about-scams-that-lure-you-in-as-a-mobile-beta-tester https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/grab-hold-and-give-it-a-wiggle-atm-card-skimming https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/crimeware-server-used-by-netwalker-ransomware-seized With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin. Original music by Edith Mudge (https://www.edithmudge.com) Email questions and suggestions to: tips@sophos.com

An amazing Art Deco computer. Yet more performance-versus-security trouble. Is sound alone enough to sniff out your password? A rap song (of sorts) with a cybersecurity connection. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2023/08/08/serious-security-why-learning-to-touch-type-could-protect-you-from-audio-snooping/ https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2023/08/04/crocodile-of-wall-street-and-her-husband-plead-guilty-to-giant-sized-cryptocrimes/ With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin. Original music by Edith Mudge (https://www.edithmudge.com) Email questions and...

Firefox fixes flaws. The exciting vulnerability that you don't need to be afraid of. Breach reporting rules with lots of leeway. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/firefox-fixes-a-flurry-of-flaws https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/performance-and-security-clash-yet-again https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/sec-demands-four-day-disclosure-limit With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin. Original music by Edith Mudge (https://www.edithmudge.com) Email questions and suggestions to: tips@sophos.com

Apple patches two zero-days, one for a second time. How a 30-year-old cryptosystem got cracked. All your secret are belong to Zenbleed. Remembering those dodgy PC/Mac ads. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/apple-ships-that-recent-rapid-response https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/hacking-police-radios-30-year-old-crypto-flaws https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/zenbleed-how-the-quest-for-cpu-performance With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin. Original music by Edith Mudge (https://www.edithmudge.com) Email questions and...

Why your Mac's calendar app says it's JUL 17. One patch, one line, one file. Careful with that {axe,file}, Eugene. Storm season for Microsoft. When typos make you sing for joy. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/zimbra-collaboration-suite-warning https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/google-virus-total-leaks-list https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/microsoft-hit-by-storm-season With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin. Original music by Edith...

Remembering the slide rule. What you need to know about Patch Tuesday. Supercookie surveillance shenanigans. When bugs arrive in pairs. Apple's rapid patch that needed a rapid patch. User-Agent considered harmful. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/microsoft-patches-four-zero-days-finally-takes-action https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/serious-security-rowhammer-returns https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/ghostscript-bug-could-allow-rogue-documents-to-run-system https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/urgent-apple-fixes-critical-zero-day-hole https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/apple-silently-pulls-its-latest-zero-day-update With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin. Original music by Edith...

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 teams working together, with cybersecurity correctness as a guiding...

PONG for one player. Apple pushes out anti-spyware patch. Beware bad passwords on Linux servers. "Twitter hacker" gets 5 years. When mobile phones and dental hygiene collide. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/apple-patch-fixes-zero-day-kernel-hole https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/beware-bad-passwords-as-attackers-co-opt-linux-servers https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/uk-hacker-busted-in-spain-gets-5-years https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/aussie-pm-says-shut-down-your-phone-every-24-hours With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin. Original music by Edith Mudge (https://www.edithmudge.com) Got questions/suggestions/stories to...

Gee Whizz BASIC (probably). Think you know ransomware? Megaupload, 11 years on. ASUS warns of critical router bugs. MOVEit mayhem Part III. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/the-ransomware-documentary-brand-new-video-series https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/megaupload-duo-will-go-to-prison https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/asus-warns-router-customers-patch-now https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/moveit-mayhem-3 With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin. Original music by Edith Mudge (https://www.edithmudge.com) Got questions/suggestions/stories to share? Email: tips@sophos.com Twitter: NakedSecurity (https://twitter.com/nakedsecurity)

Magnetic core memory. Patch Tuesday and SketchUp shenanigans. More MOVEit mitigations. Mt. Gox back in the news. Gozi malware criminal imprisoned at last. Are password rules like running through rain? https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/patch-tuesday-fixes-4-critical-rce-bugs https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/more-moveit-mitigations-new-patches https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/history-revisited-us-doj-unseals-mt-gox-cybercrime-charges https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/gozi-banking-malware-it-chief-finally-jailed https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/thoughts-on-scheduled-password-changes With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin. Original music by Edith Mudge...

Calling all modems. KeePass gets an update. MOVEit gets pwned. Chromium zero-day. The backdoor that wasn't really. WPBT explained. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/serious-security-that-keepass-master-password-crack https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/moveit-zero-day-exploit-used-by-data-breach-gangs https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/chrome-zero-day-this-exploit-is-in-the-wild https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/researchers-claim-windows-backdoor With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin. Original music by Edith Mudge (https://www.edithmudge.com) Got questions/suggestions/stories to share? Email: tips@sophos.com Twitter: NakedSecurity (https://twitter.com/nakedsecurity)

How to say "GIF". A Blackmailer-in-the-Middle attack. Knitting your own crypto. KeyPass master password shenanigans. Binge listening. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/ransomware-tales-the-mitm-attack https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/serious-security-verification-is-vital https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/serious-security-that-keepass-master-password-crack With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin. Original music by Edith Mudge (https://www.edithmudge.com) Got questions/suggestions/stories to share? Email: tips@sophos.com Twitter: NakedSecurity (https://twitter.com/nakedsecurity)

Luminiferous aether. A $10m cybercrime reward. Bank scam kingpin gets 13 years. Three Apple 0-days. A Python malware maelstrom. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/us-offers-10m-bounty-for-russian-ransomware-suspect https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/phone-scamming-kingpin-gets-13-years https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/apples-secret-is-out-3-zero-days-fixed https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/pypi-open-source-code-repository-deals-with-manic-malware-maelstrom With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin. Original music by Edith Mudge (https://www.edithmudge.com) Got questions/suggestions/stories to share? Email: tips@sophos.com Twitter: NakedSecurity (https://twitter.com/nakedsecurity)

An Apple product that flopped (and was not the Newton). Two-faced sysadmin jailed for 6 years. The smart plug with the unsmart security hole. Clearview AI again, once more, again. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/whodunnit-cybercrook-gets-6-years https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/belkin-wemo-smart-plug-v2-the-buffer-overflow https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/zut-alors-raclage-crapuleux-clearview-ai With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin. Original music by Edith...