Saturday, March 25, 2023

S3 Ep127: The deleted data that was there all along

The mobile phone bugs that Google kept quiet, just in case. The mysterious case of ATM video uploads. When redacted data springs back to life. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/dangerous-android-phone-0-day-bugs-revealed https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/bitcoin-atm-customers-hacked-by-video-upload https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/google-pixel-phones-had-a-serious-data-leakage-bug https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/windows-11-also-vulnerable-to-acropalypse With Paul Ducklin and Chester Wisniewski Original music by Edith Mudge (https://www.edithmudge.com) Got questions/suggestions/stories to share? Email: tips@sophos.com Twitter:...

S3 Ep126: Freaky fashion apps and feature creep

The price of fast fashion. Firefox fixes. Feature creep fail curtailed in Patch Tuesday updates. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/shein-shopping-app-goes-rogue https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/firefox-111-patches-11-holes https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/microsoft-fixes-two-0-days With Paul Ducklin and Chester Wisniewski 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)

S3 Ep125: When security hardware has security holes

Memories of Michelangelo (the virus, not the artist). Data leakage bugs in TPM 2.0. Ransomware bust, ransomware warning, and anti-ransomware advice. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/serious-security-tpm-2-0-vulns https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/doppelpaymer-ransomware-supsects-arrested https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/feds-warn-about-right-royal-ransomware 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)

S3 Ep124: When so-called security apps go rogue

How Woz nearly gave away the Apple I. Rogue software packages. Rogue network "administrators". Rogue keyloggers. Rogue authenticators. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/npm-javascript-packages-abused-to-create-scambait https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/dutch-police-arrest-three-cyberextortion-suspects https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/lastpass-the-crooks-used-a-keylogger https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/beware-rogue-2fa-apps-in-app-store-and-google-play 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)

S3 Ep123: Crypto company compromise kerfuffle

The first search warrant for computer storage. GoDaddy breach. Twitter surprise. Coinbase kerfuffle. The hidden cost of success. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/godaddy-admits-crooks-hit-us-with-malware https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/twitter-tells-users-pay-up https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/coinbase-breached-by-social-engineers 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)

S3 Ep122: Stop calling every breach “sophisticated”!

The birth of ENIAC. A "sophisticated attack" (read: someone got phished). A cryptographic hack enabled by a security warning. Valetine's Day Patch Tuesday. Apple closes spyware-sized 0-day hole. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/reddit-admits-it-was-hacked- https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/serious-security-gnutls-follows-openssl https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/microsoft-patch-tuesday-36-rce-bugs https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/apple-fixes-zero-day-spyware-implant-bug With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin Original music by Edith Mudge (https://www.edithmudge.com) Got...

S3 Ep121: When cybercrime victims are culprits, too

Crypto crimelords. VMware, OpenSSH and OpenSSL. Breacher busted. Is that a bug or a feature? https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/tracers-in-the-dark https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/using-vmware-worried-about-esxi-ransomware https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/openssh-fixes-double-free-memory-bug https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/openssl-fixes-high-severity-data-stealing-bug https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/finnish-psychotherapy-extortion-suspect-arrested https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/password-stealing-vulnerability-reported-in-keypass 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)

S3 Special: Tracers in the Dark with Andy Greenberg

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 cement our collective online security? Hear renowned cybersecurity author Andy Greenberg's thoughtful commentary on...

S3 Ep120: When dud crypto simply won't let go

The mighty CPU that wasn't. Hive ransomware takedown. Dutch data crime suspect busted. Samba finally gets rid of MD5. GitHub admits to an intrusion. Storing passwords securely. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/hive-ransomware-servers-shut-down https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/dutch-suspect-locked-up https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/serious-security-the-samba-logon-bug https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/github-code-signing-certificates-stolen With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin Original music by Edith Mudge (https://www.edithmudge.com) Got questions/suggestions/stories to...

S3 Ep119: Breaches, patches, leaks and tweaks!

The programming language almost called Oak. GoTo admits to more breach woes. T-Mobile spills 37 million records. Apple patches everything, even iOS 12. And Google mAkES tYpOs for sECurity. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/goto-admits-customer-cloud-backups-stolen https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/t-mobile-admits-to-37000000-customer-records-stolen https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/apple-patches-are-out-old-iphones https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/serious-security-how-deliberate-typos-might-improve-dns With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin Original music by Edith Mudge (https://www.edithmudge.com) Got...

S3 Ep118: Guess your password? No need if it's stolen already!

The HAPPY99 virus reminds us that less is more. Trouble with JSON Web Tokens. Investment scammers busted in Europe. The LifeLock "breach" that wasn't. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/popular-jwt-cloud-security-library-patches https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/multi-million-investment-scammers-busted https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/serious-security-unravelling-the-nortonlifelock-hack 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...

S3 Ep117: The crypto crisis that wasn't (and farewell to Win 7)

Two stories from the underground. Bank scammers busted. The crypto-crack that wasn't. And the end of two Windows eras at the same time. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/inside-a-scammers-lair-ukraine-busts-40 https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/rsa-crypto-cracked-or-perhaps-not https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/microsoft-patch-tuesday-one-0-day 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)

S3 Ep116: Last straw for LastPass? And is cryptography doomed?

The ground-breaking HP-35 digital calculator. Last straw for LastPass? Congress takes on quantum computing. 33 1/3-year-old cybersecurity lessons. Machine learning supply chain attack. https://www.hpmuseum.org/hp35.htm https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/lastpass-finally-admits-they-did-steal-your-password-vaults https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/us-passes-the-quantum-computing-cybersecurity-preparedness-act https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/naked-security-33-1-3-cybersecurity-predictions-for-2023 https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/pytorch-machine-learning-toolkit-pwned 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)

S3 Ep115: Incident response – A day in the life

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more! Paul Duckliin talks to Peter Mackenzie, Director of Incident Response at Sophos, in a cybersecurity session that will alarm, amuse and educate you, all in equal measure. Original music by Edith...

S3 Ep114: Preventing cyberthreats – stop them before they stop you!

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 cybercrime, Fraser truly is a "specialist in everything", and he also...
The Hacker News

OpenAI Reveals Redis Bug Behind ChatGPT User Data Exposure Incident

OpenAI on Friday disclosed that a bug in the Redis open source library was responsible for the exposure of other users' personal information and chat titles in the upstart's ChatGPT service earlier this week. The glitch, which came to light on...
SecurityWeek

US Charges 20-Year-Old Head of Hacker Site BreachForums

The US Justice Department charged Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, founder of BreachForums, a major underground website for computer hackers. The post US Charges 20-Year-Old Head of Hacker Site BreachForums appeared first on SecurityWeek.
SC Magazine

Dish customers struggle with service disruptions weeks after ransomware attack

Customers complain that they are still having payment issues and are not able to contact customer service weeks after Dish Network suffered a ransomware attack.
Security Affairs

CISA announced the Pre-Ransomware Notifications initiative

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced the Pre-Ransomware Notifications service to help organizations stop ransomware attacks before damage occurs. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency announced a new Pre-Ransomware Notification initiative that aims at alerting organizations of...
TechRepublic

DevSecOps puts security in the software cycle

Addressing cybersecurity can be a challenge when the focus is on speed in software development and production life cycles. The post DevSecOps puts security in the software cycle appeared first on TechRepublic.