DOUG. Leaky light bulbs, WinRAR bugs, and “Airplane mode, [HIGH RISING TONE] question mark?” All that and more on the Naked Security podcast. [MUSICAL MODEM] Welcome to the podcast, everybody. I am Doug Aamoth; he is Paul Ducklin. Paul, your thoughts? DUCK. My thoughts are, Doug, that… …that was a very good representation of an interrogation mark. […]
At the tail-end of last week, Microsoft published a report entitled Analysis of Storm-0558 techniques for unauthorized email access. In this rather dramatic document, the company’s security team revealed the background to a previously unexplained hack in which data including email text, attachments and more were accessed: from approximately 25 organizations, including government agencies and […]
DOUG. Emergency Apple patches, justice for the 2020 Twitter hack, and “Turn off your phones, please!” All that, and more, on the Naked Security podcast. [MUSICAL MODEM] Welcome to the podcast, everybody. I am Doug Aamoth; he is Paul Ducklin. Paul, how do you do? DUCK. I’m very well, Douglas. And just to be clear, when we […]
Remember that zipped-lipped but super-fast update that Apple pushed out three weeks ago, on 2023-05-01? That update was the very first in Apple’s newfangled Rapid Security Response process, whereby the company can push out critical patches for key system components without going through a full-size operating system update that takes you to a new version […]
Cybersecurity researcher Sam Sabetan yesterday went public with insecurity revelations against IoT vendor Nexx, which sells a range of “smart” devices including door openers, home alarms and remotely switchable power plugs. According to Sabetan, he reported the bugs to Nexx back in January 2023, but to no avail. So he decided to sound the alarm […]
The birth of ENIAC. A “sophisticated attack” (someone got phished). A cryptographic hack enabled by a security warning. Valentine’s Day Patch Tuesday. Apple closes spyware-sized 0-day hole. DOUG. Patching bugs, hacking Reddit, and the early days of computing. All that, and more, on the Naked Security podcast. [MUSICAL MODEM] Welcome to the podcast, everybody. I am […]
It’s the last regular working weekday of 2022 (in the UK and the US, at least), in the unsurprisingly relaxed and vacationistic gap between Christmas and New Year… …so you were probably expecting us to come up either with a Coolest Stories Of The Year In Review listicle, or with a What You Simply Must […]
DOUG. Wireless spyware, credit card skimming, and patches galore. All that, and more, on the Naked Security podcast. [MUSICAL MODEM] Welcome to the podcast, everybody. I am Doug Aamoth; he is Paul Ducklin. Paul, how do you do? DUCK. I’m very well, Doug. Cold, but well. DOUG. It’s freezing here too, and everyone is sick… but that’s December […]
DOUG. SIM swapping, zero-days, the [dramatic voice] P-i-n-g of D-E-A-T-H, and LastPass… again. All that, and more, on the Naked Security podcast. [MUSICAL MODEM] Welcome to the podcast everybody. I am Doug Aamoth. With me, as always, is Paul Ducklin. Paul, how do you do? DUCK. Very well, Doug. You put some high drama sound into that […]
One of the first low-level network tools that any computer user learns about is the venerable ping utility. Named after the eponymous sound effect from any and every old-school war movie scene involving submarines, the command is a metaphorical echo (see what we did there?) of the underwater version of RADAR known as SONAR. You […]