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“To the moon!” Cryptocurrency hamster Mr Goxx trades online 24/7
by Paul Ducklin Sadly, a lot of the cryptocurrency news that we write about on Naked Security involves cybercriminals getting mixed up in things, often with depressing results. Two months ago, for example, a Japanese called Liquid found that a cool $100 million had...
Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Building your career
by Paul Ducklin The overall motto of #Cybermonth consists of three simple words. Repeat these words (try sitting on your hands while you’re saying them, for extra safety) whenever you’re faced with a cybersecurity risk, instead of rushing straight in and making a...
LANtenna hack spies on your data from across the room! (Sort of)
by Paul Ducklin If you’re a Naked Security Podcast listener (and if you aren’t, please give it a try and subscribe if you like it!), you may remember a humorous remark about ‘sideband’ attacks and sneaky data exfiltration tricks that Sophos expert Chester Wisniewski...
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S3 Ep54: Another 0-day, double Apache patch, and Fight The Phish [Podcast]
by Paul Ducklin [04’04”] Apple (you guessed it!) fixes yet another iPhone 0-day. [08’38”] Apache patches an embarrassing bug and then has to patch the patch. [20’01”] It’s Fight The Phish week. [28’42”] Oh! No! The computer that punched a user in the face. With Paul...
Romance scams with a cryptocurrency twist – new research from SophosLabs
by Paul Ducklin Sadly, we’ve needed to write and warn about romance scams and romance scammers many times in recent years. Indeed, in February 2021 we published an article entitled Romance scams at all-time high: here’s what you need to know, following a report from...
Apple quietly patches yet another iPhone 0-day – check you have 15.0.2
by Paul Ducklin It’s been a wild few weeks for Apple, or perhaps an “in-the-wild” few weeks, with several zero-day bugs necessitating emergency updates. We were going to say “unexpected updates”, but all (or almost all) Apple security patches are, of course,...
Cybersecurity awareness month: Fight the phish!
by Paul Ducklin It’s the second week of Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2021, and this week’s theme is an alliterative reminder: Fight the Phish! Unfortunately, anti-phishing advice often seems to fall on deaf ears, because phishing is an old cybercrime trick, and lots...
Apache patch proves patchy – now you need to patch the patch
by Paul Ducklin Software patches are sometimes a bit like buses. You don’t get one for a while, and then three come at once. For buses on busy urban routes, at least, the explanation of the phenomenon goes something like this. If three buses start out travelling the...
S3 Ep53: Apple Pay, giftcards, cybermonth, and ransomware busts [Podcast]
by Paul Ducklin [01’47”] Apple Pay gets hacked (sort of). [13’18”] DOJ busts four gift card scamming suspects. [25’23”] We give you our top tips for #Cybermonth. [27’40”] Ukrainian Cyberpolice take on ransomware crooks. [32’13”] Oh! No! The user that volunteered to...