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Showing posts with label Paul Ducklin. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

HP leaves accidental keylogger in laptop keyboard driver

HP didnt beat around the bush - when a researcher found a left-over keylogger, the company fessed up and fixed it fast. Result!

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Friday, December 1, 2017

Apple’s rocky week with passwords in High Sierra [VIDEO]

We took to Facebook Live to discuss what happened in Apple's "password nightware" week...

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Thursday, November 30, 2017

Apple’s “blank root password” fix needs a fix of its own – here it is

Bug, fix, bug, fix - but we're still saying "Well done" to Apple for a superquick response to the "blank root password" vulnerability.

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Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Apple closes that big root hole – “Install this update as soon as possible”

That Apple root hole we wrote about just yesterday? Apple has pushed out a patch already - get it while it's hot!

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Apple Macs have gaping root hole – here’s a superquick way to check and fix it

You can't login as "root" on a Mac because it never asks you to set the password, so you don't know what it is. Except that it's [blank].

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Monday, November 27, 2017

How one man could have deleted any image on Facebook

Pouya Darabi found how to embed other people's images in a Facebook poll so that deleting *his* poll also deleted *their* files.

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Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Uber suffered massive data breach, then paid hackers to keep quiet

Uber suffered a data breach in 2016, but didn't tell anyone - instead, it seems the company paid the hackers to help to hush it up.

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Thursday, November 16, 2017

Ransomware via RDP – how to stay safe! [VIDEO]

Crooks love to get into your network and wander around as if they were on your IT team. Here'e one good reason why you want to stop them!

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Saturday, November 11, 2017

You *did* encrypt that USB drive… didn’t you? [Chet Chat Podcast 265]

Here's the latest episode of the Chet Chat podcast...enjoy.

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Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Sick of Twitter’s 140-character limit? These guys gave themselves 30,000!

A pair of German pranksters figured out how to write HUGE tweets - and Twitter wasn't very pleased...

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Monday, October 23, 2017

Just say “No!” – how to stop the DDE email attack [VIDEO]

The DDE attack sounds scary - no macros, no tell-tale scripts, no attachment needed. Learn what to look for and how to stop an attack.

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What the KRACK was that? [Chet Chat Podcast 264]

Live from BSides Calgary in Alberta, Canada, here's this week's Chet Chat podcast...

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Monday, October 16, 2017

Wi-Fi at risk from KRACK attacks – here’s what to do

KRACK attacks work against networks using WPA and WPA2 encryption

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Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Apache Struts “serialisation” vulnerability – what you need to know

A bug in Apache Struts, a popular software toolkit for building web services, could let crooks take control of your server.

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Thursday, August 10, 2017

.why .it’s .time .to .fix .localhost

When you type in "localhost" it refers to your local host - this very computer right here. Or not. And Mike West wants to fix that.

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Friday, August 4, 2017

WannaCry crooks cash out their ransom

Curiouser and curiouser, said Alice

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Monday, July 31, 2017

Should Adobe make Flash open source? [POLL]

Some of us are counting down to the end of Flash; others are trying to give it life after death. Who's right? Have your say...

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Friday, July 14, 2017

BUPA breach – why names and addresses matter

UK healthcare company BUPA just had an employee run off with half a million names and addresses - here's what we can learn from the breach.

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Monday, July 10, 2017

Tendulkar wants your number on Twitter, what do you do?

Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar asked 17m Twitter followers to send him their friends' phone numbers - good intentions, bad idea!

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Friday, July 7, 2017

Update your Android now – many holes fixed including ‘BroadPwn’ Wi-Fi bug

According to Google, a bug in Broadcom's wireless firmware could allow a crook within Wi-Fi range to take over Android itself remotely.

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