Naked Security

Chet and Duck turn the week's news into useful lessons once again.

There's Patch Tuesday, the impending end of XP, Advanced Persistent Threatitis, and some astonishing statistics about just how many people have been hit by the CryptoLocker ransomware.

Join the dynamic duo for another entertaining quarter-hour on computer security.

What about support for OS X Lion and Mountain Lion? Are they, or aren't they? Why can't Apple just say? Could the addition of a rootkit to the Gameover malware be a blessing in disguise? If you want to hack your way to better results at University, is jumping from an F to an A a wise maneouvre? And will proposed federal data breach laws in the US make things better or worse?

Chester and Duck once again aim their entertaining expertise at the security news of the week...

Paul Ducklin hooks up "live at RSA" with Naked Security writers Chester Wisniewski and John Shier for a Conference Special podcast.

This half-length Chet Chat packs in one-quarter humour, five-eighths news and two-thirds insight - find out what was good, weird, interesting, or all of the above, at this year's RSA 2014 event!

Chester ducks out of booth duties at the RSA 2014 conference in San Francisco to bring you this week's Chet Chat.

From Apple's SSL bug to Adobe's second-in-a-month emergency Flash update, Chet and Duck once again help you to learn from others' mistakes.

Chet and Duck again turn the week's security news into advice you can use and share with your friends.

What happened to Flappy Bird? Why was Talking Angela so talked about? Is internet access at the Winter Olympics in Sochi really a "special danger" situation? What can we learn from the database breaches at Kickstarter and Forbes?

Chet and Duck cast their expert eyes over the week's security news.

The pair bring some infectious enthusiam to Sophos's recently-announced acquisition of Cyberoam; they look at Patch Tuesday plus Adobe's out-of-band update to Flash; urge aginst the trend for big brands to bundle "foistware downloads" of complete new applications into what are supposed to be security updates; and plenty more besides.

Join this dynamic duo as they turn the latest news into a quarter-hour podcast that is informative, entertaining and educational.

Chet and Duck review the week's news in their informed and entertainingly serious style, discussing the prizes on offer at this year's PWN2OWN competition, talking about a new twist in Android malware, and reviewing the latest attack reports from Yahoo and Target.

Oh, and Sophos Naked Security is up for "Blog that Best Represents the Security Industry" in the forthcoming Security Bloggers Awards 2014, so...please vote for us if you are elgibile to do so.

This week's Chet Chat starts out with credit card breaches, as yet more big PII leaks hit the news; then covers the issue of whether you really need good passwords everywhere; before going into an upbeat and encouraging conclusion - we like to finish on a positive note! - discussing Data Privacy Day.

You did know it was Data Privacy Day, didn't you? (You do now.)

Chet and Duck turn a week's worth of lost data, malware attacks, misleading apologies and shabby security into actions you can take to steer a safer course inside your own organisation.

From digitally signed Mac malware, through plaintext password storage, all the way to the South Korean credit agency that lost personal information on close to half of the country's population, here's our weekly "podcast with a purpose."

In early 2014, a contractor at credit-scoring company Korea Credit Bureau was arrested for loading up a USB key with personally identifiable information for some 20,000,000 people, about 40% of South Korea's population.

Shades of the Bradley/Chelsea Manning "Wikileaks" saga of three years earlier, in which decades of confidential US State Department cables were siphoned off.

Here's a sadly-still-relevant podcast from the Wikileaks incident, looking at the question, "How could this have happened?"