Naked Security

Naked Security

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July 28, 2022 S3 Ep93: Office security, data breach costs, and leisurely patches
Geosynchronicity. Office security (on-off-on). A half-billion-dollar data breach cost. And patch that browser!
Original music by Edith Mudge
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22 min
July 21, 2022 S3 Ep92: Log4Shell4Ever, summer tips, and scammer timing
Integrated circuits and Nobel prizes. Log4Shell - forever? Cybersecurity tips for summmer. Scams and coincidence.
Original music by Edith Mudge
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23 min
July 14, 2022 S3 Ep91: Code Red, OpenSSL, Java bugs and Office macros
Memories of the Code Red worm. OpenSSL fixes two tiny but troublesome bugs. More trouble in Java-land. Office macros off and back on again. Potential perils of paying ransomware demands.
Original music by Edith Mudge
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26 min
July 07, 2022 S3 Ep90: Chrome 0-day again, True Cybercrime, and a 2FA bypass
Chrome quashes another zero-day browser bug. Two big-time cybercrime
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Original music by Edith Mudge
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28 min
June 30, 2022 S3 Ep89: Sextortion, blockchain blunder, and an OpenSSL bugfix
Memories of the iPhone 1. Sextortion scams target LGBTQ+ daters. Yet another blockchain blunder. OpenSSL fixes the bug missed in the last bugfix. And what became of Little Bobby Tables?
Original music by Edith Mudge
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26 min
June 23, 2022 S3 Ep88: Phone scammers, hacking bust, and data breach fines
Duck gets behind the Ducks. 2000 phone scammers arrested in Interpol action. A three-year-old hacking case ends in conviction. And a Canadian financial company picks up an enormous data breach fine.
Original music by Edith Mudge
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23 min
June 15, 2022 S3 Ep87: Follina, AirTags, ID theft and the Law of Big Numbers
Computer Science in the 1800s. Fixing Follina. AirTag stalking. ID theft site seizure. And the Law of Big Numbers versus SMS scams.
Original music by Edith Mudge
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25 min
June 08, 2022 S3 Ep86: The crooks were in our network for HOW long?!
The dawn of the x86 era. The Active Adversary Playbook. A sort-of zero day in Windows. A real-life zero-day in Atlassian Confluence. And the registry settings that could keep you in your job.
Original music by Edith Mudge
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24 min
June 02, 2022 S3 Ep85: Now THAT'S what I call a Microsoft Office exploit!
Why calling a computer after a famous scientist doesn't always help. The wacky but dangerous 0-day hole in Windows. Supply chain attacks and the crooks who orchestrate them. Smishing revisited. And why saying what you really mean makes you better at cybersecurity.
Original music by Edith Mudge
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25 min
May 26, 2022 S3 Ep84: Government demand, Mozilla velocity, and Clearview fine
How network comms caught a murderer back in in 1845. Why the US government said, "Patch, or else!" How Mozilla got a double code-execution bug fixed in 48 hours. And why
" rel="noopener noreferrer">controversial face-matching company Clearview AI got fined $10m.
Original music by Edith Mudge
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15 min

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