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Laptop denial-of-service via music: the 1980s R&B song with a CVE!

by Paul Ducklin You’ve probably heard the old joke: “Humour in the public service? It’s no laughing matter!” But the thing with downbeat, blanket judgements of this...

S3 Ep96: Zoom 0-day, AEPIC leak, Conti reward, heathcare security [Audio + Text]

by Paul Ducklin Click-and-drag on the soundwaves below to skip to any point. You can also listen directly on Soundcloud. With Paul Ducklin and Chester Wisniewski. Intro and...

Apple patches double zero-day in browser and kernel – update now!

by Paul Ducklin Apple just pushed out an emergency update for two zero-day bugs that are apparently actively being exploited. There’s a remote code execution hole (RCE)...

Chrome browser gets 11 security fixes with 1 zero-day – update now!

by Paul Ducklin The latest update to Google’s Chrome browser is out, bumping the four-part version number to 104.0.5112.101 (Mac and Linux), or to 104.0.5112.102 (Windows). According...

US offers reward “up to $10 million” for information about the Conti gang

by Naked Security writer You’ve almost certainly seen and heard the word Conti in the context of cybercrime. Conti is the name of a well-known ransomware gang...

Zoom for Mac patches get-root bug – update now!

by Paul Ducklin At the well-known DEF CON security shindig in Las Vegas, Nevada, last week, Mac cybersecurity researcher Patrick Wardle revealed a “get-root” elevation of...

S3 Ep95: Slack leak, Github onslaught, and post-quantum crypto [Audio + Text]

by Paul Ducklin Click-and-drag on the soundwaves below to skip to any point. You can also listen directly on Soundcloud. With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin. Intro and...

APIC/EPIC! Intel chips leak secrets even the kernel shouldn’t see…

by Paul Ducklin Here’s this week’s BWAIN, our jocular term for a Bug With An Impressive Name. BWAIN is an accolade that we hand out when...

Slack admits to leaking hashed passwords for five years

by Paul Ducklin Popular collaboration tool Slack (not to be confused with the nickname of the world’s longest-running Linux distro, Slackware) has just owned up to...

Traffic Light Protocol for cybersecurity responders gets a revamp

by Paul Ducklin The word “protocol” crops up all over the place in IT, usually describing the details of how to exchange data between requester and...

S3 Ep94: This sort of crypto (graphy), and the other sort of crypto (currency!) [Audio + Text]

by Paul Ducklin Click-and-drag on the soundwaves below to skip to any point. You can also listen directly on Soundcloud. With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin. Intro and...

GitHub blighted by “researcher” who created thousands of malicious projects

by Paul Ducklin Just over a year ago, we wrote about a “cybersecurity researcher” who posted almost 4000 pointlessly poisoned Python packages to the popular repository...

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