S3 Ep149: How many cryptographers does it take to change a light bulb?
Miss Manners confronts copy-and-paste. WinRAR patches bugs. When Airplane mode isn't. How many cryptographers to change a light bulb? Intro...
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20 of 515 episodesS3 Ep148: Remembering crypto heroes
Navajo Code Talkers Day. Beta bogosities . Skimming shenanigans . Hooligan hosting . A cybercrime conundrum. Intro and outro music by Edith...
S3 Ep147: What if you type in your password during a meeting?
An amazing Art Deco computer. Yet more performance-versus-security trouble. Is sound alone enough to sniff out your password? A rap song (of...
S3 Ep146: Tell us about that breach! (If you want to.)
Firefox fixes flaws. The exciting vulnerability that you don't need to be afraid of. Breach reporting rules with lots of leeway. Intro and o...
S3 Ep145: Bugs With Impressive Names!
Apple patches two zero-days, one for a second time. How a 30-year-old cryptosystem got cracked . All your secret are belong to Zenbleed . Re...
S3 Ep144: When threat hunting goes down a rabbit hole
Why your Mac's calendar app says it's JUL 17. One patch , one line, one file. Careful with that {axe,file} , Eugene. Storm season for Micros...
S3 Ep143: Supercookie surveillance shenanigans
Remembering the slide rule. What you need to know about Patch Tuesday. Supercookie surveillance shenanigans. When bugs arrive in pairs . App...
S3 Ep142: Putting the X in X-Ops
First there was DevOps, then SecOps, then DevSecOps. Or should that be SecDevOps? Paul Ducklin talks to Sophos X-Ops insider Matt Holdcroft...
S3 Ep141: What was Steve Jobs's first job?
PONG for one player. Apple pushes out anti-spyware patch . Beware bad passwords on Linux servers . "Twitter hacker" gets 5 years . When mobi...
S3 Ep140: So you think you know ransomware?
Gee Whizz BASIC (probably). Think you know ransomware ? Megaupload, 11 years on . ASUS warns of critical router bugs . MOVEit mayhem Part II...
S3 Ep139: Are password rules like running through rain?
Magnetic core memory. Patch Tuesday and SketchUp shenanigans. More MOVEit mitigations . Mt. Gox back in the news. Gozi malware criminal impr...
S3 Ep138: I like to MOVEit, MOVEit
Calling all modems. KeePass gets an update. MOVEit gets pwned . Chromium zero-day . The backdoor that wasn't really. WPBT explained. Twitter...
S3 Ep137: 16th century crypto skullduggery
How to say "GIF". A Blackmailer-in-the-Middle attack. Knitting your own crypto . KeePass master password shenanigans. Binge listening. Email...
S3 Ep136: Navigating a manic malware maelstrom
Luminiferous aether. A $10m cybercrime reward. Bank scam kingpin gets 13 years . Three Apple 0-days . A Python malware maelstrom . Email tip...
S3 Ep135: Sysadmin by day, extortionist by night
An Apple product that flopped (and was not the Newton). Two-faced sysadmin jailed for 6 years . The smart plug with the unsmart security hol...
S3 Ep134: It's a PRIVATE key - the hint is in the name!
The world-changing Visible Calculator. How not to get a job. Private keys - the hint is in the name. Microsoft's complicated bootkit patch....
S3 Ep133: Apple takes "tight-lipped" to a whole new level
New England gets BASIC. Google hits back at CryptBot crooks. Apple seals its lips on security. Mac malware-as-a-service . World Password Day...
S3 Ep132: Proof-of-concept lets anyone hack at will
The CIH or SpaceFiller virus revisited. Google's 2FA security shortcut . Server vulns under active attack . Two Chrome zero-days , but was i...
S3 Ep131: Can you really have fun with FORTRAN?
Fun with FORTRAN?! An extreme data breach and its consequences. Rogue 2FA apps live in action. Juicejacking revisited. With Doug Aamoth and...
S3 Ep130: Open the garage bay doors, HAL
A common business-oriented language. Patch Tuesday . Secure Boot (without the "Secure" part). Apple zero-days . World-readable garage doors...