Security News

S3 Ep130: Open the garage bay doors, HAL [Audio + Text]
2023-04-13 18:54

DOUG Patches aplenty, connected garage doors, and motherboard malfeasance. DUCK I am still trying to make sense of when you said "Connected garage doors", Doug.

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S3 Ep129: When spyware arrives from someone you trust
2023-04-06 18:57

DOUG. Wi-Fi hacks, World Backup Day, and supply chain blunders. DUCK. Very simply put, the only backup you will ever regret is the one you did not make.

S3 Ep128: So you want to be a cyber­criminal? [Audio + Text]
2023-03-30 19:43

DOUG. Honeypots, patches and the passing of an icon. DUCK. I know where I want it to stop, Doug!

S3 Ep127: When you chop someone out of a photo, but there they are anyway…
2023-03-23 19:59

They found this bug in the app on Google Pixel Phones that lets you take a screenshot, or a photo you've captured, and crop it, or blank out bits of it. Google Pixel phones had a serious data leakage bug - here's what to do!

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S3 Ep 126: The price of fast fashion (and feature creep) [Audio + Text]
2023-03-16 19:56

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S3 Ep125: When security hardware has security holes [Audio + Text]
2023-03-09 20:58

Ransomware bust, ransomware warning, and anti-ransomware advice. DOUG. Ransomware, more ransomware, and TPM vulnerabilities.

S3 Ep124: When so-called security apps go rogue [Audio + Text]
2023-03-02 19:40

DOUG. Scambaiting, rogue 2FA apps, and we haven't heard the last of LastPass. Alright, let's stay on the subject of 2FA. We are seeing a spike in rogue 2FA apps in both app stores.

S3 Ep123: Crypto company compromise kerfuffle [Audio + Text]
2023-02-23 19:58

DOUG. Crypto company code captured, Twitter's pay-for-2FA play, and GoDaddy breached. DOUG. Well, let's bring things into the modern, and talk about GoDaddy.

S3 Ep122: Stop calling every breach “sophisticated”! [Audio + Text]
2023-02-16 19:46

DOUG. Patching bugs, hacking Reddit, and the early days of computing. Like in the LastPass breach and the recent GitHub breach, source code got stolen, along with a bit of other stuff.

S3 Ep121: Can you get hacked and then prosecuted for it? [Audio + Text]
2023-02-09 19:41

Exactly the same when you try and use a password you say, "I want to copy that password and use it." You have to put in a master password to get access to your passwords, but you don't have to put in the master password to get access to the configuration file to get access to the passwords.