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DUCK. Yes, Uber has come out with a follow up report, and it seems that they're suggesting that a hacking group like LAPSUS$ was responsible. Just because you have those that's a security gate, but it's not the end-all and be-all to keeping someone out.

I'm coming to you from Vancouver, I'm downtown, I'm looking out the window, and there's actually an Uber sitting outside the window. At a very high level, the consensus appears to be that there was some social engineering of an Uber employee that allowed someone to get a foothold inside of Uber's network.

If you open something in the current window, then you're significantly limited as to how exciting and "System-like" you can make it look, aren't you? You can't write anything outside the browser window, so you can't sneakily put a window that looks like wallpaper on the desktop, like it's been there all along.

DUCK. I'm doing very, very well, thank you, Douglas! A messy thing that is bugging people is the question of this TikTok thing.

LastPass source code breach - do we still recommend password managers? DOUG. That's important to point out, because a lot of people, I think, who don't understand how password managers work - and I wasn't totally clear on this either as you write in the article, your local machine is doing the heavy lifting, and all the decoding is done *on your local machine*, so LastPass doesn't actually have access to any of the things you're trying to protect anyway.

He's so famous that even his ties - he always wears a tie, beautiful coloured ties - even his ties have a Twitter feed, Doug. There are lots of things you can do, provided that: you know where you should be; you know where you want to be; and you've got some way of differentiating the good behaviour from the bad behaviour.

If you want to understand a little more about it, your Naked Security article explains it incredibly well for people that are not normally acquainted with things like APIC controllers. Do you think, Chester, that they've targeted the Conti gang because they had a little bit of dishonour among thieves, as it were?

If we turn back the clock to five years ago, that's when Slack started leaking hashed passwords. If you're a Slack user, I would assume that if they didn't realise they were leaking hashed passwords for five years, maybe they didn't quite enumerate the list of people affected completely either.

DOUG. A critical Samba bug, yet another crypto theft, and Happy SysAdmin Day. Moving on to something not so great: a memory mismanagement bug in GnuTLS. DUCK. Yes, I thought this was worth writing up on Naked Security, because when people think of open-source cryptography, they tend to think of OpenSSL. Because that's the one that everybody's heard of, and it's the one that's probably had the most publicity in recent years over bugs, because of Heartbleed.

Leisurely bug fixes all that, and more, on the Naked Security Podcast. DOUG. We talked about an Office macro security feature that people were asking for for the better part of 20 years.