Sophos Security

Sophos security experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin aim their insights at the latest security news in our weekly Chet Chat podcast. Recorded on Patch Tuesday, which was also Remembrance Day (Veterans' Day), this episode covers topics that are interesting, important - and intriguing!

Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin dig into the latest security news for lessons we can all learn. In this episode of our weekly quarter-hour podcast: Patch Tuesday, and why simply counting vulnerabilities isn't a good measure of danger; file-encrypting ransomware comes to Android; Apple announces Wi-Fi MAC scrambling as a privacy measure; and mysterious iPhone-locking cybercrook "Oleg Pliss" has been arrested...perhaps.

Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin take on the latest security news with their usual mix of enthusiasm, expertise and entertainment. This week, they dig into the bafflement of the disappearing TrueCrypt encryption software: did it jump, or was it pushed? They also look at the takedown of the Gameover and CryptoLocker malware by law enforcement, and Chet sends Duck down memory lane to tell us what we can learn from ten years of mobile malware.

John Shier interviews security expert Chester Wisniewski about the sudden demise of the freeware TrueCrypt project. They discuss what happened and what users should consider when moving on to greener pastures.

Chester Wisnieski and Paul Ducklin dig into the important security stories of the past week, and pull out some lessons we can all learn. Take an entertaining and informative journey through the case of Apple iDevices held to ransom in Australia; the calamity of eBay's super-sized data breach; a carefully-coordinated cybercrime bust in Bulgaria; and Sourceforge's "in a good cause" password reset.

The Chet Chat comes to you this week from Hanoi, Vietnam with special guest Sean Richmond from Sophos Australia. Chet and Sean continue the tradition of working through the details to paint you a clearer picture. This week they tackle the FBI's crackdown on the Blackshades malware, new research showing more flaws in Chip & PIN technology, the latest Apple updates and an analysis of the EFF's "Who has got your back" report.

Road trips again prove no barrier to the Chet Chat, with Chester Wisniewski calling home to the studio from the exotic wilderness of the Air Canada lounge at Toronto Airport. As usual, Chester and Paul Ducklin turn their insightful and entertaining gaze on the security lessons we can learn from the past few days. There's the difference between "Important" and "Critical" on Patch Tuesday; Apple's possible return from the security wildnerness; Bitly's underwhelming breach notification; and Snapchat, who settled with the FTC by admitting some rather unflattering stuff about the company...

Sophos security experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin look at what we can learn from the week's security news. Target, Dropbox, Microsoft, the mysterious Webdriver Torso and Sophos Naked Security itself feature in this episode of our weekly podcast.

A zero-day in IE to contend with, followed by a zero-day in Flash; two approaches to fixing OpenSSL after the Heartbleed bug; how to get a free pass to the Infosec Europe 2014 event in London; and why security happens by design and not by accident! Chet and Duck turn their attention on the lessons we can learn from the latest security news.

Computer security experts Chester Wisnieski and Paul Ducklin of Sophos turn their attention on the week's news. Mixing wit, insight and advice, the duo look at: the risk from iOS malware, the state of play in fingerprint security, whether to trust mobile apps, why it's a bad idea to hack the taxman, and what to do if Brian Krebs calls to warn you've been pwned.

From the latest Heartbleed revelations to various successes by law enforcement, Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin take you through the big computer security stories of the week. Be entertained as you learn from the news, all in our regular quarter-hour podcast format.

Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin help you to understand - and explain what you can do about - the big ticket security news items of the past week. The epic "Heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL, the last patches ever for XP and Office 2003, and Apple's attitude to updates and support all come under the microscope.

Chet and Duck get together once again to look at the week's news with their usual blend of humor, insight and informed intensity. There's Adobe's password breach revisited (in poetic form, no less), why there are 42 days left in Windows XP, how Snapchat dissed the US legislature, and what World Backup Day really ought to mean to you...

On 01 April 2014, we decided not to do an April Fool's but to have some April Fun instead! So we turned three recent computer security stories into poems. OK, rhyming verse. Doggerel, in fact. Here, then, with apologies to Mr Robert William Service, are the stories of Mt Gox, Snapchat and the End of XP, as you've never heard them before.

How bad is the latest Microsoft Word 0-day? Does OS X really need patching less often than Windows? What does Gmail's move to HTTPS-only really mean? And if WhatsApp has privacy coded into its DNA, is it coded into its app, too? Chet and Duck add their opinion and advice to the good and the bad in the past weeks' news.