Sophos Security Chet Chat – Episode 128 – Dec 31, 2013
News, opinion, advice and research!
Here’s our latest security podcast, featuring Sophos experts and Naked Security writers Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin.
The Chet Chat is produced weekly in a quarter-hour format, and gives you an informative and entertaining take on the latest security news.
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Stories covered in Chet Chat Episode 128
- CryptoLocker ransomware – see how it works, learn about prevention, cleanup and recovery
- CryptoLocker ransomware crooks offer “late payment penalty” option
- PRISM: 50% of Americans approve of NSA’s internet spying program
- PRISM – not as bad as you thought? (And don’t call it PRISM!)
- Target confirms: Crooks may have spent holiday shopping season feasting on 40m filched payment cards
- Sophos Techknow – The End of XP [PODCAST]
- Hack of online dating site Cupid Media exposes 42 million plaintext passwords
- Anatomy of a password disaster – Adobe’s giant-sized cryptographic blunder
- Anatomy of a security hole – Google’s “Android Master Key” debacle explained
- Anatomy of another Android hole – Chinese researchers claim new code verification bypass
- Anatomy of a file format problem – yet another code verification bypass in Android
- WhatsApp mobile messaging app in the firing line again over cryptographic blunder
- The OpenSSL software bug that saves you from surveillance!
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