Sophos Security Chet Chat – Episode 138 – March 13, 2014
News, opinion, advice and research!
Here’s our latest security podcast, featuring Sophos experts and Naked Security writers Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin.
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Stories covered in Chet Chat Episode 138
- Patch Tuesday wrap-up, March 2014 – critical from Microsoft, important from Adobe
- Microsoft Patch Tuesday – 5 bulletins, 2 critical, 1 for Mac users!
- The Final Countdown – Windows XP end of support popup has started
- On the trail of Advanced Persistent Threats…
- Advanced Persistent Threats – the new normal?
- 1 in 30 have been hit by CryptoLocker and 40% pay the ransom, says study
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What does zero day mean, and where did it come from?
Good question. It’s a techie term we rather glibly take for granted these days.
There’s some vulnerability jargon-busting in a sidebar in this article:
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/02/21/adobe-pushes-out-critical-flash-update-second-zero-day-hole-of-month/
Lifting from there: “If an in-the-wild attack happens before a patch is ready, it is known as a zero-day, meaning that you had zero days of advance warning about a patch, because there wasn’t one.”
You might also like this podcast, called “Understanding vulnerabilities”:
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/sophos-techknow-understanding-vulnerabilties-podcast/