Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin present this week’s edition of the regular Sophos security podcast, the “Chet Chat.” In this episode: the TrueCrypt saga continues; the Towelroot software for unlocking Androids; ransomware after CryptoLocker; and Canada’s long, long, long-awaited anti-spam law.
Daily Archives: June 25, 2014
37% of Canadian Justice Department fail phishing awareness test
An in-house awareness test run late last year at Department of Justice Canada has revealed that a good percentage of its employees are for the most part fairly easy to trick with phishing scams. 
Cupid Media “breached Privacy act” after storing users’ passwords in plain text
The Australian Privacy Commissioner has ruled that Cupid Media Pty Ltd – of OKCupid dating site fame – breached the Privacy Act following a data breach which saw over 40 million customer records exposed.
hitchBOT – Privacy invading hitchhiking robot or fun social experiment?
Introducing hitchBOT, a science meets art project, getting ready to hitch 6158 km across Canada from Halifax to Victoria next month.
Carwash POS systems hacked, credit card data drained
Police in the US state of Massachusetts have busted what they say is a gang of thieves who were buying stolen credit cards and using them to buy gift cards that were then sometimes exhausted of their balance, washed clean of data and reloaded with more stolen credit card data.