Here it is…this week’s Chet Chat security podcast. In this episode: fixing routers, trusting browsers, killing zombies and showing TLC to sysadmins. 
Daily Archives: July 23, 2014
Google given 18 months to change its handling of user data
The Italian Data Protection Commissioner has given Google 18 months to change the way it treats and stores user data.
iSpy? Researcher exposes backdoor in iPhones and iPads
A “backdoor” that Apple built into iOS for developers can be used to spy on iPhones and iPads by governments, law enforcement, or cyber criminals, according to forensics researcher Jonathan Zdziarski.
Firefox 31 has arrived – 11 bulletins, 3 critical, 0 visual surprises
Firefox 31 is out. So is its updated conservative older brother, the Extended Support Release, now at 24.7. And Firefox’s email-oriented cousin Thunderbird gets updated, too.
Car hackers build anti-car-hacking gadget
Besides yet more white-knuckled car-jacking stunts, security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek also plan to unveil at next month’s Black Hat conference a prototype device meant to foil the type of hacks they’ve been throwing at cars.
“Rickmote” box Rickrolls Chromecast, forcibly earworms hapless victims
Never gonna give you up, Never gonna let you down, Never gonna run around and desert you.