Here’s the latest epsiode of our weekly Chet Chat podcast, for your listening pleasure. From a carder ring that got busted to a spamming system that ran amuck, let yourself be amused and educated at the same time…
Monthly Archives: November 2014
Senate kills bill that would have reined in NSA and rampant surveillance
Yesterday the Senate axed The USA Freedom Act, which missed the chance to be debated by just two “yes” votes. With it goes what privacy advocates had called the best opportunity yet to curb the country’s run-amok surveillance.
Google fined for not taking down “right to be forgotten” links worldwide
The “right to be forgotten” case is the first in Europe to take the power to compel link takedown outside a country’s border and into the search results Google delivers worldwide. 
Microsoft “tops up” Patch Tuesday, issues delayed fix for zero-day hole in logon security
Microsoft has issued a “top up” security bulletin for a fix that didn’t quite make it into the November 2014 Patch Tuesday. The vulnerability can be used to turn any user into a domain administrator, and it’s been exploited in the wild…
Naked Security bids farewell to HTTP
From now on Naked Security will only be available over secure, encrypted HTTPS with Strict Transport Security and Forward Secrecy.
Would you allow access to Facebook at Work? [POLL]
What would you say to a variant of Facebook that you could use at work? And not just *at* work, but *for* work?
Anonymous e-hijacks KKK in wake of threats against Ferguson protesters
Attackers affiliating themselves with the Anonymous brand of hacktivists have resulted in two hijacked Twitter accounts, doxing of alleged Ku Klux Klan members, and 4 DDoSed sites. 
Breached US State Department takes email offline to update security
The US State Department spent the weekend trying to mop up its unclassified email system and public sites in the aftermath of a recent attack. 
Apple ships X 10.10.1 – does it fix those Wi-Fi problems?
Reader: “So Paul, has Yosemite 10.10.1 fixed the Wi-Fi problems?” Duck: “The answer is…” Find out, as they say, inside.
Jailed Twitter troll: ‘It was disgusting what I did’
A woman who was sentenced to 12 weeks in jail for sending abusive tweets to journalist Caroline Criado-Perez has spoken of her regret over the abuse she dished out on Twitter.