Here’s the latest episode of our weekly “Chet Chat” security podast. Chet and Duck take on the week’s news in their inimitable way…enjoy!
Monthly Archives: November 2014
YouTube channel swamps police with requests for disclosure of body-cam video
A YouTube channel has been surfacing police body-cam footage. It now has some 75 videos up, showing, among other things, men with knives, break-ins, car accidents, drug smoking, and an emergency phone call about a woman going into labor. Subjects’ privacy, it seems, is getting trampled in the stampede to get at such video. 
Snapchat to warn users about third-party apps, ask them to change their passwords
Instead of how it’s handled The Snappening mass image doxing aftermath so far – i.e., warning users that third-party apps are against its Terms of Use and trawling Google Play and the App Store to snuff them out – Snapchat will now sniff out Snapchatters using third-party apps, warn them that they’ve wandered into a scary app neighborhood, and ask them to change their passwords. 
Patch Tuesday wrap-up, November 2014: Microsoft joins the “security hole in HTTPS” club
Here’s what you need to know about the September 2014 Patch Tuesday updates from Microsoft and Adobe…
Online casino fined for emailing promotions to “self-excluded” gamblers
After gamblers added themselves to a voluntary “self-exclusion” list, they continued to receive promotional offers from the online gambling arm of casino giant Caesars Entertainment Corp. Now the company has to pay a fine.
Paedophile caught after targeted girl’s father impersonates her on Facebook
A paedophile was on bail waiting to be sentenced for a string of sex offences when he contacted what he thought was a 10-year-old girl, telling her she was “gorgeous” and that she should come to his home for “cuddles”. 
Tor Project puzzles over how the law shredded anonymity in Operation Onymous
The Tor Project would very much like to know how identities were laid bare in the recent Operation Onymous.
Firefox turns 10 – celebrates by helping you to forget
The Firefox browser just turned 10. Paul Ducklin takes a trip down memory lane…
US Postal Service breached, employee and customer data stolen
The United States Postal Service on Monday warned workers that their data had been compromised, along with people who had contacted the Customer Care Center between January and August this year. 
Old-time phishing scams are working just fine, Google finds
A new Google study has found that the true masterpieces of phishing are successful 45% of the time. It’s just another example of how phishers may be old dogs, but they can sure learn new tricks. 