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SSCC 206 – Who gave you permission to use my Wi-Fi? [PODCAST]
Listen to the latest episode of our weekly security podcast… …a quarter-hour of news turned into educational fun!
Amazon releases low-cholesterol Heartbleed medicine called ‘s2n’
Remember the Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL? Here’s Amazon’s open-source effort to expand our choice of cryptographic sauce…
The FREAK bug in TLS/SSL – what you need to know
The FREAK bug affects TLS/SSL, the security protocol that puts the S into HTTPS and the padlock in your browser’s address bar. Paul Ducklin explains in plain English…
The EPIC edition – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
One less opt-in app, one more Android virus, and a bunch of EPIC failures… All in this week’s 60 Second Security.
Pwnie Awards for Heartbleed, “goto fail”, Mt. Gox
The golden My Little Pony statuettes have been passed out at the Black Hat Security 2014 conference, commemorating select infosec glories and groans. Best song: the haunting “SSL Smiley Song”, sung to the tune of “Jingle Bells”. 
SSCC 156 – Warbiking in Manhattan, hubris for Google, and how less can be more [PODCAST]
Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin are back with this week’s security podcast, turning plain old news into advice you can use.
LibreSSL ships first portable version, now up to 48% less huge!
LibreSSL, OpenBSD’s drop-in replacement for OpenSSL started after the pain of Heartbleed, has just published its first “portable” version. If you’re a coder and you’re interested in security, why not try it and see what you think?
EFF sues NSA over hoarding of zero days
Wouldn’t it be nice to know just how, exactly, the spy agency decides whether to silently exploit zero days for snooping purposes while leaving businesses and individuals in the dark with their bellies exposed? The EFF has filed a FOIA lawsuit to help find answers. 
BoringSSL wants kill the excitement that led to Heartbleed
Some things just aren’t meant to be exciting. In fact some things are supposed to be so far from novelty, surprise and frivolity that any whiff of excitement at all is a bad sign indeed. Introducing Boring SSL…