Here’s this week’s Chet Chat security podcast for your listening pleasure. Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin of Sophos dissect the week’s security news to see what we can learn from other people’s mistakes…
Tag Archives: Malware
Police slap warning banner ads on ‘pirate’ sites
The City of London Police has started swapping out legitimate ads on websites believed to be serving up pirated content, instead plastering them with warning banner ads.
Android “FBI Lock” malware – how to avoid paying the ransom
The latest “FBI Lock” Android ransomware reported by SophosLabs follows a familiar theme. But it has a slight sting in the tail to make it trickier to remove, so we thought we’d take you through the steps…
Android app market pirates busted by FBI
Six Americans charged with large-scale piracy of Android apps. But what about their “customers”? Is there really an increased risk of malware from unlawfully acquired apps?
eBay’s StubHub ransacked for over $1 million, international crime ring arrested
US police have indicted six people across four countries on charges of defrauding eBay’s StubHub for over $1 million in pilfered tickets for things like Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake concerts. eBay says its servers weren’t broken into; rather, password reuse and account holders’ PCs being riddled with malware are to blame. 
SSCC 157 – Routers, Browsers, Zombies and Sysadmins [PODCAST]
Here it is…this week’s Chet Chat security podcast. In this episode: fixing routers, trusting browsers, killing zombies and showing TLC to sysadmins. 
It’s all about trust! 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Watch 60 Second Security for 19 July 2014 – it’s all about trust!
Notorious Shylock banking malware taken out by law enforcement
Law enforcement action led by the National Crime Agency (NCA) in the UK has knocked out the infrastructure of a banking malware known as Shylock, because of excerpts from Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice hidden in its code. Here’s how to check to make sure you weren’t among the more than 30,000 PCs that were infected.
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.
“Gameover” malware revival – is it really up from the canvas?.
Is the recent re-appearance of the Gameover malware a flash in the pan, or part of a concerted effort at reviving the threat? What do we need to do to knock it out altogether?