Canada goes “opt in”, NYC makes a hash, and Brazil forgets its punctuation. It’s 60 Second Security for 28 June 2014!
Tag Archives: Spam
SSCC 153: TrueCrypt, Towelroot, Cryptowall, and spam in Canada [PODCAST]
Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin present this week’s edition of the regular Sophos security podcast, the “Chet Chat.” In this episode: the TrueCrypt saga continues; the Towelroot software for unlocking Androids; ransomware after CryptoLocker; and Canada’s long, long, long-awaited anti-spam law.
37% of Canadian Justice Department fail phishing awareness test
An in-house awareness test run late last year at Department of Justice Canada has revealed that a good percentage of its employees are for the most part fairly easy to trick with phishing scams. 
Spam in Canada goes “strictly opt-in” in one week – with only THREE YEARS to comply
It’s been a long, long, long time coming, but spam in Canada really does go “strictly opt-in” on this year’s Canada Day, 01 July 2014. After that, you will have a meagre THREE YEARS to adapt your business practices and acquire express consent from your mailees…
Microsoft and Adobe have 0-days, AOL breached, and we win an award! 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Are two zero-days better than one? What happened to AOL’s user database? And is that another award that Naked Security just won? Find out in 60 Sec Security for 03 May 2014…
AOL Mail accounts breached, users advised to change passwords
AOL users, change your passwords. AOL said it is investigating a large-scale breach of AOL Mail accounts in which user passwords, security questions, mail addresses, and contact lists were compromised.