No sooner had we reported that Microsoft will adopt a “rolling update” model for Windows 10… …than we received notice of Apple’s latest “rolling update” for its Safari browser.
Tag Archives: Vulnerability
SSCC 197 – Could the LOVE BUG virus outbreak happen again? [PODCAST]
Listen to our latest podcast. From the end of Patch Tuesday to the likelihood of another virus outbreak like LOVE BUG, here’s news and discussion with plenty of sound advice…
Microsoft Word Intruder – the malware that writes new malware for you
Malware construction kits started in the 1990s as a way of expanding the virus-writing counterculture, but now they are all about money. SophosLabs looks at MWI, the Microsoft Word Intruder…
Bugs in the hospital: how to pwn your own pethidine machine
Feeling short-changed by the nurse in charge of your painkiller quota? Telnet into the drug dispenser! Paul Ducklin looks at how to avoid this sort of security hole…
SSCC 196 – From Wi-Fi bugs to carder busts [PODCAST]
From bugs to busts, here’s the latest episode of our weekly security news podcast – for your listening pleasure.
Remotely operated surgery robot is easy to e-hijack, researchers find
“Jerky” movement can be caused by tampering with packets. Not a good adjective when you’re talking about surgery!
RSA Conference 2015 in retrospect
We talk to Grey Howe, winner of Sophos’s “trip to RSA” competition on Spiceworks, about the funkiest and weirdest ideas from the talks…
That’s SHUTTING down your PC, not SHOOTING it down! 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Ever felt like shooting your PC? This guy did it! (And more news in our weekly one-minute security video.)
Wi-Fi security software chokes on network names, opens potential hole for hackers
The Wi-Fi security software “wpa_supplicant,” found in Android amongst many other places, has a potentially hackable security hole…
SSCC 195.5 – Did Google really say, “No more Android malware?” [PODCAST]
From “joined up security” to the suggestion that Google proclaimed the end of malware on Android, find out what’s happening at RSA 2015!