SophosLabs researcher Gabor Szappanos is back. He presents another insightful installment in the ongoing saga of PlugX and other “malware factories” that are part of the Advanced Persistent Threat scene.
Tag Archives: Vulnerability
What’s SUPER and helps you to PHISH, sorry, FISH? 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here’s our weekly news roundup – from Superfish to Super Spectacles. It’s amusing, informative, and only takes a minute – enjoy!
Lenovo “Superfish” controversy – what you need to know
Controversy of the week is “Superfish,” an adware program pre-installed on Lenovo computers that has some worrying security problems. Here’s what you need to know, in plain English…
FreeBSD and the YARNBUG – more trouble at the Random Number Mill
How do you test your random number generator? How do you determine, in an ordered way, that a sequence of numbers is entirely disordered? With difficulty!
SSCC 186 – Just how firm is your firmware? [PODCAST]
Here’s the latest episode of our weekly security podcast – from firmware and Firefox to Project Zero and Lightning conductors. Chet and Duck are in fine fettle as usual…enjoy!
Google’s Project Zero backs off a bit – will now give up to 14 days’ grace
Google’s controversial “zero-day dropping machine,” Project Zero, which automatically outs your bugs after 90 days, will now give up to 14 day’s leeway.
News flash: hacker turns Apple’s Lightning connector into a jailbreak conductor
A French hacker says he’ll soon be making modified Lightning connector cables that will give Apple iOS jailbreakers a better view inside their iDevices.
What do you mean, “Facebook is now text only”? – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here’s the latest episode of our weekly one-minute security video. Fun, fast…and educational.
SSCC 185 – “I have a number for you: Eighty Million” [PODCAST]
Our weekly “Chet Chat” podcast is carefully prepared to fit into a quarter-hour, so it is clear and concise as well as being witty and amusing. Enjoy…
“Most adorable bug” – Raspberry Pi 2 crashes when you take a photo of it
It’s not buggy, it’s camera-shy! The tiny, budget Raspberry Pi faints when you flash a photo of it, and it’s likewise not keen on laser pointers.