S3 Ep22: Cryptographic escapes and social media scams [Podcast]
Lastest episode – listen now. (And tell your friends!) Source: Naked Security Sophos New feed
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Nvidia’s Anti-Cryptomining GPU Chip May Not Discourage Attacks
The hotly anticipated GeForce RTX 3060, a ray-tracing-friendly, advanced gaming graphics chip, will also throttle Ethereum mining. Source: Threatpost.com
Continue ReadingLet’s Encrypt Gears Up to Replace 200M Certificates a Day
The open CA prepares for ‘worst scenarios’ with new fiber, servers, cryptographic signing and more. Source: Threatpost.com
Continue ReadingS3 Ep19: Chrome zero-day, coffee hacking and Perl.com stolen [Podcast]
Latest episode (includes 111,848 “free” cups of coffee) – listen now! Source: Naked Security Sophos New feed
Continue ReadingS3 Ep18: Apple emergency, crypto blunder and botnet takedown [Podcast]
New episode – listen now! Source: Naked Security Sophos New feed
Continue ReadingFree coffee! Belgian researcher hacks prepaid vending machines
Only try this at home, folks! As easy as it might look, it’s illegal in the wild, with good reason. Source: Naked Security Sophos New feed
Continue ReadingCrypto Crook Hired Steven Seagal to Promote Scam, Now Faces Charges
Feds charged California-based private detective for stealing $11M from investors, with help from actor Steven Seagal. Source: Threatpost.com
Continue ReadingSolarWinds Hack Prompts Congress to Put NSA in Encryption Hot Seat
Congress is demanding the National Security Agency come clean on what it knows about the 2015 supply-chain attack against Juniper Networks. Source: Threatpost.com
Continue ReadingCritical Libgcrypt Crypto Bug Opens Machines to Arbitrary Code
The flaw in the free-source library could have been ported to multiple applications. Source: Threatpost.com
Continue ReadingGnuPG crypto library can be pwned during decryption – patch now!
Many, if not most, Linux distros will be affected. Users of other operating systems should check for software that uses libgcrypt. Source: Naked Security Sophos New feed
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