All posts in Data loss

by Paul Ducklin Last week was aCropalypse week, where a bug in the Google Pixel image cropping app made headlines, and not just because it had a funky name. (We formed the opinion that the name was a little bit OTT, but we admit that if we’d thought of it . . . Read more

by Paul Ducklin Security holes in WordPress plugins that could allow other people to poke around your WordPress site are always bad news. Even if all you’re running is a basic setup that doesn’t have customer accounts and doesn’t collect or process any personal information such as names and email . . . Read more
23 Mar, 2023
aCropalypse, BTC, Cryptocurrency, cybercrime, Data loss, google, Microsoft, podcast, Security News, Vulnerability
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by Paul Ducklin DELETED DATA THAT JUST WON’T GO AWAY The mobile phone bugs that Google kept quiet, just in case. The mysterious case of ATM video uploads. When redacted data springs back to life. No audio player below? Listen directly on Soundcloud. With Paul Ducklin and Chester Wisniewski. Intro . . . Read more

by Paul Ducklin Just yesterday, we wrote about a bug in Google Pixel phones, apparently now patched, with potentially dangerous consequences. The bug finders, understandably excited (and concerned) by what they’d found, decided to follow the BWAIN principle for maximum, turning it into a Bug With An Impressive Name: aCropalypse. . . . Read more

by Paul Ducklin Even if you’ve never used one, you probably know what a VCR is (or was). Short for video cassette recorder, it was how we recorded and watched back videos at home in the days when digital video stored on hard disks was the absurdly expensive privilege of . . . Read more

by Paul Ducklin There are plenty of military puns in operating system history. Unix famously has a whole raft of personnel known as Major Number, who organise the batallions of devices such as disk drives, keyboards and webcams in your system. Microsoft once struggled with the apparently incompetent General Failure, . . . Read more
16 Mar, 2023
cybercrime, Data loss, Firefox, google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Naked Security Podcast, Outlook, patch tuesday, podcast, Privacy, Security News, SHEIN, Vulnerability
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by Paul Ducklin THE PRICE OF FAST FASHION Lucky Thirteen! The price of fast fashion. Firefox fixes. Feature creep fail curtailed in Patch Tuesday. No audio player below? Listen directly on Soundcloud. With Paul Ducklin and Chester Wisniewski. Intro and outro music by Edith Mudge. You can listen to us . . . Read more

It’s not exactly data theft, but it’s worrying close to “unintentional treachery” – apparently because it’s great for marketing purposes

Wondering which cybercrime tools, techniques and procedures to focus on? How about any and all of them?
02 Mar, 2023
2FA, Apple, Cryptography, cybercrime, Data loss, extortion, google, Hacking, lastpass, Law & order, Naked Security Podcast, podcast, Ransomware, Security News
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Rogue software packages. Rogue “sysadmins”. Rogue keyloggers. Rogue authenticators. Rogue ROGUES!