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Monday 28 October 2013

SSCC 121 - WordPress, OS X, iCloud, smartphone tracking and medical devices [PODCAST]


By popular demand, the Chet Chat has gone back to a weekly format, so your favourite security podcast will now be appearing twice as frequently! Listen to Chet and Duck in the latest episode...
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2 years in federal prison for trash-searching student aid fraudster
A Florida man will go to prison for defrauding student aid accounts, while his two fellow-conspirators have been given probation and community sentences. The group's techniques should serve as a reminder that it's not just the information stored on our computers that we need to keep secure.
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Monday review - the hot 26 stories of the week
Missed anything last week? Catch up with everything we talked about with our weekly roundup.
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NSA: No we weren't hacked, we just broke our website
The official NSA website NSA.gov was offline for several hours on Friday, prompting immediate wild speculation that it had been taken down by a DDoS campaign.
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Is that a GUN, or are you just upgrading the printer? - 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Is that a gun, or are you just upgrading the printer? What if your iPhone has a bug in the lock that locks the lock screen? Will Chrome's continuing support for XP make us safer, or merely lazier? It'll only take 60 seconds to find out the answers!
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12-year-old Canadian boy admits to hacking police and government sites for Anonymous
The fifth grader from Montreal pleaded guilty to DDoS, website defacement and accessing databases by exploiting security holes. He wasn't politically motivated, his lawyer said, and swapped his ill-gotten information for video games.
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WordPress 3.7 with automatic security updating is out now
Wordpress 3.7 isn't important because it fixes any particularly devilish vulnerabilities but because, for the first time, it will automatically update itself with the latest maintenance and security releases - something that could change the security of the whole Wordpress ecosystem.
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Police discover 3D printer parts, suspect gun making factory
UK police thought they'd uncovered the 3D printing of gun parts - what they actually found were parts for printers. Embarrassing as this might be, their sensitivity is perhaps understandable - with 3D printers on sale for around £1,000 it could prove to be a stealthy and affordable means for...
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Developer's computer seized because he called himself a hacker
A US government contractor was given an order that allowed it to seize his hard drive without warning, largely because the ex-employee started a new software company whose site said "We like hacking things and we don’t want to stop."
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