The GHOST in the machine – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]

So it does. I just turned on “Safety mode” myself and…poof…”The GHOST in the Machine” vanished. That makes about as little sense as you can possibly imagine…below is a transcript so you can judge for yourself how shocking the content is for minors.

I suppose we shall have to appeal to Google, or something. Thanks for the heads-up. Appreciated.

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Hello, everybody. I’m Paul Ducklin, and this is 60 Second Security.

Our latest SPAMPIONSHIP is out, showing where you’ll find the infected computers that send most of the world’s spam. For years the US led by volume, but this time, China took first place. The per person table, which is the one that really matters, was topped by South Korea.

An Aussie security researcher pwned his security-conscious Blackphone by sending it a dodgy text message. Note to programmers: when you’re done with a block of memory, memset() it to zero. Data that isn’t there can’t end up where it shouldn’t.

And the big story of the week is GHOST, a security hole in the GNU C Library. Glibc is part of most Linux distributions, and is used by most Linux programs, so you probably need a patch. Please check with your vendor or your distro.

[FX: BELL RINGS] And that’s a minute up. Thanks for listening, folks, and until next time, stay secure.

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