August 08, 2023

Serious Security: Why learning to touch-type could protect you from audio snooping

Fast, quiet, smooth, consistent and low impact... why true hacker-grade touch-typing might keep you more secure.

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July 10, 2023

Serious Security: Rowhammer returns to gaslight your computer

Gaslights produce a telltale flicker when nearby lamps are lit; DRAM values do something similar when nearby memory cells are accessed.

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May 31, 2023

Serious Security: That KeePass “master password crack”, and what we can learn from it

Here, in an admittedly discursive nutshell, is the fascinating story of CVE-2023-32784. (Short version: Don't panic.)

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October 09, 2020

S3 Ep1: Ransomware – is it really OK to pay? [Podcast]

Our podcast is back for Series 3 - here's Episode 1!

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October 02, 2020

Serious Security: Phishing without links – when phishers bring along their own web pages

How do you "check the URL before you click" if the web page you're visiting is already on your own computer?

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September 11, 2020

Serious Security: Hacking Windows passwords via your wallpaper

Themes and wallpapers - how dangerous can they really be?

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December 25, 2019

Happy Holidays – and big thanks to everyone who’s working today!

Yes. there's a message in the Christmas tree.

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December 23, 2019

Serious Security: The decade-ending “Y2K bug” that wasn’t

We explain why you really need to RTFM. Even if TFM is very long and complicated and you are very experienced.

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December 09, 2019

Serious Security: Understanding how computers count

The hard disks that fail abruptly at 32,768 hours of use - why simply 'adding 1' can send you into oblivion.

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