SSCC 62 – Sony, Apple malware and cloud security

Sophos Security Chet Chat logoPaul Ducklin of Sophos Australia joined me for the Chet Chat this week to talk about the weeks news. We also made some time at the end for the C-word (C-L-O-U-D).

First we talked about the large quantity of recent data breaches, primarily Sony. Paul had some rather good advice to those who think this might be a fun way to make a political statement… Don’t do it.

We also discussed whether the recent barrage of Mac malware has been a call for OS X users to take their heads out of the sand when it comes to securing their computers.

We had some feedback last week about a post Paul had made about a talk he was about to give on cloud security and our reader was disappointed that they weren’t in Sydney and would not be able to attend. This week we spent a few minutes discussing the cloud and ways it introduces risk and how you might use it more safely.

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(2 June 2011, duration 13:20 minutes, size 9.2MBytes)

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