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Smashing Security #108: Hoaxes, Huawei and chatbots – with Mikko Hyppönen

Smashing Security #108: Hoaxes, Huawei and chatbots - with Mikko Hyppönen

The curious case of George Duke-Cohan, Huawei’s CFO finds herself in hot water, and the crazy world of mobile phone mental health apps.

All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by special guests Mikko Hyppönen from F-Secure and technology journalist Geoff White.

Graham Cluley

F-Secure’s Mikko Hypponen: George Orwell was an optimist

Finnish security firm F-Secure Labs recently released a Threat Report [pdf] for the first half of 2013; it shows “a continued rise in exploit-based attacks, particularly against Java, and an increasing sophistication in mobile threats.” Regarding exploits, the most common attack vector, “users in the U.S.
Ms. Smith’s blog

Flame could be warm-up act for next Stuxnet-style strike, warns Mikko Hypponen – V3.co.uk


V3.co.uk

Flame could be warm-up act for next Stuxnet-style strike, warns Mikko Hypponen
V3.co.uk
Tweet this. F-Secure analyst Mikko Hypponen. Another Stuxnet-level cyber strike on critical infrastructure such as nuclear power plants could follow the Flame malware family's cyber espionage campaign, according to F-Secure security chief Mikko Hypponen.
Making sense of Middle East-targeted malwareSC Magazine

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