Paul Ducklin
Contributor at Naked Security
Freelance Writer at Freelance
Duck is a passionate security proselytiser. (That's like an evangelist, but more so!)
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1 week ago |
solcyber.com | Paul Ducklin
Farewell to SkypeRemember Skype? Before Zoom, Teams, WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Facetime and similar messaging and calling services, there was Skype. The software and service provided audio and video calls for free, provided that all participants used Skype’s proprietary software.
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2 weeks ago |
solcyber.com | Paul Ducklin
LISTEN NOWJoin Paul Ducklin and SolCyber CTO David Emerson as they talk about AI and cybersecurity in TALES FROM THE SOC. In this episode: Why does it sometimes sound as though no one ever thought of using AI in cybersecurity until now, even though it’s been an important part of the industry for years? Is the endless hype helping or hindering our fight against cybercrime?
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1 month ago |
solcyber.com | Paul Ducklin
Happy WPD (seriously)The thing about World Somethingorother Days is that there are so many to choose from. And the first Thursday in May, in a tradition going all the way back to the previous decade, is World Password Day, sometimes referred to as WPD for short.
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1 month ago |
solcyber.com | Paul Ducklin |Charles P. Ho
Fast Flux considered harmfulThe news wires have been full of stories about a cyberthreat dubbed Fast Flux, a jargon term invented in the first decade of this century, when the technique was both new and unusual. The term has largely dropped out of common use in recent years, but now it’s back, with the same frisson of danger that it had when it was new.
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1 month ago |
solcyber.com | Paul Ducklin |Hwei Oh |John London
News wires abuzzNews wires are abuzz with stories that after you install this Tuesday’s Microsoft updates (the April 2025 Patch Tuesday security fixes), you end up with a weird directory (or folder, if you prefer), at the top level of the C: drive, called C:\INETPUB. If you’ve ever used Microsoft’s old-school web server IIS, short for Internet Information Services, you’ll recognize that directory name as the starting point for the web server’s files.
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RT @duckblog: Apple iPhone user? iOS 18.5 is out with lots of fixes. No 0-days but several code execution holes. My personal favourite: a…
Apple iPhone user? iOS 18.5 is out with lots of fixes. No 0-days but several code execution holes. My personal favourite: a bug in FaceTime where muting the microphone “may not result in audio being silenced.” (An interesting way of putting it!) https://t.co/IOfyns8zI3
RT @duckblog: 𝗔𝗺𝗼𝘀'𝘀 𝗔𝗹𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗰: 𝘒𝘦𝘳𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 in just 40 words, from Amos and the ☀@SolCyberMSS team. More awesome articles on the ☀️@SolCy…