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
Friday the ThirteenthThe good news is that Google’s big-news global cloud outage of 2025-06-12 and 2025-06-13 (yes, that was Friday the Thirteenth) was sorted out within a few hours, a creditable response given the scale of the bug. The bad news, of course, is the point we just mentioned: the sheer scale of the bug. Intriguingly, the word sheer has two contrasting meanings, though both of them are metaphorically relevant in this case.
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1 month 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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1 month 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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2 months 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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RT @duckblog: And another one! An additional check has been added to improve the overflow protection yet further, so those version numbers…
Why have one bug when you can have a series? Check out my plain-English analysis of Google’s recent cloud outage and what you can learn from it… https://t.co/THz31tUmJc https://t.co/ReUQgOwrPa
And another one! An additional check has been added to improve the overflow protection yet further, so those version numbers are now 21.1.18 and 24.1.8…
Using Linux with a graphical interface (e.g. Xfce4, KDE or some other desktop)? Ensure xorg-server (if you use it) and xwayland (if you have it) are up to date! Versions 21.1.17 and 24.1.17 respectively just patched various memory and integer overflows… https://t.co/xg4Ven5piM